The Nation State Law is really making waves. Even though it practically changes nothing, which makes one wonder why it was so necessary anyway, it has effected a wave of protests, and now last night MK Bahloul (Hamachaneh Hatzioni) announced, on live television during an interview with Rena Matzliach, that he will be resigning from the Knesset as he cannot stay in with such a law being passed on his clock.

Interestingly enough, Bahloul said he would submit his resignation to the Knesset at the end of the vacation period. That means that MK Bahloul, who is so deeply troubled by the passage of a specific law to the point that he cannot possibly stay in the Knesset and work from within to improve it or to change it or to bring down the government or whatever, has no problem taking 3 more months of salary for the 3 month vacation period of the Knesset and only resigning at the end of that. A man of very high scruples. He must truly be troubled by this law.

UAL, the United Arab List, has announced that its MKs are all considering resigning from the Knesset together, to make a point.

I do not know who the next 12 on the UAL list are, nor do I know their politics or style, but of these 12 I can think of a few that we will breathe a sigh of relief and say Baruch Shepitarani over their resignations... After all the efforts to get rid of a few of these MKs, all it took in the end is this Nation State Law.. and if that is all it accomplishes, dayeinu.