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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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  • [–] 68 points 12 hours ago* (2 children)

    Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action

    London, United Kingdom – Margaret Owen, a 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, has been trying to get arrested for months.

    She has attended about a dozen protests wearing a sign reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” in London and has had a placard with those words attached to a window at her home since the group was proscribed under the Terrorism Act in the UK in July 2025.

    But unlike thousands of others who have been detained for showing support for the group, officers had not – until Sunday – hauled her into a police van.

    “I’ve been trying to get arrested for quite some time,” she told Al Jazeera. “I’m rather proud and glad to have finally joined the club.”

    In her pursuit, Owen had also written to the Metropolitan Police, sharing photos and confessing, but “they’ve never done anything about it”.

    “I think they never wanted to arrest me because that would be quite a story for the media, this ancient veteran human rights lawyer, aged 94, you know, it’s too much of a story.”

    In Liverpool, during a rally held outside the Labour conference, she was finally detained.

    “I was the oldest there … Maybe they’d never heard of me, the police up in Liverpool,” said Owen, who in 2013 received an OBE for her contribution to advancing women’s human rights, especially widows’.

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    The BBC understands that one of the men had dialled 999 himself, about an hour before a local farmer alerted police to a "large group" of masked men near the vehicles.

    Watch it be a broken down van where a friend came to help with gas.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 day ago*

    Welcome to America where the value is fake and the votes don't matter.

    On the graphic we'll probably see this for 3 more weeks and a handful of deadly riots before the actual results come out. Lula needs a successor yesterday.

    The you have Asia where the candidate is cult member vs general of the dictator and it's the same family feud for past 100 years.

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