If Israel is not a racist state, why are non-jews not allowed citizenship?

Question

Why can't I without any Jewish connection not allowed to hold an Israeli passport not unless I marry a Jewish person or I find a Jewry link on my mother's side.

Answer 1

That does sound very racist. That's the only country I have ever heard of that does that. Someone below said mentioned that there are Arabs (mostly Muslim) and Christians living in Israel. Some Arabs were BORN in that area, which used to be called Palestine. Now, after many years, they still live there. Even though it is called Israel now, those Arabs and Christians (yes, Arabs CAN be Christian) were still born in that country, and are considered citizens.

Answer 2

Israel dose not have a Constitution to start with no bill of right either. In Israel most of the land is owned by the state. Take a look at Karen kayamat a Zionist land organization which manage the Zionist land which was taken from the native Palestinians. In order to get land from Karan Kayamate you must be Jewish only. That i would call hiding racism for sure if you are none Jew its hard to live in Israel but we are doing it hoping for change one day.

Answer 3

Another Lie from the anti-semites.

Arabs in Israel have equal voting rights; in fact, it is one of the few places in the Middle East where Arab women may vote. Arabs currently hold 8 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. Israeli Arabs have also held various government posts, including one who served as Israel's ambassador to Finland and the current deputy mayor of Tel Aviv. Ariel Sharon's original cabinet included the first Arab minister, Salah Tarif, a Druze who served as a minister without portfolio. An Arab is also a Supreme Court justice.

Answer 4

You are mistaken. Any non Jew can get Israeli citizenship. The only difference is that the law of return only applies to Jews. Non Jews will have a waiting period as is customary in any democracy.

Answer 5

Yeah it's sorta hypocrtical after all the suffering the Jews went through in WW2, that they would discriminate against other races. I think it's because the Jews want a Jewish state of their own.

Answer 6

There are a lot of Christians in Bethlehem Scrating there heads where you got that from? And Racist? You'll find most of the world has much tougher requirments for citzenship. Even Mexico........

Answer 7

why would you want to??? israel was created so the jews could finally have a place of their own, for centuries they've had to endure hate and persecution and now they finally have a small piece of land that they can call home, i guess they're kind of possesive about it, i don't think i'd call that racist . . .

Answer 8

Actually, it's worse than you think!

Quoting: {Currently, under Israeli law, Jews and non-Jews cannot marry.}

Answer 9

Acquisition of Israeli Nationality

Taken from the Ministry of foreign affairs website (which bascially disproves your assertion):

Israel's Nationality Law relates to anyone wishing to settle in Israel, as well as those already residing or born there, regardless of race, religion, creed, sex or political beliefs. Citizenship may be acquired by:

Birth

The Law of Return

Residence

Naturalization




Acquisition of Nationality by Birth is granted to:

Persons who were born in Israel to a mother or father who are Israeli citizens.

Persons born outside Israel, if their father or mother holds Israeli citizenship, acquired either by birth in Israel, according to the Law of Return, by residence, or by naturalization.

Persons born after the death of one of their parents, if the late parent was an Israeli citizen by virtue of the conditions enumerated above at the time of death.

Persons born in Israel, who have never had any nationality and subject to limitations specified in law, if they:

apply for it in the period between their 18th and 25th birthday and
have been residents of Israel for five consecutive years, immediately preceding the day of the filing of their application.


Acquisition of Nationality according to the Law of Return

On the establishment of the State, its founders proclaimed "...the renewal of the Jewish State in the Land of Israel, which would open wide the gates of the homeland to every Jew...." In pursuance of this tenet, the State of Israel has absorbed survivors of the Holocaust, refugees from the countries in which they had resided, as well as many thousands of Jews who came to settle in Israel of their own volition.

The Law of Return (1950) grants every Jew, wherever he or she may be, the right to come to Israel as an oleh (a Jew immigrating to Israel) and become an Israeli citizen.

For the purposes of this Law, "Jew" means a person who was born of a Jewish mother or has converted to Judaism and is not a member of another religion.

Israeli citizenship becomes effective on the day of arrival in the country or of receipt of an oleh's certificate, whichever is later. A person may declare, within three months, that he/she does not wish to become a citizen.

Since 1970 the right to immigrate under this Law has been extended to include the child and the grandchild of a Jew, the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of a grandchild of a Jew. The purpose of this amendment is to ensure the unity of families where intermarriage had occurred; it does not apply to persons who had been a Jews and had voluntarily changed their religion.

An oleh's certificate may be denied to persons who:

engage in activity directed against the Jewish people;
may endanger public health or the security of the state;<
have a criminal past, likely to endanger public welfare.



Acquisition of by Residence

Special provision is made in the Nationality Law for former citizens of British Mandatory Palestine. Those who remained in Israel from the establishment of the State in 1948 until the enactment of the Nationality Law of 1952 became Israeli citizens by residence or by return.

According to an amendment (1980), further possibilities to acquire citizenship by residence were included in the law.



Acquisition of Nationality by Naturalization

Adults may acquire Israeli citizenship by naturalization at the discretion of the Minister of the Interior and subject to a number of requirements, such as:

they must have resided in Israel for three years out of five years preceding the day of submission of the application;

they are entitled to reside in Israel permanently and have settled or intended to settle in Israel;

they have renounced their prior nationality, or have proved that they will cease to be foreign nationals upon becoming Israeli citizens.

The Minister of the Interior may exempt an applicant from some of these requirements.

Answer 10

I have a dual citizenship. One in Canada and one in the good old USA. yea...