Which Israeli laws are called Jewish supremacist, and what do they say?

The 2018 Nation-State Law and dozens of companion statutes are called Jewish supremacist

The Nation-State Law’s own text

The Basic Law: Israel – The Nation-State of the Jewish People, passed by the Knesset 62–55 on 19 July 2018, says in Article 1 that the right to national self-determination in Israel “is unique to the Jewish people.” Article 4 makes Hebrew the state’s language, demoting Arabic to an undefined “special status.” Article 5 is “open for Jewish immigration.” Article 7 treats “the development of Jewish settlement as a national value” the state must “encourage, promote and consolidate” (Adalah’s annotated text¹). It contains no equality clause — the only Basic Law that omits one. Here is what the key articles and provisions say, in plain terms: they write Jewish privilege into constitutional law.

Differential treatment in the West Bank

In the occupied West Bank, half a million Jewish settlers live under Israeli civil law while nearly three million Palestinians are ruled by military orders. The settlement provisions of the Nation-State Law constitutionalize this differential legal treatment of settlers and Palestinians. Its sponsor, MK Avi Dichter, said it was meant “to prevent… Israel [becoming] a country of all its citizens”; Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked aimed it at the Supreme Court’s Qa’adan ruling against discriminatory land allocation (The Forward²).

The critics’ list of supremacist laws

Adalah’s Discriminatory Laws database — the standard list critics cite when calling Israeli law Jewish supremacist — documents over 65 statutes: the Law of Return (Jews-only citizenship), the Admission Committees Law (2011), the Nakba Law, and the Citizenship and Entry Law banning Palestinian family unification, defended explicitly to preserve a Jewish demographic majority (Adalah³). This criticism comes not only from Palestinian advocates but from Israeli jurists and civil-rights groups. For readers who believe law should be color-blind: no other democracy constitutionally defines itself as serving one ethnic group.