I will stand up for Palestinian human rights and firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. They are the same job

[Nanjeanne]

99. Palestinians may have citizenship but they are not nationals which is a big distinction.

. Israel distinguishes between citizenship and nationality. For example, a Palestinian citizen of Israel has an Israeli citizenship (which grants them civil rights), but their nationality is officially recognized as Arab, preventing them from accessing certain privileges (like those reserved under Israel's Law of Return)

For example, you can be a citizen of Israel but be a Druze national, or a Jewish national. Your nationality is determined by your ethnicity and it cannot be changed or challenged. It is relevant because many of the rights accorded in Israel stem from your nationality not your citizenship. Meaning an “Arab” Israeli citizen and a Jewish Israeli citizen, while both citizens, enjoy different rights and privileges determined by their “nationality”.

This is not merely discrimination in practice, but discrimination by law. Adalah have composed a database of discriminatory laws in Israel that disfavor non-Jewish Israelis. For example, the Law of Return and Absentees’ Property Law are but two examples of flagrant racism and discrimination in the Israeli legal system [You can read more about t

There are more than 60 laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel directly or indirectly, based solely on their ethnicity, impacting virtually every aspect of their lives, including housing, employment, education, healthcare, and who they can marry. These include the 1950 the Law of Return, The Nationality and Entry into Israel Law-2003, which restricts family reunification between Palestinians in Israel and spouses in the West Bank and Gaza and other countries, and the 2011 law, which restricts the freedom to commemorate the Nakba, are examples of this trend. In 2018, the Israeli Knesset passed the “Jewish nation-state” law as one of the country’s quasi-constitutional Basic Laws.

So it’s pretty nuanced and requires knowing a bit more than googling are Palestinians citizens of Israel. And
Omer Bartov an historian and Holocaust scholar and Daniel Levy, former advisor to the Israeli government with expertise on Middle East and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and formerly an Israeli negotiator as part of the Taba summit and Oslo 2 peace process might know something. Disagree with them if you want. Discussion is great and you can certainly disagree but disagree with more knowledge than “they are wrong” and Google says so.