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Ahmad Tibi Criticizes Democrats for Supporting Arab Candidate's Disqualification
MK Ahmad Tibi criticized the Israeli Democrats party and its leader Yair Golan for supporting the disqualification of Arab candidate Sami Abu Shehadeh from the Knesset race. Tibi called the move a democratic error and predicted it would cost the Democrats support among Arab voters.
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What happened
- 01Ahmad Tibi criticized Yair Golan and the Democrats for backing Sami Abu Shehadeh's disqualification.
- 02Tibi called the Democrats' support a serious democratic mistake.
- 03He suggested the vote influenced judicial consideration of the disqualification.
- 04Tibi believes the Democrats' stance has hurt their standing with Arab voters.
- 05He found it bizarre the Democrats joined demands from Otzma Yehudit and Itamar Ben Gvir.
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