{"id":308620,"date":"2017-05-17T20:33:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T19:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jewish-nation-state-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T20:33:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T19:33:36","slug":"jewish-nation-state-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jewish-nation-state-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Nation-State Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the \u201cnational home of the Jewish people.\u201d Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes back to the foundation of the state, the new law also carries clear discriminatory elements that target the country\u2019s Arab communities, numbering nearly two million people.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Jewish Nation-State Bill\u2019 is the latest concoction of Israel\u2019s right wing Zionist Jewish parties, which have dominated Israeli politics for years. With the Israeli \u2018Left\u2019 rendered irrelevant, or has itself moved to the right, the right wing elements of Israel are now the supreme rulers of that country.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/democracy\">strict definition<\/a>, Israel is, at best, an inadequate \u2018democracy\u2019 or a democracy for Jews only, although it has promoted itself for decades as the \u2018Middle East\u2019s only democracy\u2019. Like other Middle Eastern governments, Israel uses all the right sounding words and phrases, but its political system is neither fair nor representative of all citizens regardless of race, ethnicity or religion.<\/p>\n<p>In some way, Israel behaves as if Palestinian Arabs \u2013 Christian or Muslim \u2013 do not exist. Whether citizens of Israel or the occupied Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank or besieged Gaza, they are all, to varied degrees, invisible to Israel\u2019s political system.<\/p>\n<p>While so-called Israeli Arabs enjoy a semblance of rights \u2013 a fact that is often underscored by Israel as a proof of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/05\/jewish-nation-state-bill\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the \u201cnational home of the Jewish people.\u201d Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes back to the foundation of the state, the new law also carries clear discriminatory elements that target the country\u2019s Arab communities, numbering nearly two million people. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}