'Israel is not a state of all its citizens,' Netanyahu wrote.
In a tense pre-election period, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday entered into an Instagram spat with an actress over to whom the state of Israel belongs.
"When the hell will someone in this government broadcast to the public that Israel is a country for all its citizens. And every person was born equal. Arabs, too, God help us, are human beings. And so are the Druze. And so are gays, by the way, and lesbians, and…shock…leftists,” Sela wrote on Instragram in a message that was picked up by the Israeli press and received some backlash on social media."Dear Rotem, an important correction: Israel is not a state of all its citizens.
Israel’s government passed its controversial “nation-state law” in July 2018, a move that critics said transformed Israel into an apartheid state. The law states that the right to self-determination is “unique to the Jewish people” and makes Hebrew the official language of Israel. Netanyahu was a strong proponent of the law. “Today we made it law: This is our nation, language, and flag,” he said in a statement the day the bill was passed. “In recent years there have been some who have attempted to put this in doubt, to undercut the core of our being.”
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