Israel's 2018 Nation-State Law: The Zionist Apartheid Manifesto

The Institute for Palestine Studies presents you with its latest instalment of Current Issues in Depth. Dr. Anis Kassim investigates Israel’s Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, enacted in July 2018 by the Israeli regime. In part I of this two-part study, Kassim outlines the legislative history of the law, which functions as a would-be constitutional law, in the absence of a formal Israeli constitution. Following a discussion of the law’s contents, Kassim delves into its five fundamental doctrines. By examining Israel’s foundational laws along with a series of sub- sequent court cases, the analysis demonstrates how the law is designed to afford rights to nationality, return, residence, and territory exclusively to Jews, ultimately at the expense of the Palestinians, who were expelled or came under Israeli rule in 1948 and 1967.