Commentary on Israel's Nation‑State Law and Its Democratic Implications

¢ A few sentences on the “nation- state law’. This is a redundant and even harmful law. In general, and particularly at this point. To our friends it signals that Israel is losing its self- confidence regarding the obvious — namely,its unique identity as the Jewish-democratic state as reflected by the "Declaration of Independence". To our enemies it provides an effective tool to make Israel a suspect— of being a country that's willingly drifting away from the norms of democracy — as a preliminary step towards institutionalized discrimination. And one has to wonder: what was wrong with what we had until this point? What's wrong with the "Declaration of Independence"? Who needs this? And why? HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029385