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Where to draw the line?

The Supreme Court overturned the decision to invalidate Haneen Zoabi's candidacy. What happened?

Zoabi arrives at court
Photo by: Reuters/Ammar Awad
Israel, says Balad MK Haneen Zoabi, is “either a democracy or it is not. We never claimed as Palestinians in Israel that Israel has been a democracy since its establishment.

We think [that] as long as [Israel] maintains policies as a Jewish state, it cannot be a democracy. This is not just a matter of policies or government, it is a matter of basic perception of the state [and of] basic ideology.”

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