Lisa Jones wrote on Dec 22
nd, 2022 at 10:58am:
this well known nutter --> Dr Israel Shahak !!
Prof. Shahak's been vindicated by Dr. Yvonne Karimi-Schmidt, Professor of International Law, University of Graz, Institute of International Law.
https://uni-graz.academia.edu/YvonneKarimiSchmidtDr. Yvonne Karimi-Schmidt's 2001 paper, Foundations of Civil and Political Rights in Israel and the Occupied TerritoriesIn 1992, the Knesset enacted the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom and the Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation, which, for the first time contain a protection of some civil rights and fundamental liberties, and which authorize the courts to exercise judicial review of Knesset laws. However, even with the passage of these two basic laws on human rights, there exists no law in Israel that protects the right to equality for all citizens on a constitutional level.
On the contrary, both basic laws emphasize the ethnicity of the state of Israel as a Jewish state establishing that "the object of this Basic Law is to protect human dignity and freedom/freedom of occupation in order to entrench the values of the state of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in a Basic Law." Due to this strong emphasis on the ethnic character of the state of Israel to be "a Jewish state" these basic laws are discriminatory in their nature and totally ignore the fact that not the entire population of the state of Israel is made up of Jews, but rather exists of one fifth - i.e. approximately 20% - of Palestinian Arab citizens...
There is also no law that specifically protects equal rights for the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel...
The Israeli government does not recognize the Palestinian Arab citizens (approximately 20% of the total population) as a national minority, but rather refers to them as "Israeli Arabs" or by their religious affiliation (Moslem, Christian, Druzes).
Important to mention is the fact that up until today all Israeli governments discriminated and still discriminate against the Palestinian Arab minority in a systematic way and in all fields...
The law in Israel subjects the Palestinian Arab citizens to three types of systematic discrimination, namely:
1. Direct discrimination against non-Jews within the law itself.
2. Indirect discrimination through so called "neutral" laws and criteria which apply principally to Palestinians.
3. Institutional discrimination through a legal framework that facilitates a systematic pattern of privileges
Dr. Yvonne Karimi-Schmidt, 2001 Foundations of Civil and Political Rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories