Fady Khoury is a SJD candidate at Harvard Law School
and a civil and political rights attorney at Adalah – The
Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. He was
part of the legal team at Adalah that drafted and filed
the petition against the Jewish Nation-State Law, but
the opinions expressed in this article are his own. He
thanks Lihi Yona and Rana Elkahwagy for their valuable
comments on the article.
The Nation-State Law’s impact on the social legitimacy and standing of Palestinians
in Israeli society, rather than its strictly legal impact, may prove to be the real danger.