Likud seeks to bar two Arab lists from Israel’s next Knesset election

Israel’s Likud party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday it plans to submit requests to prevent the Joint List and the United Arab List (Ra’am) from running in the next Knesset election, scheduled for October. “Likud will submit requests to prevent the Joint List and Ra’am from taking part in the election,” the party said in a statement. It claimed that “there is no place in the Knesset for those who insult Israeli army soldiers and cannot say that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organisations”. Likud also described the two Arab lists as “supporters of terrorism” as part of its attack on Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party. The party claimed the two lists were Eisenkot’s […]