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What’s really behind police raids on Israeli-Arab party?

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Published: 24 September 2016

Last updated: 4 March 2024

What’s really behind police raids on Israeli-Arab party? – Shlomi Eldar – Al-Monitor 19.09.16
Routine investigation of alleged campaign finance law violations or continuation of ‘political persecution’? Transgressions by other parties, e.g. Likud, have been treated differently.

How Israel is turning one Arab party into a security threat
– Orly Noy – +972 Magazine 20.09.16
Balad isn’t the first political party in Israel to be suspected of violating campaign finance laws. But it is the first one to have its members arrested in overnight, commando-style raids. Defining Balad as a security threat exempts Israel from the need to deal with the party’s legitimate national and civil demands.

And see:

Ex-Netanyahu adviser says PM ‘panicked,’ tried to cover up salary – The Times of Israel 16.09.16
Odelia Karmon, a former adviser to Netanyahu, tells police he tried to cover up payments she received from the American Friends of Likud while in his employ. She later gave back money at Netanyahu’s prodding and A-G has closed probe into matter.

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MK Nachman Shai (Zionist Union/Labor): ‘History will not forgive those who had a hand in this.’

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