the israeli incorporation regime53 iii. The Admissions Committees Law Passed on March 24, 2011, this law calls for “admission committees” to operate in almost 700 agricultural and community townships, accounting for 68.5 percent of all towns in Israel and around 85 percent of all villages built on state land in all of the Naqab and Galilee. Serving as decisive bodies that select applicants for housing units and plots of land, these committees are given full discretion to approve or deny individuals the right to live in these towns. Composed of “a representative from the Jewish Agency or the World Zionist Organization,” the ambiguous and subjective criterion of “social suitability” adopted by these communities stands to reproduce and entrench racially segregated towns, communities and villages throughout Israel. Though legal provisions for adhering to the right to equality and preventing discrimination are included in this law, it nevertheless allows these committees to refuse applicants considered “unsuitable to the social life of the community… or the social and cultural fabric of the town.” As a result, entire ethnic communities are filtered out as applicants. In fact, this law also allows admissions committees to include criteria selected by the individual communities themselves according to their particular characteristics, and encompass even those townships that are self-defined as maintaining a “Zionist vision.” iv. The ‘Nakba Law’ Passed on March 22, 2011, the amendment to The Budget Foundations Law (1985) is popularly called the ‘Nakba Law’. This law enables the Minister of Finance to reduce or remove state-funding to an organization or institution if it sponsors or advocates an initiative that challenges the existence of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state,” or if it recognizes “Israel’s Independence Day or the day on which the state was established as a day of mourning.”12 Outlawing the traditional marking of Israel’s official Inde­ pendence Day, May 14, 1948, as a national day of mourning for the loss of their homeland and the displacement of their people, this law specifically targets the right of the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Although its original draft prohibited any and all commemoration of the Nakba, the approved draft of the ‘Nakba Law’ targets state-funded institutions, including schools, research centres, civil society organizations and political groups with the threat of a fine of up to ten times the funds used for the commemoration. 12 Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, The Inequality Report, 40.