In over two dozen Election Day posts, the prime minister and his allies called on supporters to mitigate Arab voters' influence and shared unverified images purporting to show crowded polling stations in Arab cities
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly warned on Tuesday of what he claimed was unusually high voter turnout in Arab communities, accusing Arab voters and left-wing parties of trying to “steal the election.”
In a series of social media posts, Netanyahu shared photos of Arab citizens casting their ballots alongside images of supposedly empty polling stations in cities considered Likud strongholds.
“Steal” the election by going out to vote while your voters stay home. He explained in text with supporting imagery how this wasn’t fake votes for his opponents or discarded votes from his supporters, but calls it stealing nevertheless.
Also, I don’t know what Israel’s voting situation is like, but crowded polling places in minority areas and empty (i.e., fast and convenient) polling places in majority areas sounds like the intended results of voter suppression efforts.
There have been countless reports of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship being asked arbitrary questions, being held up for hours from voting, or the voting locations randomly shutting down for no reason.
The right has become way too comfortable with the idea that they’re the only legitimate side to govern any country. It’s “stealing” because it’s “rightfully theirs”, and any attempt to take that power, however legitimate, is an affront, an offence.
It isn’t about right vs left in Israel. This is about apartheid and racism because those “pesky Arabs” shouldn’t even be allowed to vote. They even tried to make Arab/Palestinian parties illegal and ineligible to run for elections. That’s a good chunk of the rhetoric in israel.
“Steal” the election by going out to vote while your voters stay home. He explained in text with supporting imagery how this wasn’t fake votes for his opponents or discarded votes from his supporters, but calls it stealing nevertheless.
Also, I don’t know what Israel’s voting situation is like, but crowded polling places in minority areas and empty (i.e., fast and convenient) polling places in majority areas sounds like the intended results of voter suppression efforts.
pretty much how places like texas and florida does it with the voter suppression.
There have been countless reports of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship being asked arbitrary questions, being held up for hours from voting, or the voting locations randomly shutting down for no reason.
And yet they increased their parties’ number of Knesset seats significantly.
The right has become way too comfortable with the idea that they’re the only legitimate side to govern any country. It’s “stealing” because it’s “rightfully theirs”, and any attempt to take that power, however legitimate, is an affront, an offence.
It’s the same horseshit that comes out of Trump’s blubbery mouth.
conservatives do not respond well to change thats why, they can only survive in stable enviroment.
It isn’t about right vs left in Israel. This is about apartheid and racism because those “pesky Arabs” shouldn’t even be allowed to vote. They even tried to make Arab/Palestinian parties illegal and ineligible to run for elections. That’s a good chunk of the rhetoric in israel.