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Israel’s new nation-state law is a dangerous step
Israeli nationalists celebrate outside the Damascus Gate after the Nation State Bill became law
Starmer promised a reset after Labour’s dire electoral performance, but the government’s programme still falls far short of the bold action needed, says ANDY McDONALD MP
ANDREW DRAPER reports on the deliberate targeting and torture of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli state
Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
What began as a purported ‘anti-drugs mission’ has evolved into a permanent regional military operation, write ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
KEITH FLETT looks at a post-election London
ISRAEL’S apologists have always insisted it does not merit the epithet “apartheid,” but they have been cut off at the knees by last week’s Knesset approval of a nation-state law.
The new legislation, which has the status of a constitutional basic law, defines Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people and asserts that “realisation of the right to national self-determination in Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”
It confirms Tel Aviv’s illegal land grab perpetrated against east Jerusalem, naming “a united Jerusalem” as Israel’s capital, and designates Hebrew as the state’s official language, downgrading Arabic to one with “special status.”
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