Natalie Portman says Israel’s nation-state law is ‘racist’
Director-actress Natalie Portman has recently spoken out against Israel’s controversial nation-state law.
Diamond: Israel’s nation-state law is necessary, despite its flaws
The clumsy way in which it was implemented is unfortunate, because it has offered our enemies more fodder for their attacks on Israel.
Roytenberg: An attack on Israel’s minorities
According to David Roytenberg, Israel’s government must listen to the voices of members of Israel’s minority groups and reconsider the wisdom of the Basic Law.
Troy: The right idea in the wrong bill at the wrong time
Politics is all about perception and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government certainly should have been much more sensitive. It should have built a broad consensus behind the nation-state bill, which becomes a de facto part of Israel’s constitution, by playing to Israel’s best self and by reassuring the worried – not by riling up the yahoos and passing it by the narrowest of margins.
Shvili: Israel’s new Basic Law wastes time
Jason Shvili argues that Israel’s new Basic Law doesn’t change the status quo at all.
What’s so wrong about J Street’s opposition to the nation-state law?
Richard S. Levy takes issue with Barbara Kay’s criticism of J Street.
Tour confirmed we can criticize Israel because we care about it
In addition to societal challenges and violence, we witnessed great hope in the souls of the people who fight for human and equal rights in Israel. Their hope was not only contagious, it was concrete.
Kay: The scorpion in the Jewish world’s fire
When I consider the scourge of anti-Semitism in its present anti-Israel form, I often remember the scorpion from the Raj Quartet. Israel is small but powerful and rightly feared for its sting when attacked. It is ringed by external enemies, but it is also threatened by the venom produced within its own body.
Murane: Nation-state law is a threat to Israel’s democratic security
Authored by extreme elements of the governing coalition, the new law aims to legalize wholesale discrimination between types of Jews and against Arab citizens.