Israel’s Nation-State Law and the Hysteria of the Western Media
What’s undemocratic? Anything we don’t like!
August 17, 2018
What’s undemocratic? Anything we don’t like!
Nearly a month after it was passed by the Knesset, the new Basic Law defining Israel as “the nation-state of the Jewish people” is still causing outrage in the American and European press. The attacks, however, are almost uniformly incommensurate with this largely symbolic law, whose text, in the English translation found on the Knesset website, is barely over 400 words in length. Matthew Continetti comments:
What’s undemocratic? Anything we don’t like!
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A theory based on a mistranslation.
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Nearly a month after it was passed by the Knesset, the new Basic Law defining Israel as “the nation-state of the Jewish people” is still causing outrage in the American and European press. The attacks, however, are almost uniformly incommensurate with this largely symbolic law, whose text, in the English translation found on the Knesset website, is barely over 400 words in length. Matthew Continetti comments:
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