Comments on: This week’s legal developments signal human rights decline http://972mag.com/this-weeks-legal-developments-illustrate-israels-human-rights-decline/50829/ Independent commentary and news from Israel & Palestine Wed, 22 May 2013 00:35:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Greg Pollock http://972mag.com/this-weeks-legal-developments-illustrate-israels-human-rights-decline/50829/comment-page-1/#comment-68594 Greg Pollock Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:13:54 +0000 http://972mag.com/?p=50829#comment-68594 The Citizenship Law case signaled the trumping of racial integrity over individual standing. Israel is explicitly in its dark time of law now. Racial identity will color law and policy both wihin and without. As I have said many times here, take some solace from the US case Plessey v Ferguson, about 1883; a lone dissent later became the law of the land. There were dissents in the Citizenship Law case, too. . The Justice Ministries proposed law (not law yet) amplifies the present racial hysteria. However, I do recall, when visiting Israel about 1998, I was limited in how many NS I could convert to US dollars upon exit. Israel has fooled around with such fiscal border control for a long time. It is just taking new, monsterous forms now. Which is unfortunately necessary if things are to change later. The Citizenship Law case signaled the trumping of racial integrity over individual standing. Israel is explicitly in its dark time of law now. Racial identity will color law and policy both wihin and without. As I have said many times here, take some solace from the US case Plessey v Ferguson, about 1883; a lone dissent later became the law of the land. There were dissents in the Citizenship Law case, too.
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The Justice Ministries proposed law (not law yet) amplifies the present racial hysteria. However, I do recall, when visiting Israel about 1998, I was limited in how many NS I could convert to US dollars upon exit. Israel has fooled around with such fiscal border control for a long time. It is just taking new, monsterous forms now. Which is unfortunately necessary if things are to change later.

]]> By: Jogortha http://972mag.com/this-weeks-legal-developments-illustrate-israels-human-rights-decline/50829/comment-page-1/#comment-68557 Jogortha Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:06:06 +0000 http://972mag.com/?p=50829#comment-68557 This trend doesn't bode well for the future of the state. . the systematic attempt to completely and decisively weed out African asylum seekers, and immigrants shines the light on another side of Israeli society that is not exactly humane. It's one thing to want to stop the flow of immigrants across one's borders, it's an entirely different thing to want to prevent them from sending money to their relatives in their home countries. No Western nation, including those with the toughest and most severe immigration problems has undertaken a similar effort. This trend doesn’t bode well for the future of the state. . the systematic attempt to completely and decisively weed out African asylum seekers, and immigrants shines the light on another side of Israeli society that is not exactly humane.

It’s one thing to want to stop the flow of immigrants across one’s borders, it’s an entirely different thing to want to prevent them from sending money to their relatives in their home countries. No Western nation, including those with the toughest and most severe immigration problems has undertaken a similar effort.

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