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Israel election double standard: Arab leader forced out, far right cleared ...

The Israeli political institutions, including the electoral body, have been accused of double standards for targeting Palestinian politicians and parties in Israel.

Sami Abu Shehadeh, the leader of the Balad party, withdrew his candidacy after the Supreme Court warned he could be disqualified from the race. He has described the decision to disqualify him from the upcoming elections as “a historical catastrophe for democracy”.

That court advisory came after Israel’s central elections committee barred him from running over comments he made about the war on Gaza. ....

“It’s always been the case whether the Israeli political system, the political elite, has always designed the political system in a way to ensure that it’s a Zionist state, not just or even a Jewish state,” Zaidon Alkinani, founding director of the Arab Perspectives Institute, told Al Jazeera. ....

zionist-despair His candidacy was challenged by far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir !over an article published on October 8, 2023, the day after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, which he described as “an important historical event”.

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