Who needs the nation-state law? The state of the Jews, fears, and fearmongering

I am a proud Israeli patriot. I was born in a Tel Aviv suburb less than two years before David Ben-Gurion announced, in the city’s museum building, the establishment of the State of Israel. My earliest childhood memory is from the day after the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed, the day the Egyptian Air Force bombed the city. I remember looking at the big fire that erupted at the factory just a few hundred meters west of my parents’ house. Every time I recall sentences from Israel’s Declaration of Independence, the discordant din of airplane engines mixed with the sound...