Since the Nation State Law Passed its First Supreme Court Test…

Yesterday afternoon (8.7.2021), the left-wing Haaretz published a surprisingly balanced report of the Supreme Court denial of a petition to strike the Nation State Law (NSL) from the book of statutes. Now that the NSL is etched indelibly into the fabric of our legal system, we can look at it more dispassionately and understand why […]

Carmiel: What has the Nation State Law to do with Taking Kids to School?

Sensationalizing an issue is something we expect of news sites and Times of Israel did not disappoint; however, we do not expect the courts to cause a sensation when the issue should be a simple one to adjudicate. The issue: Arab families living in Carmiel who want their children to study in an Arab school, […]

Ibrahim Saïd: Getting it right when trying to wrong Israel

I find it amusing when an article, such as that by Ibrahim Saïd, sets out to bash Israel but then explains Israel quite well and shows that the author understands what we are really all about. And then he uses this as if it is a bad thing. * * * * * We should […]

Nation State Law: Arab IDF Commander-in-Chief? Arab Prime Minister?

In his article in Yisrael Hayom, law professor Dr Shaul Sharf asks an interesting question against the background of the Knesset vote last Wednesday (July 29) rejecting a bill to amend the two-year-old Law. Sharf asks: does the existence on the books of Israel’s Nation State Law make having an Arab IDF Commander-in-Chief a good […]

Ammunition Against the Nation State Law: What Adalah Missed

Adalah is challenging the Nation State Law in Israel’s Supreme Court, claiming that the law is racist. The legal minds behind the petition claim that: There is no [other] constitution in the world today containing a clause that determines that the state belongs to one ethnic group or that a given state is exclusive to […]

Ouch! The Nation-State Law and the Druze

What do you do when you love your country and feel so woven into its fabric and then the threads begin to unravel? Sitting before Safwan Mreeh in a new coffee shop in Daliyat-el-Carmel, I began to get a deep sense of what seems to be the experience of many of the Druze around us. […]