The elections committee’s ban on every Arab party barely registered in Israel, because everyone assumes the High Court will reverse it. That’s a comfortable arrangement for a center that lets the court defend democracy for it
The disqualification of all the Arab parties from Israel’s political game should have been a public earthquake. This is not a single candidate whose remarks have been picked over at length – such as Balad leader Sami Abu Shehadeh, barred over an article he wrote the day after October 7. It is every last Arab party.