The Nakba Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Law

by spacebuffer • 2 years ago

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Aerbil313• 2 years ago

  The law affects organizations which are funded, in whole or in part, by the Israeli government.

  It declares that the Minister of Finance is authorized to withhold transfer of state funds, if the primary goal of the funds spent was to do one of the following:

   1. Denying the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State
   2. Incitement of racism, violence, or terrorism
   3. Supporting armed conflict or acts of terror, of an enemy state or a terror organization, against the State of Israel
   4. Referring to the Israeli Independence Day or the founding day of the country as a day of mourning
   5. An act of vandalism or physical debasement of the flag or symbols of the state

  In 2019, Tel Aviv University cancelled a lecture by the politician Ofer Cassif, citing the law as the reason. This was the first instance of an academic institution heeding this law.

From Wikipedia:

  The Nakba (Arabic: النَّكْبَة an-Nakba, lit. 'the catastrophe') was the ethnic cleansing[1] of Palestinians in Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 Palestine war through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society, and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations.[1]

So by definition, no Palestinian who lives in the state of Israel (who views Nakba as what it is) can be funded by the Israeli government for any purpose. That's very double-plus-ungood.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba.

delichon• 2 years ago

The law affects organizations which are funded, in whole or in part, by the Israeli government.

So it's a formalization of an older law: He who pays the piper calls the tune.

AnimalMuppet• 2 years ago

No, no Palestinian who lives in the state of Israel can be funded by the Israeli government to do one of those five things. They can still be funded to do other things - all other things. They just can't be funded to do those things with government money.

Seems pretty reasonable to me...

The Nakba Law

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