You Must Be Kidding: 
The Jerusalem Report Magazine fired its cartoonist, Avi Katz, for a cartoon depicting Netanyahu and colleagues as ‘Animal Farm’ pigs in criticism of the new Jewish Nation-State law they passed. (However, 38 years ago, Haaretz published a similar cartoon depicting Israeli leaders as pigs and nobody got fired.)

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You Must Be Kidding: 
"I want to hug my son and they won’t let me. Every day my son asks me, 'Dad, when will you come home? I want to kiss you and play with you.' When I hear that I start to cry. I worked in Israel without a permit, but it was only to support the family. I never hurt anyone. I am an honest man.”
—Atia Shenran, 25, who lives in Gaza, wants to visit his son, who lives in the West Bank and whom he has never met, but Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories said that Shenran does not meet the required criteria in order to receive the needed entry permit.**

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You Must Be Kidding: 
“Jews, somebody’s making sure to maintain the Jewish character of Jerusalem.”
—Right-wing settler activist and Jerusalem Municipality Councilman, Arieh King, wrote proudly on Facebook with a photo of a Palestinian peddler, whose wares, mainly bread, were on the ground, after King got municipal inspectors to confiscate his stand. Even some right-wingers berated him saying there was nothing 'Jewish' about it.**

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"So why did we need this law?
--Yedioth commentator Ben-Dror Yemini writes that international condemnation for the Nation-State Law didn't come just from Israel's haters, but also from some of its biggest supporters, and it offends Israel's Druze citizens, who serve in the Israeli army.*

"This law is the mark of Cain on everyone who voted for it," said Shanan, who explained: "We have been raised and educated about belonging to and love for the State of Israel, and I recognize that the State of Israel is the state of the Jewish people and the state of all its citizens. This law can create a situation in which, tomorrow, a person rises up and takes control of it by democratic means, and takes advantage of the law so that Muslim, Druze and Christian citizens not only can’t be second-class citizens, but they also can’t be citizens at all."
—Former Druze MK Shakib Shanan, the father of Border Policeman Kamil, who was murdered by a Palestinian on the Temple Mount last year, reacted to the Nation-State law passed yesterday. (Maariv)

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“Land is one of the most important public resources, and designating it for the use of one group only at the expense of another is one of the clearest characteristics of apartheid."
--Shabtay Bendet, of Peace Now’s settlement-monitoring team, reacted to the news that since 1967, Israel has only allotted .25% (401 acres) of the state land in the West Bank to Palestinians, but almost 50% (148,263 acres) to Israeli settlements. The numbers were revealed by the State following a request by Peace Now and the Movement for Freedom of Information.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
“As of now, I’ve paid about 100,000 shekels [$27,457] and I don’t know when I’ll get it. It’s not defective and it’s hallal.”
--Long-time Gazan meat importer, Mohammed Shaker, is being forced to pay $600 a day for storage at an Israeli port for canned meat he imports to Gaza, because Israel suddenly decided that meat for Palestinians in Gaza requires a Jewish kosher certificate.*

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