Nation-State Law – Is it Really a Well Thought-Out Law? Is It a Party Manifesto or a Parliamentary Act?
Nation-State Law – Is it Really a Well Thought-Out Law? Is It a Party Manifesto or a Parliamentary Act?
Author(s): Uri HuppertSubject(s): Constitutional Law, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, Politics and law, Politics and religion, Politics and society, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
Keywords: Israel; 2018 Nation-State Law; Benjamin Netanyahu; secular State of Israel; point 13 of President Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 plan; ignoring minorities;
Summary/Abstract: The author offers an analysis of the controversial Israeli Nation-State Law of 2018 and B. Netanyahu’s involvement in its adoption. He claims that its ideas manifest Netanyahu’s desire to depart from the state-centred, social democratic, and liberal views advocated by Ben Gurion. This desire stems from his strong disagreement with Israel’s founder’s claim and belief that secularism is a guarantee that Israel does not fall into the same trap as the leaders of the bicentennial Crusades – which ultimately failed. The author of the paper makes an insightful comparison of this law with the contents of Point 13 of Thomas Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 plan – a document from exactly 100 years before, designed to shape Europe after victory in the war against Russia, Prussia, and Austria-Hungary, on whose lands an independent Polish state was to be established.
Journal: Krytyka Prawa
- Issue Year: 14/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 133-153
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English