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Israel’s Elections Committee Votes To Bar All Arab Parties

Michael Hauser Tov, Chen Maanit, Noa Shpigeland Jack Khoury Haaretz
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

Anti-Zionist Israeli MP: ’I Will Never Surrender

Marcus Barnett interviews Ofer Cassif Tribune Magazine
Ofer Cassif — currently suspended from the Knesset for opposing genocide in Gaza — discusses Israel’s descent into fascism, building the movement that can defeat Netanyahu, and why he will never give up the fight for Palestinian freedom.

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A Dark Day for Israeli Democracy

Eetta Prince-Gibson Moment
With no judicial oversight, this self-serving government can use its powers to fire and appoint anyone it wants, use public resources for pet projects and otherwise abuse its power. Israel is a very different country than the one founded 75 years ago

African Asylum Seeker -Still In Israeli Jails

Elizabeth Tsurkov +972 Magazine
Knesset passes revised law for detention of African asylum seekers - The previous law was struck down by the High Court, which ordered the state to begin releasing the asylum seekers it was indefinitely detaining. Instead, the Knesset passed a law to circumvent the ruling and indefinitely detain asylum seekers in `open prisons.'
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