# Israeli court ruling marks new suppression of Palestinian voting rights, analyst says

https://mins.news/en/video/82692

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-10-01 23:45 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAW8qrfqbGY

> Sami Abu Shehadeh, a Palestinian-Israeli politician and leader of the Balad Party, has withdrawn his candidacy for the Israeli Knesset after Israel’s Central Elections Committee disqualified him. Ziad Abu Rish, an associate professor at Bard College, says the Israeli Supreme Court’s position represents a new threshold in suppressing Palestinian voting rights.

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