Wedding exposes racist nature of Israeli citizenship laws

[Second Summer]

RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Saturday broke up a wedding procession organized at a West Bank checkpoint to challenge Israeli laws preventing Palestinians in the West Bank from living with their spouses in Israel.

The wedding was organized by the "Love in the Time of Apartheid" campaign, a grassroots initiative set up by Palestinian youth to challenge the Citizenship and Entry into Israel law, which denies residency status in Israel for West Bank Palestinians married to Israeli-Palestinians.

The Citizenship and Entry into Israel law was enacted by the Israeli Knesset in 2003, and prohibits granting residency or citizenship to Palestinians from the occupied territories who are married to Palestinian citizens of Israel, Adalah says.

Full article: Israel breaks up checkpoint wedding to challenge citizenship laws (maannews.net)

 

[Eleven]

The U.S. does a similar thing in regards to separating families based, as this is, on nationality. In the U.S., it's Mexican emigrants who are forcefully separated from their spouses and their children. Both countries need a policy change.

 

[das_nut]

I was expecting this to be about the religious nature of Israeli weddings, and how interfaith couples can't get married inside the country.