Israeli Arab leaders on Tuesday filed a nearly 60-page-long petition against the newly enacted Jewish Nation-State law, calling the legislation "racist, massively harmful to fundamental human rights" and in contradiction to international law.
The petition, the fourth such appeal against the controversial new law, was filed by Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Right in Israel, on behalf of Arab political leaders of Israel including the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, the National Committee of Arab mayors, and the Joint (Arab) List political party.
Petitioners argued that the law was steeped in colonial ideology and "based on the principle of ethnic superiority" and served to impose a singular "constitutional identity" on all of Israel's diverse cultural groups.