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The Jewish Week - ADL Head Slams Loyalty Oath For Arab Israelis

by Joshua Mitnick
Israel Correspondent
Tel Aviv — A major American Jewish leader has slammed as discriminatory and undemocratic two bills from the party of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that are stoking Arab-Jewish tensions.
A panel of government ministers is scheduled on Sunday to vote on introducing a bill to institute a loyalty oath as a precondition for citizenship, a proposal that helped Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party to an unprecedented third place finish in recent elections.             

The second bill is slated for a full cabinet vote and would outlaw public expressions of grief over the Palestinian displacement in 1948 — known as Nakba, or catastrophe in Arabic — on Israel’s Independence Day holiday. 
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