Basic Law: Israel, Nation State of the Jewish People Bill – 2013

The purpose of this private member’s bill is to constitutionally determine the identity of the State of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. In practice, the bill will change the ‘Jewish and democratic’ definition of the state by subordinating the democratic component and making it secondary to the Jewish component. The bill states that the right to national self-determination in Israel belongs exclusively to the Jewish people. Because the proposed legislation has the status of a basic law, its enactment could be used to justify widespread discrimination against Arab citizens of Israel, as non-Jews.