Nuremberg Laws

These laws were copied and converted from American law, and are almost identical to law in present-fay Israel.

The Nuremberg Laws were 1935 laws in Germany, approved at a NSDAP convention in Nuremberg, which established German citizenship, ie. who could, and could not claim German citizenship. They were also anti-miscegination laws, meaning that they forbade marriage and sexual relations between the races. There were also later supplementary decrees and restrictions. The first defined jews as persons with at least one jewish grandparent.

Later, two basic jewish categories were established. A full jew was anyone with three jewish grandparents. Mixed jews (Mischlinge) were eventually divided into two classes. First-degree mixed jews had two jewish grandparents, but did not practice judaism and did not have a jewish spouse. Second-degree mixed jews had only one Jewish grandparent.

Comparison to present Israeli law

Laws in present-day Israel are virtually identical to Germany's Nuremberg Laws.

Israel prohibits marriage between jews and non-jews, between individuals of only partial Jewish ancestry and jews with "full" jewish ancestry, between converts to judaism and jews with jewish ancestry, and same-sex marriages.

Avoiding this, by marrying abroad, for instance, has caused large scale protests, such as when more than 200 Israeli protesters demonstrated against a marriage between jewish woman and Muslim man as they shouted “death to the Arabs” and “May your village burn down.”

Chinese worker at a company in Israel had to sign contracts stating that they will not have sex with or marry Israelis. Consensual sex with a jewish woman caused an Arab man to be sentenced to 18 months in jail as "rape by deception" as it was alleged he told her that he was jewish. In 2015, the Israeli Education Ministry banned a book as threatening "the identity and the heritage of students in every sector" because it portrayed a love story between an Israeli jew and a Palestinian Muslim. Those identities, the ministry insisted, are best kept "separate". "Young people of an adolescent age don’t have the systemic view that includes considerations involving maintaining the national-ethnic identity of the people and the significance of miscegenation", the ministry said in a statement. Israeli and jewish organizations spend a great deal of money and effort trying to prevent jews outside of Israel from intermarrying with non-jews.