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The Importance of the Nation State Law
Why do we need a Nation State Law? For over 70 years, the state of Israel has been able to run its affairs successfully without the need for such...
Why All the Outrage over Israel’s Nation-State Law?
After working its way through the Knesset for years, Israel’s nation-state law, whose official title is Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, finally passed on...
The proof is in the protest
Asking demonstrators at Saturday’s so-called “protest for equality” not to wave Palestinian flags was a reasonable request, to be sure. Palestine is there, on the mountain, where demonstrators believe...
The alternative to the nation-state law
An entire generation of legislative silence came to an end with the enactment of the nation-state law. The Knesset finally made a clear ethical statement: “The State of Israel is...
A Zionist constitutional revolution
The likely passage of the nation-state bill is the most important Zionist development to be inserted into Israel’s lawbooks since the Law of Return was passed in 1950. The...
Get Over It—Israel Is the Jewish State
Let the hand-wringing and denunciations begin. On Thursday Israel finally expressed in constitutional law the basic achievement of Zionism: Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people. In the...