Belgium’s Foreigners’ Office has instructed dozens of municipalities to strip children born in Belgium to Palestinian parents of their Belgian nationality, L’Echo reports.

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      11 months ago

      Which seems to be what they’re taking advantage of here. Palestinians currently fall under Jordan’s nationality laws, which dictate that

      Individuals born to a Jordanian father are automatically Jordanian nationals at birth regardless of birthplace. The status is not transferrable by descent to children of Jordanian mothers unless the fathers are stateless or their nationalities are unknown. For nationality purposes, Palestinian fathers are never recognized as stateless whether they hold citizenship of any state or not.

      From my limited understanding, purely because they are the children of Palestinian refugees, Belgium can’t make them stateless.

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        11 months ago

        Belgium can’t make them stateless.

        Don’t gives states this latitude. They can do whatever the fuck they want. Laws aren’t real.