The KKE strongly condemns the anti-democratic decision taken on 23 September 2026 by Israel’s Central Elections Committee, to exclude the lists of all Arab political coalitions and candidatesfrom the elections, including the candidacy of our comrade of Jewish origin, Ofer Cassif, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel and an elected Member of Parliament.
This unacceptable and anti-democratic practice by the Israeli occupying state once again demonstrates the class nature of bourgeois democracy, particularly in the current context of imperialist interventions and wars, while the State of Israel ruthlessly and in cold blood murders the heroic people of Palestine and the people of Lebanon as part of the plan that aims to “reshape” the wider Middle East.
The New Democracy government and the forces of the sinful social democracy, along with the rest of the convenient opposition, who, for years now have been proclaiming Israel to be a strategic ally of our country, and praising it as “the only democracy” in the Middle East, while the bourgeois Israeli state commits crimes against all neighboring peoples and, at the same time, suppresses every democratic right and achievement within the country itself, have been exposed.