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Yisrael Medad
August 15, 2018
It’s all about eliminationism
There is two-stage subversion project at work against Israel and its Zionist-base ideology. The first stage seeks to cozy up, in a sense, and to equalize, falsely, two movements: Zionism and Palestinianism.
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Martin Sherman
July 22, 2018
The Nationality Law brouhaha: The failing of Jewish national will?
Israel will only be democratic if it is Jewish, and it will only be Jewish if it is Zionist. Therefore, it will only be democratic if it is Zionist—i.e., if it is the nation-state of the Jewish people
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Jonathan S. Tobin
July 20, 2018
What do we expect from a Jewish state?
Anger about the new nation-state law is misplaced. Concern over the rabbinate flexing its muscles and contempt for the Diaspora is not.
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Israel Hayom
Amnon Lord
July 20, 2018
If not Jewish, Israel would not be democratic
At this stage, the new law does nothing more than apply the brakes to a car that was skidding down the slope of binationalism.
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Yisrael Medad
July 20, 2018
The nation-state law came just in time
If the concessionists base themselves on the demographic threat (it doesn’t exist, but for argument’s sake, we’ll assume it does) and that “threat” will undermine Israel’s “Jewish character,” why would they oppose a law that strengthens that character?
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Knesset makes it official: Israel is a Jewish state
Josh Hasten
July 19, 2018
The bill now holds weight as one of Israel’s “Basic Laws,” the highest level of legal authority, being that Israel has no official constitution.
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Nationality Law passes vote, Israel enshrined as a Jewish state with Jerusalem as its capital
July 19, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrated the new law as “a pivotal moment in the annals of Zionism and the State of Israel.”
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Controversial Nationality Bill approved for second and third Knesset readings
July 18, 2018
The vote was taken from members of the House Committee and the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, and passed 8-7.
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Lawmaker draws fury for urging Arab families to move into Jewish towns
Gideon Allon
Israel Hayom
July 16, 2018
Right-wing politicians call Knesset member Ahmad Tibi “populist” and “hypocritical,” and back a measure that allows Jewish communities to keep non-Jews out.
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EU ambassador reprimanded, for second time, for ‘interfering with Israeli legislation’
Yossi Lempkowicz
EJP
July 13, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the Foreign Ministry Director General to summon the E.U. ambassador for a second reprimand and also intends to take additional steps.
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Arabic may no longer share equal official status with Hebrew in bill amendment
July 9, 2018
“In recent years, the country has turned into a nation of all its people, all of its infiltrators,” said Israel Tourism Minister Yariv Levin. “Everything that has to do with Jewish life became some sort of issue of inequality and discrimination. This is what the legislation seeks to fix.”
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