A delegation of lawmakers from the Arab Joint List meets with senior European Union officials in Brussels to denounce Israel’s recently passed Jewish nation-state law and criticize the Israeli government for what it calls systematic discrimination against the country’s non-Jewish minority.
Party chairman Ayman Odeh meets with the EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini while five of his fellow lawmakers meet with other top officials, including the foreign minister of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn.
“Our struggle against this law must be pursued in all areas and takes place first and foremost in Israel, in the cooperation between Arab society and democratic Jewish forces,” Odeh says in a statement released after his meeting with Mogherini. “However, our partners in the international arena have a very important contribution [to make] in their support for our struggle against the nation-state law that was legislated by the extreme-right and racist government.”
At about the same time, Israel’s ambassador to the EU attends an event held by a pro-settlement advocacy group at the European Parliament on Jewish-Arab “coexistence” in the West Bank.
— Raphael Ahren
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