Slippery slope?

I have always been a staunch disciple of Ze’ev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin. I am also a child of South Africa’s Apartheid laws. I am mortified to tell you that Ahmed Tibi’s latest anti-Israel vituperation that the Nation-State Law makes Israel an Apartheid State has a kernel of truth in it and should be avoided at all costs.

In April 1950, the Nationalist Party-dominated South African Parliament passed the Group Areas Act, stipulating that the various racial groups live in areas segregated from one another. While the National camp-dominated Knesset was not so blatant, it did make provision for the exclusion of non-members of a group to be excluded.

Furthermore, to avert appeals to the Supreme Court against its apartheid legislation, the Nationalist party passed the High Court of Parliament Act in 1953, to allow the Parliament (expressing the wishes of the majority of the – white – people) to override attempts by the Supreme Court to nullify Apartheid laws.

We haven’t yet created “The High Court of the Knesset,” but there have been rumblings by members of the National camp that our Supreme Court should be similarly circumscribed.

These pronouncements could make the current process a slippery slope – and demonstrate the self-defeating nature of the Nation-State Law.

JAC FRIEDGUT

Jerusalem