information referred to in Article Israel: New Laws marginalized Palestinian Arab Citizens international human rights organization Human Rights Watch on new discriminatory laws in Israel which, in its entirety in English can be read on the link .
Human Rights Watch said in a statement said that 2 new Israeli law pertaining to Palestinian citizens Israel to promote discrimination and stifle freedom of expression. One of these laws empower the rural, the majority of the Jewish community to decide whether the Palestinian citizens of Israel and other "unsuitable" candidates may or may not reside in their community, while the other seeks to stifle free expression on the key event in the history of Palestinian citizens.
Instead of working to eliminate the glaring inequalities, the Israeli parliamentarians adopted discriminatory laws that control who can live where and impose a single version of the history of Israel, it is approved by the government.
Both laws were passed in the Knesset 23rd March 2011. One official authorizing "committees of Immigration" in about 300 major Jewish communities to reject the possibility of housing applicants who do not meet the vague criteria of "social suitability". In this way, and supported the practice of law in which the unjust refuse requests Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, but also members of other socially marginalized groups such as Jews neeuropskog backgrounds and single parent families.
other law to impose severe penalties each institution financed by the government, including municipalities and cities that provide services for health and education, to mark "Nakba" - Arabic term that describes the destruction of Palestinian villages and the expulsion of their residents after the Israeli declaration of independence - and for "denying the existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state".
Under the "Committee for Immigration," anyone who wants to move to any community in the Negev and the Galilee area in which she lives less than 400 families must obtain a permit by the Board consisting of local residents, one members of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization and others. The law gives the boards the authority to reject candidates who, among other things, "not suitable way of life for the community "or" might damage the structure of the community. " These communities already have such committees established in accordance with the regulations of the Israeli government land, government agencies, which they rented land.
Although the Negev and Galilee, the Palestinian Arabs are the majority population, the state has never allocated the land in order for it to establish their own community these Israeli citizens. All cities and communities to which the new law have been established to have a majority Jewish population.
Statement MPs suggest that the law is intended to allow the Jewish majority communities to retain its current demographic composition of excluding the Palestinian Arab citizens, which constitutes discrimination based on race, ethnicity and national origin.
Lawmakers inserted a provision in the law that prohibits committees nominally to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, ethnicity or disability. However, the criteria for exclusion that the law has lead to exactly to what is alleged prohibited discrimination to enable committees to camouflage vague criterion of "appropriateness" of candidates "social features" of the community.
In a previous case The Supreme Court has already ruled against discrimination in property rights. In this case, one village refused an Arab-Israeli pair to allow move in because the village was established on land that Israel has hired the Jewish Agency, which rented the land is not the gentiles. Most land in Israel is a state-owned and rented for a period of 49 or 98 years.
Act states that the unique "characteristics" of each community to be "codified" and that rejecting candidates are entitled to an explanation.
In one case the refusal of a kibbutz an Arab-Israeli pair justified by the criterion for acceptance new residents that they can become members of the World Zionist Organization and served in the Israeli army. A very small number of Palestinian citizens of Israel to perform military service.
Committee in another country asks for candidates to accept the values \u200b\u200bof the Charter of the village, including "Zionism" and "Jewish tradition".
second law, adopted in the Knesset, with 37 votes for and 25 against, allows the government to punish any institution financed by the state if it is marked "nakba" - a historic event in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinian inhabitants of the area that is now Israel, refugees, while their villages were destroyed in the conflict following the declaration of independence Israel in 1948. year. Can also be penalized institutions that "deny the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state".
Palestinian MPs in Israeli parliament, leaders of social organizations and civil society organizations many times expressed the view that the definition of Israel as a "Jewish state" marginalize and exclude Palestinian citizens.
Act allows the Minister of Finance in consultation with other financial officials eliminate government funding of such institutions in an amount 3 times greater than the amount concerned institutions spent on "illegal" activities.
term "institution" is not defined in law, but states that the law applies to any entity which is funded by the state. In danger of losing their state funding by cities and municipalities, schools and theaters that present performances or films about the nakba, and cultural organizations that promote coexistence and understanding through the joint efforts of Jewish and Arab Israeli students in commemorating Israel's Independence Day, but also "nakba".
"Attempts to punish non-violent expression of opinion Israelis who receive state funds insult to the Palestinian citizens of Israel and the threat to freedom of expression ", according to Human Rights Watch. "Since the Israeli government has the right of Israeli citizens to speak what they can say about history?"
punishment under the laws of the nakba could harm the rights of other citizens, because state funds received by municipalities and towns who care about health care, housing, education and other services for its population.
Government of the Arab cities and municipalities and other institutions, says that, if not stop talking about nakba and everything else that bureaucrats are considered anti-Israeli, will have to abolish their programs and services due to lack of funds. In democracies, freedom of expression should not inhibit, even though it was unpopular positions and, in this case unpopular legislators declared the central historical event for a million and half citizens.
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