Tag: Ra’am
Two MKs sanctioned for false claims about Oct. 7 massacre, war
Two Arab lawmakers were suspended from the Knesset on Wednesday for false claims about the Oct. 7 massacre and ensuing war against Hamas.
The Knesset Ethics Committee voted to sanction Ra’am Party MK Iman Khatib-Yasin...
Report: Lapid rules out cooperation with ‘extremists’ Otzma Yehudit, Ra’am
In an apparent about-face, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid ruled out on Wednesday the possibility of forming a coalition with the far-right Otzma Yehudit and Islamist Ra’am parties for the Nov. 1 elections.
Speaking at...
The collapse of the current Israeli government is only the first step
It is difficult to count how many times members of Israel’s governing coalition seemed about to drop out, thus opening the door to the government’s demise. We were simply observers of this interminable process....
What is the Shura Council?
When Israel’s Ra’am Party froze its membership in the government coalition last month over the Temple Mount riots, the decision came not from the party’s leadership but from a body called the Shura Council....
The Muslim Brotherhood’s foreign minister
The responses elicited by the death of Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh were written hundreds of years ago. Blood libels—the practice of using the death of non-Jews as a means to set up the Jewish collective...
Islamic Movement’s new leader set to continue pragmatism, working with Israeli government
The southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel chose a new leader in recent weeks that cements its continued role in the Israeli government.
Sheikh Safwat Frij, who previously served as deputy head of...
Mansour Abbas is leading a sea change for Israel’s Arabs
Just a few weeks ago, Knesset member Mansour Abbas—the head of Israel’s Ra’am Party—said it’s time for his countrymen to accept Israel’s Jewish identity.
His remarks were met with outrage—both from Arabs inside Israel and...
Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas meets in Amman with Jordan’s King Abdullah
Ra’am party chairman Mansour Abbas met with Jordan’s King Abdullah in Amman on Tuesday, reported Israel’s Channel 12 news.
According to an additional report by Walla, sources in the office of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Abbas had...
Hypocritical Israeli coalition politics get ugly
For some observers of the Israeli political scene, there’s only one thing that matters. For the Biden administration, the crucial question is whether the outcome of the maneuvering in Jerusalem between the various political...
Hamas widows, orphans and ties to the Israeli coalition
Given the fact that the Arab-Israeli Ra’am Party is openly Islamist and associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the revelation on Friday evening by Channel 13’s Ayala Hasson that it’s been funneling money into Gaza to finance Hamas...