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[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Israel isn’t a democracy. They even stopped pretending in 2018 when they passed the Nation-State law and officially became an apartheid state. Parts of the law say:

  • “The right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”
  • “The state views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation.”
  • It also made Hebrew the official language downgraded Arabic to a language that could be accommodated.

It’s like considering the U.S. a democracy before the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. (America still wasn’t a modern democracy at that point because of Jim Crow laws but at least Native Americans were theoretically considered citizens instead of a separate people who lived in special zones.)

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