Look I always encourage people to read the Israeli constitution.
Jewish state. Fact.
Not multicultural, not secular. Jewish. That was the founders design.
Jewish state. Fact.
Not multicultural, not secular. Jewish. That was the founders design.
https://knesset.gov.il/constitution/ConstIntro_eng.htm
Perhaps you mean the Declaration of Independence?
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(...
If they didn’t control for their population, they’d need to decide between not being a Jewish state and not being democratic.
It's funny how the experience of being subjected to a racist, human -rights-disregarding ethnonationalist regime that engaged aggression based on a desire for historic ethnic territory and a desire for buffer space has provoked the creation of a racist, human-rights-disregarding, ethnonationalist regime that engages in aggression based on a desire for historic ethnic territory and buffer space.
Well, not “funny” as much as “tragically ironic”.
When Jews were being murdered by the millions, nothing was done. Countries turned ships full of Jewish refugees around some of who went back to Europe and perished.
It’s pretty clear that nobody will look after Jews but other Jews and Jews will have no refuge except in a Jewish state.
I recall that Palestinian leaders made a state visit to Singapore and the then Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew, famously pragmatic, said “You’ll never defeat Israel militarily. Why? They have nowhere else to go.”
The President considers race mixing a "tragedy".
It's a law to try and maintain racial purity.
And the population may or may not now disagree with what the "Founders" intended.
Times change. People evolve. Hopefully for the better. Too often for the worse.
Or to put it another way, similar and "worse" things are happening elsewhere, but it's not PC to bring them up.
“Ben-Gurion essentially said in effect to his nation: ‘In this world we can only have two out of three of our objectives. We are being offered a chance for a Jewish state and a democratic state, but in only part of the land of Israel. We could hold out for all the land of Israel, but if we did that we might lose everything. If we have to compromise on our objectives, let it be on obtaining all the land of Israel. We will settle now for half a loaf, and dream about the rest later.’”
“Then came June 1967. Israel, in the course of the Six-Day War, occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, extending, in the process, Jewish control over virtually all the historical land of Israel originally sought by Zionism. From that moment on, Israelis again faced the monumental question: What kind of nation do we want to be? Once again, it could only have two out of three of its objectives. One choice was to keep all the land of Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and to remain a Jewish state, but this could be done only by curtailing Israeli democracy. The only way Israel could permanently control the Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be by physically suppressing them and ensuring that they were never given political rights.”
From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman