Summary
The list led by attorney and former Rakah activist Muhammad Mi’ari, formed in 1983, which in Chapter 10 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine rivalled Hadash while sharing its two-state positions (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.278).
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It included radical Jewish leftists and former Abna’ al-Balad members who disagreed with refusing Knesset elections; in 1984 it received 18 percent of the Arab vote against the DFPE’s 33 percent (PDF p.278).
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In Chapter 2 of Stateless Citizenship (2013), the joint Jewish-Arab PLP is the party of Ben Shalom Case: on the eve of the 1988 elections Likud and Techiya members petitioned the Central Elections Committee to disqualify it because its platform stated it “will struggle for another Israel, an Israel that is for all of its citizens” (Schmidt 2001, 282); its position was that a Jewish-defined state cannot treat its non-Jewish citizens as equals and a democratic state could not give preference to a specific social group (Peled 1992, 437), and Peled notes it did not demand the Law of Return be annulled but that the right of return be extended to Palestinian refugees (PDF p.93-94). The Court allowed it to participate by 3-2.
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Democratic Front for Peace and Equality, Rakah, Stateless Citizenship (2013), Ben Shalom Case