Rabin Sq. protest against Nation State Law
Photo: AFP
Palestinians to support Israel's Arabs in Nation-State Law protest
After Israeli Arabs announce a strike on Monday in protest of recently-passed law which declares that only Jews have right of self-determination in Israel, Palestinians in WB, Gaza, east Jel'm join them in their struggle to revoke it.
Palestinians called a general strike for Monday in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in support of an Israeli-Arab protest against Israel's Nation State Law.
Leaders of Israel's Arab community have called for their private sector to strike against the recently-passed Nation State Law, which declares that only Jews have the right of self-determination in Israel.
Rabin Sq. protest aganist the law (Photo: Tal Shahar)
The strike will have limited effect on the country as a whole as Monday marks the end of the Sukkot festival for Israel's Jewish majority.
Factions in the Palestinian territories have said schools, universities, government offices and shops will close in solidarity.
The law has come under fierce criticism at home and abroad and has provoked anger among the 1.8 million Palestinian Arabs who make up a fifth of Israel's 9 million citizens.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hastily set up a committee to propose new legislation to mollify the law's critics but no amendments have been enacted since its passage in July shortly before the Knesset went on its summer recess. It will reconvene in the middle of October.
Mohammed Barakeh, a former Israeli lawmaker who heads a committee that monitors Israeli policy concerning Israel's Arabs, said the strike had been called in coordination with groups in the Palestinian territories.
"The strike is a message to the world that the cause of apartheid and racism is something that should not only be dealt with internally but it should be talked about globally," Barakeh said.
