Ra’am MK: We’ll vote against the Palestinian reunification law

22 June 2021, 2:08 pm

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A lawmaker from Ra’am clarifies the Islamist party will vote against extending the “family unifications law” if it comes up for a Knesset vote, denouncing the legislation — which prevents Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from automatically getting citizenship — as “racist and anti-democratic.”

“It cannot in any way or form pass with the votes of Ra’am’s Knesset members,” MK Waleed Taha writes on Twitter. “I will continue to oppose this law… and Ra’am will vote against the law in the plenum.”

Without the backing of Ra’am and several MKs from Meretz and Labor, the coalition currently lacks a majority to get the law extended, even though most lawmakers in the opposition as well back the legislation, which is set to expire, in principle.