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Sep 26, 2026
Harrison SmithHOST
If this democracy is to survive, we're going to have to ban every party except for ours.
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.
Alex JonesHOST
If this democracy is to survive, we're going to have to ban every party except for ours.
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.
Harrison SmithHOST
If this democracy is to survive, we're going to have to ban every party except for ours.
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.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The Joint List of Israel's Palestinian Parties has condemned its ban from the upcoming Knesset elections in October, telling the New Arab that the decisions are based on racism and reflect the hypocrisy of those who claim to support democracy.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The joint list made up of Hadash, Ta'al, and Balad is one of two major Arab-Israeli political box representing Palestinian citizens of Israel, the other being the United Arab List, Ram, which was also barred from the election.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Both lists were barred by Israel's Central Elections Committee on Wednesday, which also disqualified Balad leader Sami Abu Shahadeh and Hadash MK over Kasif.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The decisions are set to be challenged at the Supreme Court next week.
Yonit LeviHOST
Their deliberations are over, and I think we should say what the headline is but also dig deeper into what that headlines mean.
Yonit LeviHOST
Uh, essentially they decided in favor of disqualifying the joint Arab slate, uh, and the, uh, United Arab slate, Ra'am, uh, effectively barring all, uh, Arab, uh, parties from running in the election.
Yonit LeviHOST
Let's pause on that because there are two important asterisks to put here.
Yonit LeviHOST
One is that it is the final decision by the Supreme Court that will have to, uh, decide on that and rule on that and just my magic eight ball here, they will not bar these, uh, two parties.
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Jonathan FreedlandHOST
Uh, I'm j- I'm just talking about how you manage, how a democracy manages the views of those people whose views are repellent, and that's a difficult, uh, question.
Jonathan FreedlandHOST
I think there are strong arguments in both, and the fact that, uh, the Democrats were torn over it is revealing, I think.
Yonit LeviHOST
As we stand now, when you said, uh, we said Netanyahu is, you know, a best campaigner in this country for sure, perhaps beyond, uh, his campaign, the Likud campaign keeps banging on telling the Israeli public, uh, Eisenkot does not have a government without, uh, the Arab parties and specifically Ra'am, head by, uh, led by Mansour Abbas.
Yonit LeviHOST
And Eisenkot's saying really in every way possible, "I'm not going to do that.
Mohamed HassanHOST
The Israeli election committee has voted to disqualify the two main parties representing Palestinians in next month's elections.
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.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
Their idea is like, we got to work within the system to advance the interests of the Arab community in Israel.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
And then you've got Ra'am, Ram is really a right-wing party, if you were to look at the right-left divide through the lens of the United States or through most European countries, whereas in Israel, it's usually the Arab-Israeli conflict is how you view the right-left divide.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
It's a very conservative, it's an Islamist party until this election where the leader, Mansour Abbas, has decided to kind of break away from the religious roots and become a little bit more, it's still a traditionalist party.
Benyamin MoalemGUEST
And he, for the first time, joined the 2021 Bennett-Lefty change government.
Shanna FuldHOST
And I suppose due to the hostilities from Mayor Mamdani, maybe Netanyahu's team thought twice.
Shanna FuldHOST
On Wednesday, so that's just yesterday, the Central Elections Committee voted 18 to 5 to disqualify Mansour Abbas and his Ra'am party from running in the upcoming elections, handing Netanyahu a little pre-election victory.
Shanna FuldHOST
Now, we have almost exactly a month until the election, which is going to roll out on October 27th.
Shanna FuldHOST
Ra'am can appeal to the Supreme Court, which is expected to hear disqualification cases next week, and the ban is likely to be struck down.
Shanna FuldHOST
The Central Elections Committee is headed by a Supreme Court justice, but composed of representatives of various Knesset factions.
Shanna FuldHOST
Netanyahu's coalition holds a majority.
Shanna FuldHOST
making its decisions highly political.
Shanna FuldHOST
Most disqualifications are overturned by the court.
Noa LeviHOST
In related comments, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called French President Emmanuel Macron's assertion that Hamas has never been particularly active in the West Bank, outrageous, deeming it ignorance and deliberate whitewashing of terrorism.
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
Separately, the Henry Jackson Society has reported on Gaza-based journalists who reportedly operated within a Hamas-controlled media environment, participating in a Hamas-administered WhatsApp group for media coordination.
Noa LeviHOST
The findings suggest these journalists were later given platforms in Westminster Domestically, the Central Elections Committee voted to bar the Arab party Ra'am and MK from running in the upcoming Knesset elections, scheduled for October 27.
Noa LeviHOST
In US political news, President Donald Trump shared a Newsmax article on Truth Social detailing an election poll projecting Prime Minister Netanyahu's bloc to lead in the upcoming Israeli elections.
Noa LeviHOST
This follows previous comments from Trump regarding his potential involvement in the Israeli electoral process.
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