Recent searches
Search options
#Palestine-Israel / Legal analysis of Israel's proposed Citizenship Amendment, a legal disenfranchisement of Arab citizens' children born in Gaza (by Yael Ronen, a professor of international law)
The proposed amendment to Israel's Citizenship Law, as announced by the Ministry of Interior on March 3, 2025, represents a significant deviation from #Israel's established “jus sanguinis” citizenship framework by denying citizenship to children of Israeli citizens born in "enemy states" or Gaza.
This legislative initiative, which fails to acknowledge its disproportionate impact on Arab Israeli citizens despite legal requirements to do so, contravenes Israel's obligations under international conventions, including the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The amendment's purported justification—that children born in these territories inherently possess "identification and loyalty" to those entities—lacks empirical foundation and conflicts with established legal principles regarding citizenship acquisition, thereby constituting what critics characterize as a demographically motivated policy that further marginalizes an already vulnerable population segment within Israeli society.
Hebrew https://www.regthink.org/child-citizenship-revocation
Still trying to sound neutral in reporting something like this when it is clear what is actually happening is not journalism.
@Fou_ad not sure I follow
Pointing out that 'it contravenes israels obligations' after all the contravening israel has been doing is bs. They are still acting as if israel is 'the only democracy in the middle east'.
It isnt a democracy and it could care less about international humanitarian law.
Saying so would be proper journalism.
@Fou_ad It’s a game Israel’s legal system is still playing, so for the sake of claimed complementarity (implying independence of the the judicial system) there are some rules, which the international community sort of holds Israel accountable for and its reperesentaoves wave in international forums (ie ICJ), while current and previous coalition made it clear they don’t give a f about. Now that the U.S. lets Israel do whatever they want, and still get aid, it’s even less relevant. Israel’s courts are the main whitewashers of the occupation. It’s been shown over and over.
Yes, and news outlets and their journalists are the ones conveying that its fine by playing their game instead of calling them out.
@Fou_ad this paper is by a intenrational law expert for a think tank called regthink. independent outlets do discuss this issue often btw, see recently https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/114139128753121019
Considering it looked to be all in hebrew I didn't open the link, i read the text and assumed it was a news article. My bad.
I do stand by my arguments though when it comes to news media. They often play the game instead of calling out.