Arab MK calls for removal of campaign posters against intermarriage

A lawmaker from the Joint (Arab) List says she’ll ask Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to order the removal of campaign posters of the national religious Jewish Home party in the central city of Ramle for alleged incitement.

The posters, which were put up in the mixed Arab Jewish city ahead of municipal elections later this month, decry interfaith marriages between Jews and Muslims.

“There are hundreds of instances of assimilation in Ramle and no one cares. Tomorrow this can be your daughter,” the poster says, below which is a Jewish-looking woman wearing a Muslim headscarf.

“Only a strong Jewish Home will preserve a Jewish Ramle,” it adds.

MK Neveen Abu Rahmoun, who was sworn in as a MK yesterday, accuses Jewish Home of using “messages of racism, incitement and intimidation” to boost its electoral prospects.

“It appears that for some [electoral] lists, incitement seems to be the only tool of persuasion,” she writes on Twitter.

She says she’ll reach out to Mandelblit about removing the posters, which she compares to an election campaign of the Likud party in Tel Aviv that has sparked controversy.

מודעה מטעם רשימת הבית היהודי לראשות העיר רמלה: "מאות מקרי התבוללות ברמלה ולאף אחד לא אכפת. מחר זו יכולה להיות הבת שלך" pic.twitter.com/thcPyAwATr

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