Ofer Cassif
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Sep 26, 2026
Hilbert FlumingtopCORRESPONDENT
And there's the disqualification fight on top of it.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
On the 24th, the Central Election Committee disqualified the Joint List and Ram, and two candidates, Sami Abu Shahadeh and Ofer Kasif.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
but it allowed Otzma Yehudit and religious Zionism Zehut to run.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
So Arab parties out, far-right parties in.
Harrison SmithHOST
Israel's Central Election Committee voted Wednesday to disqualify Mansur Abbas's United Arab List slate from running in the election, as well as the joint list, which consists of the parties of Hadash, Tal, and Balad.
Harrison SmithHOST
The vote came after left-wing Knesset member Ofer Kasif of the Arab-Jewish Hadash Party and Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh were banned earlier the same day.
Harrison SmithHOST
These decisions may be reversed by appeal to the High Court of Justice.
Harrison SmithHOST
Remember, there's no written constitution for the Israelis.
Alex JonesHOST
Israel's Central Election Committee voted Wednesday to disqualify Mansur Abbas's United Arab List slate from running in the election, as well as the joint list, which consists of the parties of Hadash, Tal, and Balad.
Alex JonesHOST
The vote came after left-wing Knesset member Ofer Kasif of the Arab-Jewish Hadash Party and Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh were banned earlier the same day.
Alex JonesHOST
These decisions may be reversed by appeal to the High Court of Justice.
Alex JonesHOST
Remember, there's no written constitution for the Israelis.
Harrison SmithHOST
Israel's Central Election Committee voted Wednesday to disqualify Mansur Abbas's United Arab List slate from running in the election, as well as the joint list, which consists of the parties of Hadash, Tal, and Balad.
Harrison SmithHOST
The vote came after left-wing Knesset member Ofer Kasif of the Arab-Jewish Hadash Party and Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh were banned earlier the same day.
Harrison SmithHOST
These decisions may be reversed by appeal to the High Court of Justice.
Harrison SmithHOST
Remember, there's no written constitution for the Israelis.
Mohamed HassanHOST
It's barred the United Arab List and the Joint List, accusing them of supporting terror and denying Israel as a Jewish state.
Mohamed HassanHOST
The Commission has also banned candidates Sami Abou Shehadeh and Ofer Kasif.
Mohamed HassanHOST
The Joint List said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right security minister, Itamar Ben-Gavir, were trying to discourage 1.2 million Palestinian Israelis from voting.
Mohamed HassanHOST
The decisions need final approval by the Supreme Court.
Mohamed HassanHOST
Ofer Kasif is a member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, and he represents the Hadash party and the Joint List, which the commission is banning from next month's elections.
Mohamed HassanHOST
We spoke to him earlier.
Mohamed HassanHOST
He says the disqualification is politically motivated.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
They do have a seat on their list reserved for a Jewish candidate.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
Currently, that's Ofer Kasif.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
So that's also a very far-left party.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
They're not interested in becoming part of any Israeli coalition.
David LevineHOST
When I read about that, is that a typical thing for a Jewish or non-Arab Israeli citizen to join one of these parties and run as a candidate?
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
No.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
We do have, like I said, Ofer Kasif, who's a member of Hadash, they have specifically, but usually that's reserved for somebody who's a...
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
The candidates that are running with Hadash are...
Shanna FuldHOST
It's a joint list of a number of smaller Arab parties.
Shanna FuldHOST
It also voted to disqualify two individual candidates, Hadash, member of Knesset, Ofer Kasif, 19 to 5, and Balad, chairman, 30 to 4.
Shanna FuldHOST
Unlike the party bans, those individual disqualifications don't take effect unless the Supreme Court approves them.
Shanna FuldHOST
So we have sort of an opposite situation.
Noa LeviHOST
On Thursday, the committee rejected two attempts to disqualify the Yehudit Yehudit party.
Noa LeviHOST
This decision followed Wednesday's vote to exclude Arab slates Ram and the Joint List, along with Joint List candidate Ofer Kasif, under Section 7A of Basic Law.
Noa LeviHOST
the Knesset.
Noa LeviHOST
This section prohibits parties from rejecting Israel's existence as a Jewish and democratic state, inciting racism or supporting armed struggle against Israel.
Luke ThomasHOST
There's Professor E.L. Weitzman of the Forensic Architecture.
Luke ThomasHOST
There's other writers, for example, there's David Grossman, there's Gideon Levy, there is Ofer Kasif.
Luke ThomasHOST
These are all Israeli entities, all of which have said that it is genocide.
Luke ThomasHOST
And then there are endless entities outside of Israel, academic, institutional, that have all said it meets the definition.
Noa LeviHOST
In Israeli domestic politics, the Central Elections Committee approved requests to prevent the Joint List and Ra'am parties from competing in elections for the 26th Knesset.
Noa LeviHOST
also disqualifying individual candidates Ofer Kasif and Sami Abu Shehadeh.
Noa LeviHOST
Likud and Yisrael Beitei knew supported these actions, which are expected to face judicial review.
Noa LeviHOST
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the family of Neria later, who was severely injured in an attack.
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