Arab MKs to meet EU official to discuss Israel’s ‘nation-state bill’

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini on 11 January 2018 [Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency]

Arab-Israeli members of the Knesset will meet with the EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini next month to discuss the “nation-state bill” which Tel Aviv passed last month, Quds Net News reported.

According to the news site, MK Aida Touma-Suleiman said they would discuss the dangers of this bill and would call for a high-level political movement against it.

“It is a battle of existence and right to self-determination,” she said, “and we will not retreat.”

She stressed that there are popular counter measures against this bill on the parliamentary and international levels.

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Meeting will also be held with representatives of the UN and Human Rights Council, Touma added.

She also revealed that the High Follow-up Committee for the Arab Citizens in Israel had filed a complaint to the Commissioner of the Minority Rights, which would open and investigation into the Israeli violations against the rights of minorities.

The Knesset approved the Nation-State Law, which regards Israel as a nation-state for “Jews alone”. It downgrades the Arabic language and recognises a united Jerusalem, east and west, as the capital of Israel.

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