MK Yousef Jabareen (Joint List) appealed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a letter during her visit to Israel and called on her to act to abolish the Nation-State Law. In a statement issued by the Knesset Member, he wrote that he "sought immediate intervention to annul the Nation-State Law, and pointed out the "discrimination and racism" inherent in the law against Arab citizens and the denial of the right of the "Palestinian people" to self-determination." The law severely erodes our status as an indigenous national minority, "He wrote.