AP / Yahoo News: Israeli Cabinet moves to define Israel as Jewish (Only further codifies what has always been true. The breathtaking hypocrisy is that Jews across the world charge that trying to oppose open borders and preserve majority White Gentile nations is rabid 'hate,' 'intolerance,' and 'xenophobia.')

Israeli Cabinet moves to define Israel as Jewish



JERUSALEM (AP) — In a move likely to further inflame tensions with Israel's Arab citizens, the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved a bill to legally define the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

The decision, which set off a stormy debate that could bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's brittle coalition government, followed weeks of deadly Arab-Jewish violence and was denounced by critics as damaging to the country's democratic character and poorly timed at such a combustible moment.

It now heads toward a full parliamentary vote on Wednesday.

Israel has always defined itself as the "Jewish state" — a term that was contained in the country's declaration of independence in 1948. The new law seeks to codify that status as a "Basic Law," Israel's de facto constitution. ...

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