"Palestinian and Arab denunciation of Israel as a Jewish and democratic nation-state is a de facto continuation of the United Nations' libelous Resolution 3379, known unofficially as the 'Zionism-is-racism resolution,' approved in 1975 and repealed in 1991.
More ominously than its passage 43 years ago, the Zionism-is-racism resolution's slanderous denunciation of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state continues to enjoy growing support and legitimacy in Western circles in 2018. These threats taken together underscore the importance of passing the Nation-State Law.
The PLO, in close strategic partnership with Israeli Arab parliamentarians, has denounced Israel's Nation-State Law precisely because it reaffirms Israel's majority character as a Jewish and democratic state. Jewish sovereignty is an anathema both to PLO and Hamas ideologies and Israeli Arab MK worldviews, whether communist, nationalist or Islamic...
Many have failed to recognize the Palestinian rejection of a Jewish and democratic state is a de facto continuation of the UN's libelous 1975 resolution 3379 affirming Zionism as racism which was passed in aftermath of PLO leader Yasser Arafat's infamous November 1974 UNGA speech. That speech was effectively a modern political blood libel in which Arafat stated, 'Zionism is imperialist, colonialist, and racist'. And that speech united anti-Zionism with antisemitism in its retrograde tenets.
Arafat's antisemitic accusations against Israel as the 'collective Jew' have been reenergized today. Arab Knesset members, Palestinian leaders, international boycott, divestment and sanctions activists and other Western intellectuals cast Israel as a state version of the world's European Jew of 70 years ago – criminal, racist, pilfering, illegitimate, and now, purveyors of 'apartheid.'...
The EU and UN echelons have joined the criminalization and defamation of Israel. Rima Khalaf, UN under secretary-general and ESCWA executive secretary, issued a report in 2017 that concluded, 'Israel is a racist state that has established an apartheid system that persecutes the Palestinian people.'...
In passing the Nation-State Law, Israel codified in law, following scores of other democracies decades earlier, what it should have legalized with its reestablishment in 1948. It was then that the United Nations and the international community celebrated the rebirth of the world's one Jewish sovereign democracy after 2,000 years of expulsion and exile..."