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Likud says it will request to ban Arab parties from running in elections

The Likud stated that it would file the requests for the parties' disqualifications, and that "there is no place in the Knesset for those who harm IDF soldiers."

Mansour Abbas is the head of Ra’am, one of four Arab parties vying for a place in the Knesset.
Israeli Arab lawmaker Jamal Zahalka

Joint List condemns normalization with Sudan

A RESIDENT OF Kafr Kassem votes in 2018.

Why is the once rising Joint List falling fast in polls?

MK Heba Yazbak of UAL-Balad

Joint List's Heba Yazbak: Joint list is against racism


Police interrogate Ghattas on suspicion of smuggling phones to prisoners

MK denies seeking to harm state security but does not deny charges against him.

MK Basel Ghattas at Temple Mount

The Ghattas effect: MKs banned from visiting terrorists in prison

Visits to security prisoners will no longer fall under Knesset members' parliamentary immunity.

Eshel Prison

'Arabs flock to the polls? I'd prefer if they didn't show up to vote at all'

Coalition chairman David Bitan (Likud) stated Saturday that he'd prefer if Arabs didn't vote, and that, "the Joint List doesn't represent Israeli-Arab interests, it represents Palestinian interests."

DAVID BITAN seen at the Knesset last year

Joint List MK: Israel using Nazi-style methods to incite against Arabs over fires

More than a week after flames are doused, Jewish-Arab relations continue to smolder.

A FIREFIGHTER WALKS inside a building destroyed by fire in Beit Meir, near Jerusalem, in November

Israeli-Arab MK accuses Netanyahu of 'racism' during string of fires

Joint List leader calls on Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit to open an investigation into the PM on the matter.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Coalition’s lackluster Joint List boycott begins

More coalition than opposition MKs were present during so called walk-out.

The knesset during the boycott on Oct. 31, 2016

Coalition to boycott Joint List after Peres funeral snub

Liberman says Arab MKs’ behavior crossed a redline; Odeh: Liberman’s initiatives to harm us only strengthen us.

Avigdor Liberman

Joint List: Flotilla crew members kidnapped by Israeli Defense Forces

"Flotillas and activities that work to break the siege on Gaza will continue as long as the siege on our people in the Strip continues," stated the Joint List.

Joint List MKs Ayman Odeh, Jamal Zahalka and Haneen Zoabi at the Tel Aviv University Nakba Day protest

Politicians call to oust Israeli-Arab MK from Knesset for pro-BDS talk

The lawmaker called Israel an oppressive, racist and apartheid state.

MK Bassel Ghattas

Labor MK Bar to Arab League ex-Sec-Gen: Help us negotiate with Palestinians

The MK argued that bilateral Israeli-Palestinian talks will not work on their own, and moderate Sunni states should be enlisted to support negotiations.

Hilik Bar