Summary: The cabinet approved a law that offers dual citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews. Sphardic Jews is the term used to describe those that lived in the Iberian Peninsula. Only those that have presented a connection to Portuguese Sephardic Jews will have this right. The government says that this is their way of dealing with the discrimination of Jews for five centuries.
Opinion: This new law is a nice way to represent how the view of Jews has changed and they are now accepted. This law should have been passed a long time ago. The Jews should have had the same rights as everyone else to begin with but it is considerate that the government is being considerate of the Sephardic Jews.
Political Ties: This article displays how the Portuguese government has changed and is no longer discriminatory against Jews. It represent striving to achieve cultural equality in Portugal.