Political reactions quickly pour in, after the Supreme Court overrules a Central Elections Committee decision to bar Joint List MK Heba Yazbak from running in the March 2 elections.
Joint List leader Ayman Odeh predictably welcomes the court ruling.
“The campaign of political incitement by the extreme right has crashed against legal reality,” Odeh says. “MK Yazbak will continue to the next Knesset and fight for peace, equality, and democracy for everyone.”
Yazbak had come under fire for a pair of pasts Facebook posts, including one that praised Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar.
“A disgrace. [Blue and White chairman Benny] Gantz has no government without the Joint List. After today’s decision, whoever wants Heba Yazbak in the opposition and not the government must vote Likud,” Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party says.
Blue and White voted against Yazbak’s candidacy in the Central Elections Committee.
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