Is there a Hebrew word for “irony?” From the Haaretz article “Knesset set to vote on law to determine if a group is ‘pro-Israel’“:
The Knesset is scheduled to vote Tuesday, in second and third readings, on two highly controversial bills: the first would deprive organizations of state support and fine them if they undertake activities that deny Israel’s existence as a Jewish and democratic state, and the second would allow small towns to screen applicants for residency.
The admissions committees law would allow a committee to reject a person from moving into a community who is “ill-suited to the community’s way of life, or if they do not suit the community’s social-cultural fabric.” This law will only apply in the Negev and Galilee, which also happen to be the two areas inside Israel that the state has been most intent on “Judaizing.” Haaretz reports that critics of the bill “fear that the legislation would allow small communities to bar Arabs, immigrants, single-parent families or same-sex couples.”
The “Jewish and democratic” state rolls on . . .
