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MK Iman Khatib-Yasin attends a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 17, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Two MKs sanctioned for false claims about Oct. 7 massacre, war

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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...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid with head of the Ra'am Party, Mansour Abbas, in the Knesset assembly hall on June 21, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Report: Lapid rules out cooperation with ‘extremists’ Otzma Yehudit, Ra’am

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend a vote on the "settler law" bill at the Knesset, June 6, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The collapse of the current Israeli government is only the first step

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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....
Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, leads a faction meeting in the Knesset on Oct. 4, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

What is the Shura Council?

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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....
Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on Feb. 22, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s foreign minister

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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...
Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas at party headquarters in Tamra, on election night, March 23, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Islamic Movement’s new leader set to continue pragmatism, working with Israeli government

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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

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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 head Mansour Abbas attends a plenary session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 28, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas meets in Amman with Jordan’s King Abdullah

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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...
Head of opposition and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu walks next to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a plenum session and a vote on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on November 4, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Hypocritical Israeli coalition politics get ugly

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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...
Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas and party members at their headquarters in Tamra on election night, March 23, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Hamas widows, orphans and ties to the Israeli coalition

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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...