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Authors and artists in Israel are calling for the repeal of the law that defines Israel as a Jewish state, reports Swedish cultural radio .
"We have locked into the law the basic principle of our existence.Israel is the nation of the Jewish people, which respects the individual rights of all citizens.It is our state, the Jewish state. ", said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the July vote.
One of the consequences of the law is that Arabic, up to here one of the official languages of Israel, has a lower legal status.
"Writers, writers, playwrights, academics and members of the Israeli artistic world – want to express our I am deeply shocked and dismayed by the laws recently passed in the Knesset under your direction." Then opens the letter Open of the writer Amos Oz to Benjamin Netanyahu
The letter says, among other things, that Netanyahu was injured The link between American Jews and Israel and the authors of the letters requires that the law of Israel as a Jewish nation, which they intend to discriminate against Arabs and other minorities in the country, is repealed.
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