A Duty, Not A Crime: Anti-Fascist Politician Israel Wants Silenced

Join Dr. Ofer Cassif, Israeli Knesset member for Hadash and the only Jewish member of the Arab-majority party's delegation, as he traces the road from a Labor Zionist childhood to communist conviction.

He tells Dr. Hani Chaabo and Katie Bogen why he refused reservist duty in Gaza during the First Intifada and served four terms in military prison, how he survived an expulsion vote of 85 fellow MKs, and what it means to be suspended, silenced, and dragged from the podium simply for quoting a beloved Israeli novelist. From a memorial in Masafer Yatta to a Darwish poem, this is dissent as a way of life. Weeks before the October 27 election, Israel's Central Elections Committee voted to bar him from running.

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Cover photo of Ofer Cassif: Amir Deeb, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).

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