Hamas strongly denounced on Thursday the adoption by the Israeli parliament the Knesset of the new Nation-State Basic Law charging Israel of officially adopting an apartheid system of rule.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said “such a racist law” has seen the day thanks to the US unconditional support for the Israeli occupation and its apartheid regime.
“Such a law will not change the defacto situation. The Palestinians are and will forever remain the real sovereigns in Palestine” said Barhoum.
He called on the Palestinians to opt for a unified national strategy so as to defend Palestinians’ rights and land against such schemes.
Hamas urged the international community to work on reining in the unabated flow of Israel’s apartheid policies and prosecute the Israeli occupation for its flagrant breaches of international resolutions.
The Israeli Knesset voted 62 to 55 early Thursday to approve the Jewish Nation-State Basic Law that constitutionally enshrines the identity of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
It guarantees the ethnic-religious character of Israel as exclusively Jewish and entrenches the privileges enjoyed by Jewish citizens while simultaneously anchoring discrimination against Palestinian citizens and legitimizing exclusion racism and systemic inequality. It is considered as the “law of laws” capable of overriding any ordinary legislation.
The danger of the law lies in the act that it denies the Palestinian citizens their right to self-determination to instead be determined by the Jewish population. The Jewish Nation-State bill officially legalizes apartheid in what observers dubbed one of the most dangerous laws adopted in recent decades to legalize discrimination against Arabs.
