This is a day of infamy in the history of our legislature, a big step in the process of making this a racist and sinister country . Exactly today our courts of law demonstrated the strength of democracy and showed that not even a former president is above the law, sentencing Moshe Hatzav to a seven years' term on charges of rape. But on the very same day the Knesset enacts laws that violate the basic principles of equality and democracy on which the State of Israel is supposedly based. "

The Admissions Committees Law is aimed at creating 'Jews only communities' from which Arabs could be excluded on the claim that they 'don't fit the community's social fabric'. It should be remembered that these are not just wcommunities' – they are bodies to which are assigned state lands. Thus, the new law gives a legal sanction to the exclusion of Arabs from lands that should be of the common property of the entire public. Fifty years after Martin Luther King put an end to racial segregation in America, this law leads Israel in the opposite direction, a direct continuation of Lieberman's racist "Loyalty Laws"

Amd with regard to the "Nakba Law", its only purpose is gagging and curtailing the Freedom of Speech. Similar to the proposed 'Boycott Law', still under deliberation in the Knesset, its goal is to silence opponents of the right-wing regime through economic penalties. This law will not prevent Israel's Arab citizens from remembering that creation of the state caused severe injustice to their people. Nor will it prevent critical minded Jewish citizens from exploring and throwing light into dark corners of their country's past. It will just have the effect of making the expressing of critical opinions an offence carrying the penalty of heavy monetary fines – and by instituting such penalties inside the country, it would further undermine Israel's position in the International Arena.