Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People Quotes
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“Arab-Israeli conflict”
“This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.”
“Today, we see what happens when the government doesn't have a solution facing Gaza – all it can offer are racist laws.”
“You are weak people, only a country that isn’t normal acts this way. No apartheid law will erase the fact that in this homeland there are two nations.”
“Hebrew page on the Israeli Ministry of Justice website.”
“This is a law that encourages not only discrimination, but racism as well. ... The result of this legislation will be to perpetuate the inferior status of the Arabs in Israel.”
“Those who claim this law is racist is like someone who claims Zionism is racism — no less.”
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“The real score we need to settle is with those elected by the public [Knesset members] who know deep inside how much the nation-state bill is going to tarnish the Israeli law book – and remain silent nonetheless.”
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“Its only purpose is to send a message to the Arab community, the LGBT community and other minorities in Israel, that they are not and never will be equal citizens.”
“The basic law that advanced today is not a basic law on nationality but a basic law of racism. This is a law that was born in sin and advanced through arm-twisting among the extremist and nationalist elements in the coalition.”
“If passed, it will create a dangerous precedent for democracy in Israel, it is a 180-degree turn from Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which enshrines freedom and democracy for all Israelis. This bill would instead upend democratic norms and create an Israel that is unequal. It is a grave threat to Israeli democracy.”
“Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People (in English), full text on the Israeli Ministry of Justice website.”
“The wording of the current bill and the way it was passed is harmful because it does not include the basic tenets and the basic components of the Jewish state as they have been defined over the past 70 years, a commitment to Israel as a Jewish and a democratic state, based on the values of the Declaration of independence, this commitment, this phrase does not appear in the legislation.”
“Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people, which honors the individual rights of all its citizens, I repeat this is our state. The Jewish state. Lately, there are people who are trying to destabilize this and therefore destabilize the foundations of our existence and our rights, so today we have made a law in stone. This is our country. This is our language. This is our anthem and this is our flag. Long live the state of Israel.”
“While the earlier wording pretended to be neutral, stating that separate communities were possible for each group, now the cat is out of the bag and it’s stating explicitly that only Jewish communities will get priority. This is a model of undisguised racism, suited only to corrupt rulers who have lost all shame.”
“The coalition’s insistence on not adopting compromise versions keeping Arabic as an official language prove that the nation-state law wants to base the Jewish character of the State of Israel on deepening the exclusion of the Arab populace.”
“Today, I will have to tell my children, along with all the children of Palestinian Arab towns in the country, that the state has declared that it does not want us here. ... It has passed a law of Jewish supremacy and told us that we will always be second-class citizens.”