Ahmad Tibi (Arab-Israeli MK; leader of Ta'al; ex-deputy Knesset speaker) — statement after the 2018 Jewish Nation-State Law vote (per Vice): "I announce with shock and sorrow the death of democracy." The leading parliamentary voice of Israel's Palestinian-Arab citizens, demanding "a state of all its citizens."

I announce with shock and sorrow the death of democracy.

[Source is English (Vice, reporting his statement after the Nation-State Law vote; as rendered in English — Tibi, fluent in Hebrew, Arabic and English, may have spoken Hebrew/Arabic); tier-2, confirmed verbatim against the fetched page. NOTE: a separate "ethnic supremacy / first-rate for Jews, second-rate for Arabs" quote on the same page is attributed to the Joint List "alliance," NOT to Tibi individually, and is excluded.] Declared position of Ahmad Tibi — a veteran Palestinian-Arab member of Israel's Knesset (since 1999), leader of the Ta'al (Arab Movement for Renewal) party and a former deputy Knesset speaker; the most prominent and articulate parliamentary voice of Israel's PALESTINIAN-ARAB CITIZENS (~20% of the population). Reacting to the 2018 Jewish Nation-State Basic Law — which enshrined Israel as "the nation-state of the Jewish people," downgraded Arabic from an official language, and made no mention of equality — he declared: "I announce with shock and sorrow the death of democracy." He has called the law one of "Jewish supremacy" that renders Arabs "second-class citizens," has bluntly told Israeli leaders "Israel is an apartheid state," and champions Israel becoming "a state of all its citizens" with full equality between Jews and Arabs — alongside support for ending the occupation and a Palestinian state. This is the ARAB-ISRAELI / PALESTINIAN-CITIZENS-OF-ISRAEL / CIVIC-EQUALITY pole — the demand for equal citizenship and a civic (rather than ethnically Jewish-supremacist) definition of the state, and the sharpest internal challenge to the Zionist ethnonational consensus, distinct from both the Jewish-Israeli left (Ehud Olmert) and right (Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich). [Axes: Israel's-character / citizenship (a "state of all its citizens"; equality for Arab citizens; against the Jewish Nation-State Law and "Jewish supremacy"), democracy (the Nation-State Law as "the death of democracy"; minority rights), Israel-Palestine (end the occupation; Palestinian statehood; against apartheid), identity (the Palestinian-Arab minority's challenge to the Zionist-ethnonational consensus).]