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The Knesset just passed an apartheid bill that officially defines Israel as the national homeland of solely the Jewish people.

Immediately after the law passed, Arab lawmakers tore copies in protest, and were subsequently removed from the Knesset hall.
haaretz.com/israel-news/is…
Palestinian lawmaker Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List party, released a statement saying that Israel "declared it does not want us here" and that it had "passed a law of Jewish supremacy and told us that we will always be second-class citiziens."
haaretz.com/israel-news/is…
New Israeli apartheid law also includes a clause that says "the state sees the development of Jewish settlement [in the illegally occupied Palestinian West Bank] as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation" haaretz.com/israel-news/is…
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