{"id":10621,"date":"2019-03-04T23:44:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/03\/04\/everything-youve-heard-about-israels-nation-state-bill-is-wrong"},"modified":"2019-03-04T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:44:08","slug":"everything-youve-heard-about-israels-nation-state-bill-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/03\/04\/everything-youve-heard-about-israels-nation-state-bill-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You\u2019ve Heard About Israel\u2019s Nation State Bill Is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by\u00a0David Hazony, the executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund, <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/406355\/everything-youve-heard-about-israels-nation-state-bill-is-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this thorough article from The Forward <\/a>defends Israel&#8217;s Nation-State Law, arguing that it is comprised of mostly symbolic declarations that simply reaffirm the core purpose of the country: building a Jewish homeland through sovereignty, culture and settlement. Hazony shows how the most controversial laws are either not new, not unique to Israel, or completely logical in a Jewish state, reminding readers that the individual rights of Israel&#8217;s citizens are already guaranteed through other Basic Laws. Finally, Hazony examines the historical and constitutional context of the law, including the rise of post-Zionism and Israel&#8217;s &#8220;constitutional\u00a0revolution,&#8221; which has given other Basic Laws ensuring Israel&#8217;s democratic\u00a0character\u00a0constitutional status, while no law at this level guarantee&#8217;s Israel&#8217;s Jewish character.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by\u00a0David Hazony, the executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund, this thorough article from The Forward defends Israel&#8217;s Nation-State Law, arguing that it is comprised of mostly symbolic declarations that simply reaffirm the core purpose of the country: building a Jewish homeland through sovereignty, culture and settlement. Hazony shows how the most controversial laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":8920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2539],"tags":[2535,2687,2686,2409,2423,2537],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8920\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}