The Kohanim - The Kohanim must be 100% pure Jewish. In 2005, Israel stopped a Kohanim man from marrying a religious Jew from Russia because she had a gentile in her ancestry.
Birth-rite Israel - Liquor and media magnate, Charles Bronfman (Epstein network) founded Birth-rite Israel, the purpose of which is to prevent intermarriage between Jews and gentiles.
Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People - In 2018, Israel passed Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, stating that, the right to exercise national self-determination in Israel is unique to Jewish people, and that the state views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation.
A coalition challenged it, proposing a law of their own, calling Israel a country for all its citizens, but Knesset Speaker, Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, leading the Knesset Presidium, unilaterally disqualified it before it was allowed to even be debated.
A year later, Netenyahu evoked the law on Instagram: ''Israel is not a state of all its citizens. According to the basic nationality law we passed, Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people – and only it.''
Military rule - From 1948 to 1966, Palestinians living in Israel were placed under military rule. The state used extraordinary emergency powers to confiscate property and close entire villages as military zones, confining Palestinians to dozens of enclaves. They were tried in military courts and required permits to leave their cordoned off areas. They banned protests and political parties. According to Haaretz, Israel lifted its military rule over the state's Arab community in 1966 only after ascertaining that its members could not return to the villages they had fled or been expelled from. By the time military rule was lifted, Israel had completed its initiative of destroying Palestinian homes and making them uninhabitable.
Suffrage - Not a single Palestinian can vote in Israeli elections.
Right to work - Due to the seizure of valuable land and resources in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians are forced to work in Israel. To do so, they require a permit, costing the equivalent of €580 a month. On top of that, 40% of the pay of those who work in construction is taken by labor brokers. On average, Palestinians work 12 hours a day for the equivalent of $3 an hour, without insurance. All of this is against Israeli labor law.
To make it into Israel to work, Palestinians have to line up as early as 3AM to wait 3 hours at a checkpoint. (𓃠)
Those 26,000 who stay in the West Bank resort to work in building homes in illegal Israel settlements on their own land.
Since October 7, roughly 30,000 Gazans have lost their jobs due to the air, sea and land blockade which Israeli officials say was designed to keep Gaza indefinitely on "the brink of collapse.'' (𓃠,𓃠)
(2011) Communities Acceptance Law - Unlike most industrialized countries, in Israel, the state controls 93% of the land, either directly or indirectly through quasi-national bodies such as the Jewish National Fund.
In 2011, the Knesset passed the Communities Acceptance Law, which established admissions committees in Jewish communities to screen applicants based on their social suitability to the community's cultural fabric. The 2011 law stipulated that these admissions councils were limited to towns with 400 residents, though this rule was repeatedly broken. Regardless, in 2023, the law was expanded to towns with 1,000 residents. Today, admissions committees operate in 53 regional councils which control 81% of state land in Israel. Arabs are, in practice, barred from leasing land in 80% of the land in the state of Israel.
Energy - The Israeli Electric Company (IEC) supplies electricity to all branches of the Israeli government and to the vast majority of Israeli households. Palestinians are dependent on IEC. Some Palestinian communities in Israel are unable to connect to the power grid, receive lower quality services, are charged differently than Israelis and are subjected to collective punishment through punitive power outages.
Crop land - Since 2014, Palestinian farmers along Gaza’s perimeter have seen their crops sprayed by airborne herbicides and regularly bulldozed. Israel declared that any vegetation higher than 1 meter in the vicinity of their military ‘no-go’ area is a security threat, and must be flattened, formally admitting to this policy in 2015.
Economic disparity - Pslestinians control just 3% of state land in Israel, despite making up 20% of the population. The 90% of Palestinians who live in these areas experience higher rates of poverty, lower levels of labor force participation, educational attainment, and health. 50% of the Arab population lives below the poverty line. Only 2% of industrial zones in Israel, which generate a significant tax income, are located in these Palestinian areas. The 10% of remaining Palestinians live in so-called "mixed cities," but even then, they are usually relegated to separate neighborhoods.
Communities Acceptance Law - Unlike most industrialized countries, in Israel, the state controls 93% of the land, either directly or indirectly through quasi-national bodies such as the Jewish National Fund.
In 2011, the Knesset passed the Communities Acceptance Law, which established admissions committees in Jewish communities to screen applicants based on their social suitability or their unsuitability to the community's social and cultural fabric. It stipulated that these admissions councils were limited to towns with 400 residents, though this rule was repeatedly broken. Regardless, in 2023, the law was expanded to towns with 1,000 residents. Today, admissions committees operate in 53 regional councils which control 81% of state land in Israel.
Palestinians are, in practice, barred from leasing land in 80% of the land in the state of Israel.
Law on Political Parties - In Israel, political parties are illegal if they deny the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state under the 1992 Law on Political Parties.
Nakba Law - In 1992, the Knesset approved Fundamentals of Finance Amendment Number 40, which has been called the Nakba Law. Under this law, the state can withhold funding for government institutions that commemorate the Nakba.
Rules of Procedures - The Knesset's Rules of Procedures states that the Presidium shall not approve a bill that, in its opinion, denies the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people, or is racist in its essence.
Ironically, these provisions prevent Palestinian lawmakers from challenging laws that codify Jewish-Israeli domination over the Palestinian minority, let alone the suppression of free speech and expression.
Citizenship Law - The Citizenship Law restricts the ability of Palestinians from Israel to marry individuals from the West Bank or Gaza. This does not apply to Israeli Jews.
Demonstration - Palestinian political parties and demonstrations are illegal.
Banning Palestinian marriage - Since 2002, Israel has prohibited Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza from gaining residency in Israel through marriage. As a result of this policy, tens of thousands of families have been unable to live together. This is in place for security reasons, but when the law was enacted in 2003, then Interior Minister, Avraham Porras explained: "A decision was reached at the time that for now, family unification would cease, as it was felt that it would be exploited to achieve a creeping right of return, that is, tens of thousands of Palestinian Arabs are coming into the State of Israel."
Preventing return for refugees - Not only can Palestinian refugees living in other countries not move to Israel or Palestine, they're barred from entry; they can't even visit Israel, the West Bank, or Gaza. While any Jew in the world and his or her children, grandchildren, and spouses are entitled to immigrate to Israel at any time and receive Israeli citizenship, Palestinians living in other countries cannot immigrate to the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, even if they, their parents, or their grandparents were born and lived there.
Finance Minister, Bezelel Smotrich: ''Israel has used this land to build hundreds of communities for Jewish citizens, yet not a single one for Palestinian citizens, with the exception of the Bedouins in the south, who are having their current houses bulldozed to transfer them to new townships.''
Military law - Israeli Jews go to civil court, while Palestinians go to military court, with an over 99% chance of being convicted. Hundreds are held without any charges at all, and can be held indefinitely without any trial whatsoever. This violates international law. (𓃠) 91.5% of complaints filed against settlers by Palestinians end in indictment. (𓃠)
Unlike with civil law, death by hanging is the default punishment for fatal attacks by Palestinians on Jews, and not the other way around; these applies even for Palestinian soldiers who kill the IDF.
Military orders - Palestinians in the West Bank are governed by more than 1,800 military orders pertaining to taxation, transportation, land planning and zoning, and natural resources including water.
Water limit - The 1995 Oslo Accords stipulated that 80% of water in the West Bank would be diverted for Israeli use, with only 20% for Palestinian use, despite the Israeli population numbering at over 100,000 and the Palestinian at over a million.
Oslo 2 provided Israelis with an unlimited water supply, while restricting the Palestinian supply to a predetermined amount. In reality, Palestinians extract less water than specified in the agreement. West Bank residents will attempt to supplement their water on their own, but military orders prevent them from building any new water installation without first obtaining a permit from the Israeli army. They are not allowed to drill wells, install pumps, or even deepen existing wells, and are denied access to the Jordan River and freshwater springs. Israel even controls the collection of rainwater in most of the West Bank, and the IDF often destroys rainwater harvesting cisterns owned by Palestinian communities.
Decades-long Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip prevented access to clean water and vital farming materials, through careful and assiduous tending.
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By: Otto Heckel
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