Israeli Arab leaders file a petition to the High Court of Justice against the nation-state law.
The petitioners include the gamut of Arab Israeli representative groups, including the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee, the umbrella body of Arab Israeli organizations; lawmakers on the Arab Joint List in the Knesset; and the committee of Arab council heads and mayors.
Filed by Adalah, an Arab legal rights group, the petition claims the law passed on July 19 is “racist, massively harmful to fundamental human rights and contravenes international human rights norms, especially those forbidding laws that constitute a racist constitution,” the group says in a statement.
The petition also says the law explicitly rejects Palestinian national rights, which, when applied to areas claimed by Israel beyond the Green Line in East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, constitute a violation of the laws of occupation contained in the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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