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Two Israeli human rights groups have petitioned Israel's Supreme Court to overturn the so-called Nakba Law. The law, passed in March, enables the state to fine local communities and other state-funded groups for holding events that mark what the Arab community calls the Nakba, which means catastrophe, referring to the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. Fines, deducted from a group's operating budget, could equal up to three times the event's sponsorship cost; repeat violations would double the fines.
When Adalah, an Israeli Arab legal rights group, joined an initiative in 2007 to create an Israeli constitution that would dilute -- if not remove -- the state's Jewish character, it unleashed a furor in pro-Israel circles.