The plank in brief

Belonging is built on connection, contribution, and commitment to a shared future, so there is more than one road to citizenship. Everyone who lives here permanently now becomes a citizen automatically. People displaced from their homes, and their descendants, get their citizenship restored. People with a demonstrable Jewish, Palestinian, or other historical communal connection can claim diasporic citizenship. Anyone else can naturalize through the same fair, transparent requirements, whatever their ancestry. No one is stripped of nationality arbitrarily, and no one is left stateless. Residence is sequenced by housing and infrastructure capacity, not by ethnic quotas.

Proof works the way people’s lives actually work: family records, prior residence, communal archives, refugee registration, religious or cultural community records, and credible oral testimony. There is no genetic testing. Identity isn’t in our genes. It’s in our lives and our connections. The guardrails are about conduct, not origin: proven atrocities, organized political violence, espionage, serious transnational crime, or a present and evidenced threat. An independent citizenship commission decides, publishes its reasoning as precedent, and anyone can appeal to an independent court. One community, many paths, equal worth.

Objections and replies

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Changes

• November 2026: first published here.