"Israeli Apartheid" In Action
Try as hard as they might, the Jooos can't seem to get the hang of that apartheid thing:
...Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously rejected an election committee’s attempt to disqualify an Arab lawmaker from running for parliament again next month because she took part in a flotilla that tried to breach Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
The lawmaker, Hanin Zoabi, enraged many Israelis in 2010 by joining the Turkish-led Mavi Marmara flotilla, which was stormed by Israeli naval commandos who clashed with pro-Palestinian activists, killing nine. The Israeli military says the soldiers acted in self-defence after being attacked on the deck.
Zoabi was nearly assaulted in parliament by another lawmaker and subsequently was stripped of some of her parliamentary privileges.
Earlier this month, an Israeli elections committee voted to disqualify her from running in next month’s election. She appealed that decision to the Supreme Court, which overturned it, as it has rejected the committee’s attempts in previous years to bar other Arab candidates from running.
“I welcome the ruling,” Zoabi said. “I hope this ruling will put an end to the political witch hunt.”
The Toronto Star, on the other hand, has long had the hang of that anti-Zionism thing.
I realize this is not the point of your post, but the Israeli Supreme Court often seems--at best--indifferent to the nation's survival. Even Judge Robert Bork, who had witnessed and studied Leftist judicial activism at its most extreme in the U. S. and numerous other Western countries, and who thought himself inured against its worst excesses, was genuinely shocked when he visited Israel under the auspices of conservative Israeli legal scholars and examined the practices and rulings of the Israeli judiciary. (The Israeli judiciary is excoriated at length in Bork's 2003 book, _Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges_.)
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