Amid reports that a compromise is emerging to extend legislation preventing Palestinians who marry Israelis from automatically getting citizenship, Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi says the law will be the legacy of lawmakers from the coalition’s Ra’am party.
“If the citizenship law is passed it will be remembered forever connected to the names of the members of Ra’am,” Tibi tells the Kan public broadcaster.
Under the compromise proposal, the “family reunification law” will not be changed, and hundreds of Palestinians who married Israelis before the legislation was first approved in 2003 will receive the status of residency but not Israeli citizenship, according to Channel 12 news earlier this week.
The network, which did not cite a source, said the Islamist Ra’am party would abstain rather than voting to extend the law.
A Ra’am MK said earlier this week that the Islamist party would vote against the legislation — which he denounced as “racist and anti-democratic” — if it comes up for a plenum vote.
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