Nazi regime Illegally Enshrines Apartheid in Its “Basic Law”
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Israel Illegally Enshrines Apartheid in Its “Basic Law”
Demonstrators attend a rally to protest against the "Jewish Nation-State Bill" in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, on July 14, 2018.JACK GUEZ / AFP / GETTY IMAGES
BY: Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
Human Rights and Global Wrongs
On July 19, 2018, the Israeli Knesset enacted a law that illegally enshrines a system of apartheid. The legislation, which has the force of a constitutional amendment, strips away any pretense that Israel is a democracy. Moreover, it violates customary and treaty-based international law.
The “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People” says, “The State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, in which it fulfills its natural, cultural, religious and hist...