I have learned that a new law is about to be implemented in Israel, so here's the scoop before the BBC report it:
'The new law, according to Article 4.5 of the Citizenship Act of Israel, will hold:
that he [a potential citizen] be an original Jew by birth, or that he has converted to Judaism according to the prescribed rules and procedures and that a period of at least 5 years has passed since he embraced Judaism before the grant of naturalization.
Nationality thus acquired is ipso facto lost and the Decree of naturalization rendered void ab initio if the naturalized person expressly renounces Judaism or if he behaves in such a manner as clearly indicates his intention to abandon Judaism. In any such case, the nationality of any dependant of the apostate who had acquired it upon the naturalization of the apostate is also rendered void.'
The BBC will no doubt be up in arms about this and rightly so... this is quite disgusting religious discrimination.
CORRECTION:
My apologies it seems that I have misreported the above - it's not a new law to be implemented in Israel, it's a paraphrase of an existing Kuwaiti law. Here's the correct version:
'The current law, according to Article 4.5 of the Citizenship Act of Kuwait, holds
that he [a potential citizen] be an original Muslim by birth, or that he has converted to Islam according to the prescribed rules and procedures and that a period of at least 5 years has passed since he embraced Islam before the grant of naturalization.
Nationality thus acquired is ipso facto lost and the Decree of naturalization rendered void ab initio if the naturalized person expressly renounces Islam or if he behaves in such a manner as clearly indicates his intention to abandon Islam. In any such case, the nationality of any dependant of the apostate who had acquired it upon the naturalization of the apostate is also rendered void.'
This being the case, you can be 100% certain that the BBC will pay it no attention at all.
