The Nation-State Law (2018), officially titled “Israel - The Nation-State of the Jewish People”, is an Israeli Basic Law—akin to a constitutional amendment—that formally elevates the rights of Jewish citizens (and non-citizens) over Palestinian citizens of Israel and other population groups.[1] The law contains a raft of discriminatory clauses that in many cases simply enshrine existing Israeli policies and practices in the law.[2] For example, it declares Israel to be the state of “the Jewish people” and claims “Jewish settlement as a national value”, it explicitly denies the right of self-determination to non-Jews, and adopts Hebrew as an official language above Arabic.
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