Palestinian MP ‘accepts Israel’s racist Jewish state law’

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Al-Araby

A senior Palestinian lawmaker in the Israeli Knesset has been condemned for reportedly accepting Israel as being a Jewish state. Mansour Abbas is head of the United Arab List, a Palestinian-Islamist political party in Israel that is a member of the governing coalition. “The State of Israel was born as a Jewish state, and it will remain one,” he reportedly said during a summit for the Israeli business news outlet Globes. The reported comment was met with anger by many Palestinians, who pointed out the 700,000 Palestinians who were ethnically cleansed from their homes with Israel’s 1948 formatio…

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