Tens of Thousands of people reportedly gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest new Israeli legislation declaring the country to be the nation-state of the Jewish people. Israel's Druze population comprise the core of the protest.
On July 19, the Israeli parliament passed a constitutional law declaring israel to be a “nation-state,” which meant that only Jews now have the right to self-determination. The legislation also declares Hebrew as the official language, stripping Arabic of the same status. The new law has been widely criticized as a complication to the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and as discrimination against the Druze, the nation's most integrated Arab community.
Rally of 100,000 in Tel Aviv tonight against the Nation State Law. pic.twitter.com/8D3Wuq1bet
— Sara Conway (@SaraConway4) 4 августа 2018 г.
Gathered into Tel Aviv's Rabin square, protesters, who also included many Israeli Jews, waved Israeli and Druze flags with signs demanding the law be retracted.
NOW: Tens of thousands, mainly Druze and Jewish demonstrators, are gathered in Tel Aviv to protest against the Jewish Nation State Law, demanding full equality for all.
Images: @OrenZiv1985 / @activestills pic.twitter.com/I7PyIYXM3U— +972 Magazine (@972mag) 4 августа 2018 г.
“No one can preach to us about loyalty and the military cemeteries testify to this. Despite our utter loyalty, the state does not see us as equal,” Sheikh…
