'He's from Muslim Brotherhood': Otzma Yehudit calls to bar Ra'am MK Abbas from Knesset elections
The demand came following a post shared by Abbas, in which he claimed Arab parties were forced to accept Israel as a Jewish state to avoid being barred from elections, and it was not a…
Assessment
An Israeli far-right party is using a routine political post to push for disqualifying an Arab MK from running in elections. The demand targets Ra'am's Mansour Abbas for stating the obvious: Arab parties had no real choice but to accept Israel's Jewish character as a condition of participation. This escalates a long-running battle over who gets to sit in the Knesset and on what terms. Watch whether legal authorities treat the call as serious or dismiss it as political theater.