JERUSALEM, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Israel's High Court has rejected a petition against the "Nakba Law" that would cut funding for groups that mark Israel's independence as a Palestinian tragedy.
Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch said the constitutionality of the law, passed in March could not be properly gauged, until it is actually applied, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday.
The law allows Israel's finance minister to cut government funding to municipalities and other groups that deny Israel's existence as a Jewish, democratic state or mark Israel's Independence Day as a day of mourning, the newspaper said.
The Adalah Center for Arab Minority Rights and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel says the law "ignores the harm to freedom of expression and to civil rights of Arabs that exists prior to the law having been applied."
