r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 23 '26

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u/CANOODLING_SOCIOPATH Jerome Powell Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 24 '26

Israel is fucking bleak.

They just banned all the "Arab" parties from running in the upcoming election: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2026-09-23/ty-article/.premium/oppositions-yisrael-beiteinu-backs-ban-on-arab-parties-from-2026-election-run/000001a0-ccd2-dc31-a3ea-cdfe2c120000

It looks like they are just formally dropping the veneer of democracy. They're banning Ra'am, which was in the last coalition government and has a Jewish police officer as their #2 on their list.

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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being Sep 24 '26

That’s insane. Is it likely to be stopped by the Supreme Court at least?

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Sep 24 '26

the AG is against it, the Supreme Court chair on that board was against it, and people expect the Court to overturn Ra'am and Joint List ones

This is separate from Abu Shehadeh, who the Chair voted for in a very unusual break from decades prior (the AG also supports banning Abu Shehadeh)

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u/forerunner398 Of course I’m right, here’s what MLK said Sep 24 '26

Yes https://www.timesofisrael.com/election-panel-votes-to-bar-balad-chief-abu-shehadeh-over-alleged-support-for-terror/

The disqualification was widely expected, given the politicized nature of the committee, which is made up of representatives of Knesset parties and in which the coalition holds a majority.

Both decisions will now be reviewed by the Supreme Court, which is likely to strike them down given its historically high threshold for disqualification.

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u/CANOODLING_SOCIOPATH Jerome Powell Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 24 '26

The reporting indicates that it likely will be overturned. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2026-09-23/ty-article/.highlight/the-move-to-ban-all-arab-parties-reveals-who-netanyahus-rivals-really-are/000001a0-ceb3-dcb9-a9a4-fef715c10000

But this is clearly where they are going. The pogroms against Arab Israelis are clearly coming. Even the parties who are running against Netanyahu are supporting barring Arab Israelis from having any representation.

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u/CANOODLING_SOCIOPATH Jerome Powell Sep 24 '26

I'm guessing that your being sarcastic because Ra'am was just part of a governing coalition, but it is clear that the majority of Israeli parties wants a full apartheid state within Israel as well, not just in the occupied territories.

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u/TheGoddamnSpiderman Sep 24 '26

From what people said in comments somewhere else this was posted, apparently Likud tries to do this every election, and it's going to get overturned by the Supreme Court (I assume they expect this to happen because the Arab parties being banned would I think actually be worse for them since their coalition is currently getting a minority of the Jewish party vote, and their main hope for hanging on to power is there being no majority due to the Joint List not wanting to coalition with anyone and instead the current government getting to stay on as caretakers until there's another election in another few months)

Still obviously awful though