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Israel: High Court is not expected to strike down Jewish Nation-State Law December 23, 2020 at 4:48 pm | Published in: Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine
Thousands of demonstrators from the Druze community stage a protest against the “Jewish Nation-State” law that was approved last month by the Israel’s parliament, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on August 04, 2018 [Daniel Bar On / Anadolu Agency] December 23, 2020 at 4:48 pm
After hearing a series of fifteen petitions on Tuesday against Israel s Jewish Nation-State Law, the High Court of Justice is not expected to strike down the racist legislation, Dr Hassan Jabareen, the founder and executive director of Adalah rights group, has said.
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Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and justices arrive to hear petitions against the Jewish Nation-State Law, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The High Court heard a landmark challenge on Tuesday to a controversial 2018 law that defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Proponents of the law have argued that the legislation merely enshrines existing reality. “This is a fundamental law, which safeguards Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people,” Likud MK Avi Dichter, who sponsored the law, told reporters from the Arabic-language Hala TV outside the courtroom.
But critics have argued that the so-called Nation-State Law contravenes the basis of Israel’s legal system, as well as its Declaration of Independence, and solidifies inequality among its citizens.