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Racist Election Propaganda Disguised as Legislation

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Bill To Designate Muslim Brotherhood and Southern Branch of Islamic Movement as Terrorist Organizations and To Remove Terrorism-Supporting Parties From Register of Political Parties, 2026, introduced by Otzma Yehudit MKs Tzvika Fogel and Limor Son Har-Melech, in effect amounts to racist election propaganda and to an incitement manifesto disguised as ordinary legislation.

The bill combines two unrelated provisions, both extreme and anti-democratic. Besides constituting improper personal legislation, the first clause designates the Muslim Brotherhood and the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement as terror organizations, bypassing the procedures established under the Counter-Terrorism Law of 2016. The second clause requires the Registrar of Political Parties to remove from the register any party whose goals or actions, explicitly or implicitly, support “the armed struggle of an enemy state or a terrorist organization against the State of Israel,” without providing any mechanism for appeal or review of the decision. The combination of these two provisions is intended to erase Ra’am from the register of political parties and prevent it from running for election, as explicitly stated in the explanatory notes accompanying the bill.

The sponsors of the bill are fully aware that its provisions do not meet any legal test and that it is thus unenforceable, will not survive judicial review by the High Court of Justice, and is highly unlikely to be enacted in its current form. Their objective is not to secure its passage, but rather to amplify the message that there is a connection between Ra’am and Mansour Abbas and terrorists and terror organizations. This is particularly ironic given that the leader of Otzma Yehudit was himself convicted of supporting a terrorist organization.

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Dr. Maha Sabbah Karkabi

 

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel Aviv University (2015), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London (2015-2016), a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University (2016-2017), and a postdoctoral fellowship Ph.D. at the Humphrey Institute for Social Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2018-2020).
Dr. Maha Karbahi’s areas of interest focus on the connection between social change, family behavior, and gender inequality in societies in the process of change and specifically in Palestinian Arab society in Israel. Her research draws attention to the study of family life and employment, using a combined “ethnic lens” and “gender lens” and paying attention to the perspective of Palestinian Arab women, a group characterized by intersections between multiple marginal locations, which over the years has remained hidden from the research eye. Dr. Karkabi-Sabah’s research is published in professional journals and chapters in scientific books that are considered pioneers in family research, work, and gender equality.

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Prof. Frances Raday

Professor Emeritus in the Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and serves as a full professor in the College of Management’s academic track, where she also serves as chair of the graduate program and as honorary president of the Concord Center for International Law Absorption. Radai was a member of a working group of the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination against women. In addition, she is a prominent and feminist human rights activist.

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Dr. Rawia Aburabia 

Faculty member of Sapir Academic College’s School of Law, received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research deals with the interface between law, gender, minorities, and human rights. Has published in leading journals on the subject of the matrimonial laws pertaining to Muslim women in Israel. Her book Under the Law, Outside Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizenship, and Colonialism in Israeli Law is expected to be published as part of the Gender Series of Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House.

Dr. Aburabia has extensive experience in international human rights and public law. She has worked as a jurist for the Association for Civil Right and has been invited as a specialist to address such international forums as the United Nations and the European Parliament on the subject of indigenous communities and minority rights. She has interned with Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, and has been a member of the executive board of Amnesty International. In 2018, she was selected by the magazine Globes as one of the 40 most promising young persons in Israel under the age of 40.

 

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Ron Kessler

With over two decades of experience in the field of digital content, Ron has participated in numerous political and social campaigns. He helped run the digital activity of senior public officials, and worked in various NGOs. Ron is a fundamentally optimistic man, who believes that Israel can be changed and so can people. Lives in Tel Aviv.