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The decision to ban the UAL, the Joint List and Balad's party leader Sami Abu Shehadeh and Jewish MK Ofer Cassif from Hadash is expected to reach the Israel High Court for review. The committee said they reject Israel as a Jewish and democratic state

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The Joint List was a historic electoral alliance of Palestinian-majority parties. Ten years after its formation, this experiment in Palestinian unity inside Israel — and its ultimate collapse — shows the need for carefully cultivated alliances.

Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection.

Renewing the war will certainly not bring the hostages home. What will the massive aerial assault, further devastation and the elimination of a few more low-ranking Hamas leaders achieve? Is it unconnected to Trump's dreams of a Gaza Riviera?

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented an imperialist horror show. An American and an Israeli, each with his own criminal indictments, decided to determine the future of the Palestinian people.

If America’s leaders prioritized the lives of all those who live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, it would become clear that asking if Israel has a right to exist is the wrong question.

The only war that resembled this was the 1948 war that caused the Nakba, the motivations behind that war were different. That was a war to establish a Jewish state; this is a war to establish a fascist state. The State of Kahane has risen in Israel.

More than 2,700 Israelis have signed this open letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use ‘every possible sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves’

October 7 should have handed Israel's wild-eyed right the perfect storm for success: wartime rallying and vengeful fury. So why don't the polls over the past year back that up?