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Israeli Court Bars Far-Right Extremist Candidates From September Poll

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08/26/19
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Benzi Gopstein of the extreme-right Israeli Jewish Power party.

Benzi Gopstein of the extreme-right Israeli Jewish Power party. Photo: AFP

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Israel’s Supreme Court has barred two members of an extreme-right party many view as racist from running in a September 17 general election.

The court ruled that candidates Benzi Gopstein and Baruch Marzel of the Jewish Power party could not stand, quoting a law barring “incitement to racism” by candidates, according to a court statement late Sunday.

Jewish Power members are followers of late racist rabbi Meir Kahane, whose Kach movement wanted to chase Arabs from Israel.

The ideology of Kahane, assassinated in New York in 1990, also inspired Baruch Goldstein, who carried out a massacre of 29 Palestinian worshippers in Hebron in 1994.

The court rejected petitions to ban the Jewish Power as a party and upheld the candidacy of West Bank settler Itamar Ben-Gvir, who heads its electoral list.

Ben-Gvir acknowledges having a picture of Goldstein in his living room, but has reportedly said it is because he was a physician who rescued Jews targeted in Palestinian attacks.

Indicted 53 times since his youth, Ben-Gvir boasts of having been cleared in 46 cases. He decided to study law on the recommendation of judges so he could defend himself.

He now represents settlers accused of violence, including those allegedly responsible for an arson attack that killed an 18-month-old Palestinian boy and his parents in 2015 in the West Bank, an incident that drew widespread revulsion.

Jewish Power advocates removing “Israel’s enemies from our land,” a reference to Palestinians and Arab Israelis.

It also calls for Israel annexing the occupied West Bank, where more than 2.5 million Palestinians live.

Polls say it is unlikely to garner the 3.25 percent of votes cast necessary to get into parliament.

A deal mentored by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the April 2019 election saw it entering an electoral alliance with other far-right parties, but it still failed to get into parliament.

The pact drew disgust from many in Israel and among Jewish communities abroad, particularly in the United States.

Netanyahu defended it by saying he did not want any right-wing votes to go to waste as he planned his next coalition.

The party is this time running on its own in September polls, not as part of a larger alliance.

On Monday, Netanyahu ordered hundreds of new settler homes to be built near the site of a bomb attack that killed an Israeli teen in the occupied West Bank.

Settler leaders often say after attacks on Israelis that the right response is settlement growth.

“We will deepen our roots and strike at our enemies,” the statement quoted Netanyahu as saying. “We will continue to strengthen and develop settlement.”

The expansion of settlements in the occupied territories are seen by analysts as a major obstacle to potential peace agreements between Israel and the Palestinians because they render a two-state solution nearly impossible.


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