The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – Adalah – filed a petition with the Supreme Court against the Jewish nation-state law less than a month after its enactment, on August 7, 2018. The petition was filed against the Knesset, which is currently being considered by the Israeli Supreme Court, on behalf of the entire Arab political leadership in Israel: the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, the National Committee of Arab Mayors, the Joint List parliamentary faction, and in the name of Adalah. Adalah’s petition stresses that “a law that denies the civil and national rights of Palestinians in their homeland is a racist, colonialist and illegitimate law.” Adalah added that the law of the Jewish state in Israel guarantees the ethnic-religious character of Israel as exclusively Jewish and entrenches the privileges enjoyed by Jewish citizens while simultaneously anchoring discrimination against Palestinian citizens and legitimizing exclusion, racism, and systemic inequality. Regarding collective rights and the status of the Arabic language, the petitioners said that “the national law, in contravention of international law, does not recognize any collective right for Arabs as a national minority, in exchange for recognition of a large number of exclusive collective rights for Jews.” To check the news, click here