The highly controversial Jewish nation-state law has heated up debate inside major Israeli parties and exposed a shaky Israeli political governance structure.

No Israeli body seems to have been affected by this law other than the very same building that passed this basic law with a thin majority.

Ever since the election of the 20th Israeli Knesset in 2015, it has been clear that this is the furthest right-wing legislative house since the establishment of Israel. The expectations of many that it would pass far-reaching laws institutionalizing the current state of discrimination and racism existing in Israel appear to have been fulfilled last month.

For most Palestinian citizens in Israel, the nation-state law was no surprise because they have felt the discrimination and treatment as second-class citizens since 1948. From the military laws and orders that restricted their movement in the 1950s, to refusing to let all Palestinian citizens in Israel to reclaim their lands and homes, to not allowing the residents of Ikrit and Biram to return to their villages, to ignoring the discrimination over land use and the resulting Land Day protests that were confronted by the deadly shootings of 13 citizens, the list is long.