Israel

Nationalist Constitutionalism – Israel’s High Court and the Jewish Nation Law

In this post Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University, discusses the significance of the recent decision by Israel’s High Court of Justice to uphold Basic Law: Israel – the Nation State of the Jewish People.

On December 22, 2020, Israel’s Hight Court of Justice (HCJ) upheld by a 10:1 majority (with George Kara, the only Arab justice on the court, dissenting) Basic Law: Israel – the Nation State of the Jewish People (known, for short, as the Jewish nation law), enacted in 2018 (HCJ 5555/18). The law stated, inter alia, that

Normalizing the One-State Reality

Yoav Peled

On September 15, 2020, Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain signed “normalization” agreements at the White House, bringing to light barely hidden economic, political and military relations that had been going on for several decades. Formalizing these relations, under the auspices of President Trump, is significant, however, because it is yet another manifestation of the abandonment of the Palestinian cause by the Arab countries and of the obsolescence of the two-state solution (TSS) to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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