Racist marriage laws, then and now

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

In 1934, Jews were dismissed from the army. They were excluded from the
stock exchange, law, medicine, and business. But it was the Nuremberg
Laws of 1935 that took away the citizenship of Jews born in Germany and
labeled them subhuman. With these laws Hitler officially made
anti-Semitism a part of Germany's basic legal code. Under these laws,
marriage between Jews and German citizens was forbidden.

http://www.scetv.org/holocaustforum/over3.html

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Independent, August 1, 2003
Israel imposes 'racist' marriage law
Palestinian-Israeli couples will be forced to leave or live apart
By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem

Israel's Parliament has passed a law preventing Palestinians who marry
Israelis from living in Israel. The move was denounced by human rights
organisations as racist, undemocratic and discriminatory.

Under the new law, rushed through yesterday, Palestinians alone will be
excluded from obtaining citizenship or residency. Anyone else who
marries an Israeli will be entitled to Israeli citizenship.

Now Israeli Arabs who marry Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza
Strip will either have to move to the occupied territories, or live
apart from their husband or wife. Their children will be affected too:
from the age of 12 they will be denied citizenship or residency and
forced to move out of Israel.

full: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=429490

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