Petition on banning of Arabs from Israeli elections

[Conghaileach]

Please sign the below mentioned petition. Go to
http://azmibishara.info
to
sign the following petition,
and forward to others ...



We, the undesigned, are gravely concerned by the
threat to ban Arab
political figures, foremost among them MK Azmi
Bishara, and his
party, the National Democratic Assembly, from
participating in the
upcoming Israeli elections. We call upon the Israeli
High Court of
Justice not to sanction such a scandalous decision.

MK Azmi Bishara's political program, which calls to
democratize the
State of Israel into a state for all its
citizens-Arabs and Jews
alike-is not a threat to democracy. It is legitimate
not to agree
with it, but it is not legitimate to forbid him from
proposing it to
the Israeli electorate within a democratic campaign.

The Arab citizens of Israel, who comprise 20% of the
population, have
the right to a democratically elected leadership that
will represent
them, their needs, and their hopes. Banning one of
their most
outspoken leaders-re-elected consistently since 1996
and expected to
garner more votes than ever in the upcoming
elections-means depriving
them of their basic civil rights.

We call upon all democrats, in Israel and around the
world, to
mobilize against this threat. We implore the Israeli
High Court of
Justice to rule in favor of democracy and against
discrimination and
censorship.

We ask that the right of the National Democratic
Assembly and its
candidate, MK Azmi Bishara, to participate in free and
fair elections
be upheld, and, by extension, the rights of their
voters-Jewish and
Arab citizens of the State of Israel-to be represented
in the Knesset.

[Reuben]

I heard about this. Typical of the fascist character of 'the only democracy in the midde east'

[Blasphemy]

it's fucking sick. the court is probably going to revoke the decision, and allow Bishara and Tibi to run.

[Comrade Daniel]

The world is a strange thing...

[El Brujo]

Its an apartheid state, what do you expect. The U.S. is fond of supporting fascists and white-supremacists, claiming that their "pro-democracy"

(Edited by El Brujo at 3:31 am on Jan. 7, 2003)

[Pavan Sohal]

I dunno. Removing the vote of arabs would all but ensure that a Palestinian state would be neccessary at some time, because they would no longer have any representation.

[new democracy]

I already signed it. and they are going to ban not only the National Democratic Assembly, but also the other Arab nationalist parties and parties that have major support from Arabs. although i oppose any kind of nationalism, i oppose the ban.

[Blackberry]

I signed it and posted it at a number of other message boards as well.

[Blasphemy]

okay, dudes. the supreme court revoked the decision to disqualify Bishara, Tibi and Balad from the elections. i hate to say it, but i told you so :)

[Larissa]

Today the Israeli supreme court decided in favor of the two Arab paraliamentarians Ahmad Tibi and Asmi Bshara, who had been disqualified by the election committee from participating in the upcoming parliamentary elections on the grounds of negating the
Jewish character of the state of Israel.