• GrayoxOP
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      1 year ago

      Israel passed a controversial new “nation-state law” last week that’s sparking both celebration and fierce debate over the very nature of Israel itself.

      The law does three big things:

      It states that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people."

      It establishes Hebrew as Israel’s official language, and downgrades Arabic — a language widely spoken by Arab Israelis — to a “special status.”

      It establishes “Jewish settlement as a national value” and mandates that the state “will labor to encourage and promote its establishment and development.”

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      • MxM111
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        01 year ago

        None of those undermines any rights of Arab Israelis, even though the promotion of the settlements is quite problematic, but for different reasons.

        • @CriticalMiss
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          11 year ago

          You claimed they have equal rights.

          It states that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people.”

          Clearly, there’s a right that’s reserved to one ethnicity only.

          • MxM111
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            01 year ago

            That only means things like Hebrew being state language and recognition of national heritage history. Like French language and history in France. I do not hear anything implemented from that time that violate what I said.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Far from being ethnostate, the Arab citizens enjoy equal rights and protections from the state.

      Are you blatantly lying or are you just incredibly misinformed?