Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The blood libel film [View all]shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)And I'm not sure how it would work. Under the current scheme, the JNF gets land in the Negev whenever it is forced to lease urban land to an Arab. The land with the Arab gets transferred to the ILA and in exchange the JNF gets the purchase monies and negev land. The JNF therefore avoids compromising on its racist principles and the State in effect is able to resolve the problem by kicking some scraggly natives off their land.
If the JNF has to lease its Negev land to Arabs, I'm not sure what the state could offer them in compensation. In think the whole point of the admissions committee laws was to try and avoid that scenario. Unlike the Ariel bill, the admissions law isn't blatantly racist on its face, it just has that effect in practice.
It is quite similar to the WASP Country clubs in the US that didn't have explicit "no Jew" policies, but had selection policies that operated to exclude Jews from membership.