Summary
The Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People, approved by the Knesset on July 19, 2018, which Palestine: A Socialist Introduction treats as enshrining three tenets of Zionism in Israel’s constitutional Basic Laws (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 374-378, line 286).
Details
- The three tenets as the book lists them: the right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people; the state language is officially Hebrew, with Arabic downgraded to a language with special status; and the state views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation (lines 374-378).
- Moshe Machover is quoted on the law that it attempts to legitimise the Zionist state as the nation-state of a worldwide Jewish nation rather than as the political expression of its own citizens (lines 374-378).
- The Timeline entry for 2018 pairs the law’s adoption with the start of the Great March of Return and the closing of PLO offices in Washington (line 286).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Zionism, Moshe Machover, Great March of Return, Self-determination