Recently approved legislation describes Israel as ‘nation-state of Jewish people’
Approved last month by the Knesset (Israel’s parliament), the new legislation describes Israel as “the nation-state of the Jewish people” -- a designation that has angered the country’s non-Jewish minority.
The PM’s office went on to assert that there had been no criticism of the law by U.S. officials.
The legislation also states that a “united Jerusalem” is Israel’s capital and that Hebrew is its official language, stripping Arabic of its earlier designation as an official language while recognizing its “special status”.
Palestinians holding Israeli citizenship account for approximately 21 percent of the country’s population.