{"id":31440,"date":"2011-03-25T00:17:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=31440"},"modified":"2014-01-06T01:14:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:14:01","slug":"israel-passes-controversial-funding-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/03\/25\/israel-passes-controversial-funding-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel passes controversial funding law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31441\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31441\" title=\"Nakba Day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Nakba-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Nakba-Day.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Nakba-Day-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nakba Day - as Palestinians call it - is an important date in the political calendar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Bethany Bell<\/p>\n<p>BBC News, Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\"><strong>The Israeli parliament has passed a law that allows the state to deny funding to institutions that question the country&#8217;s existence as a Jewish state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Civil rights groups say the law restricts the freedom of expression of Israel&#8217;s Arab minority, which makes up about a fifth of Israel&#8217;s population.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The controversial law brought in by <em>the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party <\/em>was passed by a vote of 37 to 25.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The new law has been called the Nakba bill, the Arabic word for catastrophe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Palestinians use the term to refer to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of them fled or were forced from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new law, groups involved in activities that deny Israel&#8217;s existence as a Jewish state can be prevented from receiving public funding.<\/p>\n<p>Those activities include marking Israel&#8217;s Independence Day as a day of mourning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Civil rights and Israeli Arab politicians say the law is undemocratic and unfairly singles out Israel&#8217;s Arab citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The current version of the law is more moderate than the original, which called for prison sentences for anyone holding Nakba memorial events.<\/p>\n<p>www.bbc.co.uk,\u00a023 March 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bethany Bell BBC News, Jerusalem The Israeli parliament has passed a law that allows the state to deny funding to institutions that question the country&#8217;s existence as a Jewish state. Civil rights groups say the law restricts the freedom of expression of Israel&#8217;s Arab minority, which makes up about a fifth of Israel&#8217;s population. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":31441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[5142,3757,5143,5141],"class_list":["post-31440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-civil-rights","tag-freedom-of-expression","tag-israeli-arabs","tag-the-nakba-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}