FREEDOM OF POLITICAL EXPRESSION AND ASSOCIATION
In my previous blogs, I have shared some of my experiences in Jerusalem which challenge the commonly held perspective of universal democracy in Israel. Instead, liberal democracy exists only for Israelis and Palestinians are thus treated as second class citizens.
This week, the Central Elections Committee in the Knesset banned two Arab political parties (United Arab List-Ta'al and Balad) from running in the parliamentary elections on February 10th. These actions further eludicate the true reality of Palestinians in Israel and Jerusalem, who are denied a suite of fundamental rights afforded other Israelis, including that of political expression and association. The article below (live link), which I highly recommend reading, briefly describes this situation in the Knesset.
Israel bans Arab parties from participating in upcoming elections (Haaretz)
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