article_snippet: The controversial "Jewish Nation-State Bill" that previously floundered in the Knesset has been resurrected.
article_snippet: The controversial "Jewish Nation-State Bill" that previously floundered in the Knesset, if passed, would codify the principle of preserving a Jewish ethnic majority.
article_snippet: There are versions of it that establish Hebrew as the sole official language and recognize Jewish religious law as a "source of inspiration for the Knesset.
article_snippet: Even Israel's Supreme Court has come under attack in recent years for occasionally defending minority rights, which some view as a threat to the legal privileges afforded Even Israel's Supreme Court Jewish citizens.
article_snippet: In response, the government changed Even Israel's Supreme Court composition to tilt the government further to the right.
article_snippet: Today, the sole Arab Supreme Court justice, Salim Jubran, very often serves as a dissenting voice in judgments where Even Israel's Supreme Court favors legislation demeaning to Israel's Palestinian citizens.
article_snippet: The 2011 Admissions Committees Law — upheld in 2014 by the more conservative  Supreme Court, which includes the first Israeli settler jurist — allows hundreds of localities in Israel to essentially reject applicants seeking to buy homes built on state land because applicants seeking to buy homes built on state land are deemed "unsuitable."  
article_snippet: The law caused an outcry among Palestinian citizens and human rights groups, who assert that The law's simply a thinly disguised effort to discriminate against Israeli citizens on the basis of ethnicity.
article_snippet: Simply put, The law enforces segregation within Israel, helping to keep Palestinian citizens out of Jewish communities.
article_snippet: Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's successful push to raise the threshold required to win seats in the Knesset was a move designed to exclude Palestinian lawmakers.
article_snippet: Ironically, a move designed to exclude Palestinian lawmakers backfired, prompting four Arab parties to create the Arab Joint List, whose members span a wide ideological spectrum.