A Law That Tells the Truth About 'Israel'
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A Law That Tells the Truth About Israel
By Gideon Levy
THE KNESSET legislated one of its most important laws ever, and the one most in keeping with reality. The nation-state law puts an end to Israel’s vague nationalism and presents Zionism as it is. The law also put an end to the farce about Israel being “Jewish and democratic,” a combination that never existed and could never exist because of the inherent contradiction between the two values that cannot be reconciled, except by deception.
If the state is Jewish, it cannot be democratic, because of the lack of equality; if it’s democratic, it cannot be Jewish, because a democracy does not bestow privilege based on ethnicity. So now the Knesset has decided: Israel is Jewish. Israel is declaring that it is the nation-state of the ...