Israel moves closer to banning mourning of its independence - Haaretz - Israel News »
Posted By dissent 5 months, 1 week ago in NewsPublic commemoration of Israel's independence as a day of mourning could become a crime subject to prison penalty, should a bill approved on Sunday by a ministerial panel be brought to the Knesset and cabinet for vote.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved a preliminary proposal which would make it illegal to hold events or ceremonies marking Israel's Independence Day as a "nakba," or catastrophe.
Rather than holding barbecues and parades on Independence Day, Israeli Arabs and Palestinians usually take the day to commemorate the dispersal of Palestinians during the 1948 War of Independence.
Palestinian refugees around the world and Israel's Arab citizens mark the Nakba on May 15, the day after the British mandate over Palestine ended in 1948. Nakba Day is often observed by the Arab population in Israel with marches through destroyed villages.
According to the bill, those found in violation could face up to three years in prison.
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
"my country is the world. and my religion is to ...
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engineer5 months, 1 week ago
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kobzikov5 months, 1 week ago
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"It's just like saying the US should not be independent and mourning the US's independence."
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Free speech and freedom of expression rights are protected by First Amendment and if you don't like it, see how many other "patriots" you can find to help you outlaw it. -
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hyperbola5 months, 1 week ago
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Not at all engineer. Mourning the start of the racist zionist state is the same as mourning the start of the "aryan master race" state in Nazi Germany or the start of the "white supremacist" state in apartheid South Africa.
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Interesting how your "tribal loyalty" leads you to support racist totalitarianism that is not much different than Nazi Germany. I certainly hope that you are not an American - we don't need such extremists in our coutry. -
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dissent5 months, 1 week ago
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quite understandably, indigenous people everywhere mourn national days as the day their colonial oppression began and subsequently the creeping genocide that has turned them all, without exception, into walking ghosts, the soon-to-be extincted.
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all irrelevant arguments as to their right to even be there in the first place aside, it is no different for the palestinians.
but to make the mourning of their loss of their lands, their autonomy, their humanity and their dignity to colonial theft illegal with the threat of punishment by incarceration is not a hallmark of either free speech or the right to protest. it is certainly not the hallmark of justice.
it is the boot stamp of an oppressive and brutal police state paranoid at losing control and determined to indoctrinate by force. you must be nationalistic or suffer the consequences of the state. all dissenting views will be punished ..... this is what we could expect from north korea and i'm quite sure you would have no hesitation in condemning it.
yet, because it is israel -- the untouchable and not to be questioned -- you, engineer, a supposed liberal, support this? how blindly fanatical and schizophrenic of you
personally i think this is further evidence of israel's increasing state paranoia; fearful of losing its grip on control it seeks only to irrationally further tighten it, not realizing that the harder you squeeze the harder dissent and rebellion will kick back.
revolutions are born from acts such as this. zionism is fracturing
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