The Supreme Court is debating a petition to disqualify the extremist Otzma Yehidit party and its leaders from the September 17 elections.
The court must approve the Central Elections Committee’s decision to let the far-right party run in in next month’s election re-do. Last month lawmakers sought to have the Otzma Yehudit disqualified from the elections due to its anti-Arab racism.
The party’s Itamar Ben Gvir tells the court that “if Arab-Israeli lawmaker Hanin Zoabi is allowed to run for the Knesset, then there should be no problem with Baruch Marzel.”
“Nothing that he has said comes close to what she has done,” Ben Gvir told the court according to the Kan public broadcaster.
Ben Gvir also noted that Marzel has apologized for his remarks, but the justices reportedly told him that he has apologized many times in the past, but continues to share inflammatory content on social media.
The court is also mulling a petition by Otzma, which is seeking to ban the Joint (Arab) List from running in the elections.
The appeal accuses the Joint List of incitement to terrorism, supporting a terror group, and denying Israel’s existence as a Jewish state
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