{"id":616258,"date":"2026-09-14T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616258\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:46:09","slug":"israels-ugly-and-undemocratic-efforts-to-bar-arab-parties-must-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616258\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Ugly and Undemocratic Efforts to Bar Arab Parties Must End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">The Netanyahu bloc&#8217;s latest effort to bar Arab parties is not about defending democracy. It is about weakening the opposition and denying a fifth of Israel&#8217;s citizens their full political representation<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">The Knesset election campaign is now in high gear, and with it, a cyclical regularity that rivals the changing seasons \u2013 namely, the ritual of seeking to disqualify Arab parties from running for office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Netanyahu bloc&#8217;s latest effort to bar Arab parties is not about defending democracy. It is about weakening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1157,49,85,46,80775,2649,837,24954,14406,21141,43,35648,250524],"class_list":["post-616258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-arab-israelis","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-supreme-court","tag-israeli-elections","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-joint-list","tag-knesset","tag-likud","tag-news","tag-otzma-yehudit","tag-united-arab-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}