The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, is expected to advance the so-called “Jewish State bill” - also referred to as the “Nationality” or “Nation State bill" - next month according to Israeli media, amid ongoing controversies over the bill’s discrimination of Palestinian citizens of Israel. A committee established to promote the bill would be given two consecutive sessions next month, despite the Knesset being in recess during that time. The bill declares that Israel is “the national home of the Jewish people,” and that “the right to realize self-determination in Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”
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