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Jerusalem Post says the committee bars "Arab party Ra'am"; Haaretz says it "moves to bar" and the court may reverse it

Three Israeli outlets carry the same vote a month before the election. They disagree on what the party is called, on whether the decision is final, and none of them lets anyone who was barred speak.

Central Elections Committee panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in upcoming elections
Central Elections Committee panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in upcoming elections as published by The Jerusalem Post · seen at The Jerusalem Post
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What happened. The Central Elections Committee voted on 23 September to disqualify Ra'am — the United Arab List — from the election for the 26th Knesset. The Jerusalem Post, Arutz Sheva and Haaretz all carry it. Arutz Sheva and Haaretz say the committee also barred MK Ofer Cassif of Hadash and Balad's Sami Abu Shehadeh; the Jerusalem Post says the Cassif decision came earlier the same day.

Where the accounts part.

Outlet Calls the party Says the committee Tells the reader what happens next
The Jerusalem Post "Arab party Ra'am" "bars" nothing
Arutz Sheva "Ra'am" "disqualified" — no actor in the headline nothing
Haaretz "the UAL", "United Arab List" "moves to bar" "may be reversed by appeal to the High Court of Justice"

Nobody barred speaks. In the four reports we hold, not one quotes Ra'am, Cassif, Abu Shehadeh or a lawyer for any of them. The only politician quoted is Israeli: Haaretz reports members of Yashar pressing Gadi Eisenkot to rule out a coalition with the same party after Yashar "slipped in recent polls". Eisenkot "resisted making such a declaration but said the party did not meet his coalition conditions".

Not settled. Whether the bans hold. Haaretz alone says they may be reversed by the High Court; no other report we hold mentions an appeal, and none contradicts it. We hold no vote count, no reasons given by the committee, and no word from the party or the two men.

In one line. A committee of serving Israeli politicians has voted to take an Arab party and two lawmakers off the ballot a month before a national election.

How it got here. Israel elects its 120-seat Knesset by nationwide proportional representation, so a governing majority is assembled from lists after the count. Who may stand is decided first by the Central Elections Committee, a body made up of representatives of the parties already sitting in the Knesset and chaired by a Supreme Court justice — politicians ruling on their rivals' eligibility. Under Israel's Basic Law: the Knesset, a list or a candidate can be barred for rejecting Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, for incitement to racism, or for supporting armed struggle against the state. That clause has been turned on Arab parties, and on the far right, at election after election since the 2000s, and the High Court has overturned such bans before. This is the run-up to the vote for the 26th Knesset, due next month.

The actors. Ra'am, in Arabic the United Arab List, is an Islamist party led by Mansour Abbas; in 2021 it became the first independent Arab party to join an Israeli governing coalition. Balad, which Sami Abu Shehadeh has led, is an Arab nationalist party. Hadash is a Jewish–Arab front on the left; Ofer Cassif is its Jewish member of the Knesset, which Haaretz is the only report we hold to mention. Yashar is the party of Gadi Eisenkot, a former army chief of staff now in the Israeli opposition.

What is at stake. Palestinian citizens of Israel vote, and Ra'am is one of the parties they vote for. Take it off the ballot and both their representation and the arithmetic of the next coalition change — which is why, in Haaretz's second report, the same party is being argued over as a coalition partner on the day it is being barred.

Where it stands. The committee has voted. Haaretz says the decisions may be appealed to the High Court. Nobody barred has been heard from in anything we hold.

The story so far

Earlier stories The AI Times filed on this thread.

What is being argued about

  • The Central Elections Committee's vote to disqualify Ra'am from the election for the 26th Knesset
  • The bans on MK Ofer Cassif of Hadash and Balad's Sami Abu Shehadeh
  • Whether the decisions are final or open to appeal at the High Court of Justice
  • Ra'am argued over as a coalition partner on the day it was barred
One vote, four descriptionsSide by side
OutletWhat it calls the partyWhat it says was doneHedged?Appeal mentioned?
The Jerusalem Post"Arab party Ra'am""bars ... from running in upcoming elections"NoNo
Arutz Sheva"Ra'am""also disqualified" — the headline names no actor; the body names the committeeNoNo
Haaretz"the UAL""moves to bar"YesYes — "may be reversed by appeal to the High Court of Justice"
Haaretz, on the coalition"United Arab List", "UAL"does not report the bar; reports the same party as a coalition question—No
Quotes are from each report's headline or opening line.
Sources The Jerusalem Post
Centre-right estimate · not a score
The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Central Elections Committee panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in upcoming elections Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Jerusalem Post → What we have measured A count the body does not carry the headline says eight countries; the sentence names seven foreign ministers ×1Actor framing The Gulf ministers are the ones acting. Iran is the party they meet. ×1Actor generalised The headline has 'Baghdad' celebrating. The photo caption says the crowd is supporters of one armed group. ×1Actor named names the militias and calls the act 'desecration', in its own voice ×1 from 4111 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → A Arutz Sheva
Right estimate · not a score
Arutz Sheva 🇮🇱IL · digital · After Cassif and Abu Shehadeh: Ra’am also disqualified Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Arutz Sheva → What we have measured A caveat kept in the only report we hold that says the rejection was of a promo, not the finished film ×1A different word, and a hedge Calls the same event an airstrike rather than a controlled demolition, and marks it "Reported" while offering footage as its evidence. ×1An allegation stated as established the headline presents the plan as fact and as a disclosure, with no attribution to the charge sheet ×1Asserted flat Calls it a 'terror network' and says Iran helped build it, in its own voice, with no source. ×1 from 2982 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel's elections committee moves to bar Hadash's Jewish MK Ofer Cassif Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Yashar members press Eisenkot to formally rule out coalition with United Arab List Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
23 September, as it was publishedTimeline
  1. 2026-09-2306:40 published time, Haaretz Haaretz Reports the elections committee moving to bar Cassif, and says the bans on the UAL, Abu Shehadeh and Cassif may be reversed by appeal to the High Court 3 barredThe only report we hold that names an appeal route
  2. 2026-09-2312:37 published time, Haaretz Haaretz Reports Yashar members pressing Gadi Eisenkot to rule out a coalition with the United Arab List; he declines to declare it, but says the party does not meet his conditionsSame party, same day, as coalition arithmetic
  3. 2026-09-2313:15 published time, Arutz Sheva Arutz Sheva Reports the committee voted to disqualify Ra'am from the election for the 26th Knesset, following its decisions on Cassif and Abu ShehadehThe headline carries no actor
  4. 2026-09-2316:11 published time, The Jerusalem Post The Jerusalem Post Reports the committee panel barred Ra'am, and that it had barred Cassif earlier the same dayThe only report that orders the two decisions
Times as published by each outlet, in UTC. We hold no time for the committee's votes themselves — only for the reports of them.
Sources Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel's elections committee moves to bar Hadash's Jewish MK Ofer Cassif Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Yashar members press Eisenkot to formally rule out coalition with United Arab List Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → A Arutz Sheva
Right estimate · not a score
Arutz Sheva 🇮🇱IL · digital · After Cassif and Abu Shehadeh: Ra’am also disqualified Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Arutz Sheva → What we have measured A caveat kept in the only report we hold that says the rejection was of a promo, not the finished film ×1A different word, and a hedge Calls the same event an airstrike rather than a controlled demolition, and marks it "Reported" while offering footage as its evidence. ×1An allegation stated as established the headline presents the plan as fact and as a disclosure, with no attribution to the charge sheet ×1Asserted flat Calls it a 'terror network' and says Iran helped build it, in its own voice, with no source. ×1 from 2982 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Jerusalem Post
Centre-right estimate · not a score
The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Central Elections Committee panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in upcoming elections Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Jerusalem Post → What we have measured A count the body does not carry the headline says eight countries; the sentence names seven foreign ministers ×1Actor framing The Gulf ministers are the ones acting. Iran is the party they meet. ×1Actor generalised The headline has 'Baghdad' celebrating. The photo caption says the crowd is supporters of one armed group. ×1Actor named names the militias and calls the act 'desecration', in its own voice ×1 from 4111 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

Nobody who was barred speaks

Four reports carry the disqualification of a party and two members of the Knesset a month before the vote. None of them quotes Ra'am, Ofer Cassif, Sami Abu Shehadeh, a lawyer or any voter affected. One report tells a reader the decisions can be appealed to the High Court.

4 reports on the disqualifications 0 reports quoting anyone who was barred 1 reports naming the appeal route

One party, two names

Two reports call the party Ra'am; two call it the United Arab List or UAL. A reader following the story across them is not told these are the same party.

2 reports calling it Ra'am 2 reports calling it the United Arab List
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources The Jerusalem Post
Centre-right estimate · not a score
The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Central Elections Committee panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in upcoming elections Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Jerusalem Post → What we have measured A count the body does not carry the headline says eight countries; the sentence names seven foreign ministers ×1Actor framing The Gulf ministers are the ones acting. Iran is the party they meet. ×1Actor generalised The headline has 'Baghdad' celebrating. The photo caption says the crowd is supporters of one armed group. ×1Actor named names the militias and calls the act 'desecration', in its own voice ×1 from 4111 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → A Arutz Sheva
Right estimate · not a score
Arutz Sheva 🇮🇱IL · digital · After Cassif and Abu Shehadeh: Ra’am also disqualified Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Arutz Sheva → What we have measured A caveat kept in the only report we hold that says the rejection was of a promo, not the finished film ×1A different word, and a hedge Calls the same event an airstrike rather than a controlled demolition, and marks it "Reported" while offering footage as its evidence. ×1An allegation stated as established the headline presents the plan as fact and as a disclosure, with no attribution to the charge sheet ×1Asserted flat Calls it a 'terror network' and says Iran helped build it, in its own voice, with no source. ×1 from 2982 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel's elections committee moves to bar Hadash's Jewish MK Ofer Cassif Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Yashar members press Eisenkot to formally rule out coalition with United Arab List Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

true The Central Elections Committee disqualified Ra'am (the United Arab List) from running in the election for the 26th Knesset.
The Jerusalem Post, Arutz Sheva and Haaretz all report the disqualification. They differ only in sequencing, with the Jerusalem Post noting the Cassif decision came earlier the same day.
Checked against 3 sources:
The Jerusalem Post
Centre-right estimate · not a score
The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Central Elections Committee panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in upcoming elections Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Jerusalem Post → What we have measured A count the body does not carry the headline says eight countries; the sentence names seven foreign ministers ×1Actor framing The Gulf ministers are the ones acting. Iran is the party they meet. ×1Actor generalised The headline has 'Baghdad' celebrating. The photo caption says the crowd is supporters of one armed group. ×1Actor named names the militias and calls the act 'desecration', in its own voice ×1 from 4111 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → A Arutz Sheva
Right estimate · not a score
Arutz Sheva 🇮🇱IL · digital · After Cassif and Abu Shehadeh: Ra’am also disqualified Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Arutz Sheva → What we have measured A caveat kept in the only report we hold that says the rejection was of a promo, not the finished film ×1A different word, and a hedge Calls the same event an airstrike rather than a controlled demolition, and marks it "Reported" while offering footage as its evidence. ×1An allegation stated as established the headline presents the plan as fact and as a disclosure, with no attribution to the charge sheet ×1Asserted flat Calls it a 'terror network' and says Iran helped build it, in its own voice, with no source. ×1 from 2982 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel's elections committee moves to bar Hadash's Jewish MK Ofer Cassif Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
true The committee also barred MK Ofer Cassif of Hadash and Balad's Sami Abu Shehadeh.
Arutz Sheva and Haaretz both name Cassif and Abu Shehadeh as barred ahead of the Ra'am vote, and the Jerusalem Post confirms the Cassif decision. Haaretz is the only report we hold that says Cassif is Jewish.
Checked against 3 sources:
A Arutz Sheva
Right estimate · not a score
Arutz Sheva 🇮🇱IL · digital · After Cassif and Abu Shehadeh: Ra’am also disqualified Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Arutz Sheva → What we have measured A caveat kept in the only report we hold that says the rejection was of a promo, not the finished film ×1A different word, and a hedge Calls the same event an airstrike rather than a controlled demolition, and marks it "Reported" while offering footage as its evidence. ×1An allegation stated as established the headline presents the plan as fact and as a disclosure, with no attribution to the charge sheet ×1Asserted flat Calls it a 'terror network' and says Iran helped build it, in its own voice, with no source. ×1 from 2982 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel's elections committee moves to bar Hadash's Jewish MK Ofer Cassif Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Jerusalem Post
Centre-right estimate · not a score
The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Central Elections Committee panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in upcoming elections Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Jerusalem Post → What we have measured A count the body does not carry the headline says eight countries; the sentence names seven foreign ministers ×1Actor framing The Gulf ministers are the ones acting. Iran is the party they meet. ×1Actor generalised The headline has 'Baghdad' celebrating. The photo caption says the crowd is supporters of one armed group. ×1Actor named names the militias and calls the act 'desecration', in its own voice ×1 from 4111 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified The disqualifications can be overturned on appeal to the High Court of Justice.
Only Haaretz says the bans on Ra'am, Abu Shehadeh and Cassif may be reversed by appeal to the High Court. No other report we hold mentions an appeal route, and none contradicts it.
Checked against 1 source:
Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel's elections committee moves to bar Hadash's Jewish MK Ofer Cassif Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

M Michael Hauser Tov Haaretz · 2 reports on this story
What the bias passes found in their reporting
How a person is labelled the one Jewish MK barred is labelled by religion; the two Palestinian figures are not labelled at all×1
Naming the same party is called the United Arab List here and Ra'am elsewhere, with no report giving both names×1
Stated or attributed a different second job is stated flat, with no source given×1
The frame chosen the barred party appears as coalition arithmetic and a polling problem, not as a party removed from a ballot×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 unverified2 true
From 35 reports we hold under this byline, at Haaretz. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
The bylines on the reports this story is built from. Hover one for what our passes have measured on their reporting. · 2 reports we hold carry no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

The Jerusalem Post
Centre-right estimate · not a score
The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Central Elections Committee panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in upcoming elections Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Jerusalem Post → What we have measured A count the body does not carry the headline says eight countries; the sentence names seven foreign ministers ×1Actor framing The Gulf ministers are the ones acting. Iran is the party they meet. ×1Actor generalised The headline has 'Baghdad' celebrating. The photo caption says the crowd is supporters of one armed group. ×1Actor named names the militias and calls the act 'desecration', in its own voice ×1 from 4111 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
The one report that orders the two decisions against each other: the committee barred Cassif "earlier in the day", before the vote on Ra'am. It is also the only report carrying a photograph, of Ra'am's leader Mansour
Earlier in the day, the CEC announced it had barred MK Ofer Cassif from running in the elections.
How a party is labelled: the barred party is identified by ethnicity in the headline, where the other barred figures are named individually — “Central Elections Committee panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in upcoming elections”
How the party is labelled: the party is identified by ethnicity in the headline rather than by its politics or its bloc — “Central Elections Committee panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in upcoming elections”
Whose account is the default: the barring body is the only source; no barred candidate or party is quoted — “Earlier in the day, the CEC announced it had barred MK Ofer Cassif from running in the elections.”
Read it at The Jerusalem Post → https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-909454
A Arutz Sheva
Right estimate · not a score
Arutz Sheva 🇮🇱IL · digital · After Cassif and Abu Shehadeh: Ra’am also disqualified Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Arutz Sheva → What we have measured A caveat kept in the only report we hold that says the rejection was of a promo, not the finished film ×1A different word, and a hedge Calls the same event an airstrike rather than a controlled demolition, and marks it "Reported" while offering footage as its evidence. ×1An allegation stated as established the headline presents the plan as fact and as a disclosure, with no attribution to the charge sheet ×1Asserted flat Calls it a 'terror network' and says Iran helped build it, in its own voice, with no source. ×1 from 2982 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
The only report that presents the three bans as one run of decisions — Cassif and Abu Shehadeh, then Ra'am — and the only one whose headline states the disqualification without naming who did it.
The Central Elections Committee voted to disqualify Ra’am from running in the elections for the 26th Knesset, following its decisions regarding Cassif and Abu Shehadeh.
Who is named as acting: the headline carries the disqualification with no actor named; the body supplies the committee — “After Cassif and Abu Shehadeh: Ra’am also disqualified”
Who is named as acting: the headline drops the actor — the party is "disqualified" by nobody; the body names the committee — “After Cassif and Abu Shehadeh: Ra’am also disqualified”
Read it at Arutz Sheva → https://www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/693987
Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Yashar members press Eisenkot to formally rule out coalition with United Arab List Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
The only report that shows the same party being weighed as a coalition partner the same day: Yashar members pressing Eisenkot to rule it out after the party slipped in polls, and Eisenkot declining to declare it.
oNavigationAccount Details Haaretz - back to home page SearchAccessibility Elections HQ Poll Tracker Fact Checker Minority Government Ruthless Opposition Why Vote? Current section Party members urged Eisenkot to publicly rule out a coalition with UAL after Yashar slipped in recent polls; he resisted making such a declaration but said the party did not meet his coalition conditions Ad-free and in a comfortable reading format Members of Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party have urged him to publicly declare that he will not form a government with the United Arab List, but Eisenkot has resisted making su
The frame chosen: the barred party appears as coalition arithmetic and a polling problem, not as a party removed from a ballot — “he resisted making such a declaration but said the party did not meet his coalition conditions”
Naming: the same party is called the United Arab List here and Ra'am elsewhere, with no report giving both names — “Yashar members press Eisenkot to formally rule out coalition with United Arab List”
What the exclusion is measured against: ruling out the same party is framed by polling numbers, not by the bar or by law — “Party members urged Eisenkot to publicly rule out a coalition with UAL after Yashar slipped in recent polls”
Read it at Haaretz → https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2026-09-23/ty-article/.pr…
Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel's elections committee moves to bar Hadash's Jewish MK Ofer Cassif Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
The only report that says the bans can be reversed on appeal to the High Court of Justice, the only one that hedges the decision as a move to bar rather than a done act, and the only one that says Cassif is Jewish.
oNavigationAccount Details Haaretz - back to home page SearchAccessibility Elections HQ Poll Tracker Fact Checker Minority Government Ruthless Opposition Why Vote? Current section The decision to ban the UAL, the Joint List and Balad's party leader Sami Abu Shehadeh and Jewish MK Ofer Cassif from Hadash is expected to reach the Israel High Court for review Ad-free and in a comfortable reading format Israel's Central Elections Committee voted Wednesday to disqualify Mansour Abbas' United Arab List slate from running in the election, as well as the Joint List, which consists of the parties Hadas
Which attribute is chosen: the barred member's religion is put in the headline as the point of interest — “Israel's elections committee moves to bar Hadash's Jewish MK Ofer Cassif”
What the reader is told can happen next: the only report that tells a reader the bans are appealable — “may be reversed by appeal to the High Court of Justice”
How a person is labelled: the one Jewish MK barred is labelled by religion; the two Palestinian figures are not labelled at all — “Israel's elections committee moves to bar Hadash's Jewish MK Ofer Cassif”
What is hedged: the same decision others report as done is hedged to "moves to bar", and the report alone names the remedy — “may be reversed by appeal to the High Court of Justice”
Read it at Haaretz → https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2026-09-23/ty-article/.pr…
Checked, didn’t cover
Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation 🇵🇸PS · TV/radio · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted versus attributed recognition itself stated as fact ×1Attribution 'historic' attributed to the Palestinian ambassador ×1Dead counted, not named two dead are counted as 'citizens' and none are named; the wounded are not counted ×1Dead named Gives the dead man's full name and age. ×1 from 766 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency)
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency) 🇮🇷IR · state agency · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A contested word in the headline "illegal" is a Chinese spokesperson's characterisation, carried unmarked in the headline ×1A contested word taken as the report's own "illegal" appears in the headline without quotation marks or attribution to the speaker ×1Acted upon, never acting police are named as acting; whoever hoarded a billion toman of staples is not named at all ×1Actor label The Houthi-run authority is called Yemen's transport ministry. ×1 from 15038 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Ynet
Centre estimate · not a score
Ynet 🇮🇱IL · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A claim in the headline that the other reports very close to deciding the regime appears in one report only ×1Active voice The killers are the subject of the verbs 'beat' and 'burned'. ×1Active voice The killers are named as acting ×1Army's term, attributed the army names the target of its strikes, and no one on the other side is quoted ×1 from 2684 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → North Press Agency
Centre estimate · not a score
North Press Agency 🇸🇾SY · wire · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Attribution the damage list is carried in full, attributed to the side claiming it ×1Single official source Uses the Saudi Press Agency's account: 'bilateral relations', with no mention of reconstruction or money. ×1What is at stake presents the stakes as trade and energy security; no ship, crew or price is counted ×1Which line is led with led by the legal instrument, naming the Security Council resolution by number ×1 from 1169 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Monitor
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Al-Monitor 🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor from anonymous officials Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc ×1Actor named Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal ×1Actor named names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel ×1Actor named names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians ×1 from 1566 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Tehran Times
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Tehran Times 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed headline states the seizure flat; the body attributes it to the claimant ×1Attribution the toll is attributed to a body that is described but not named ×1Headline against body headline states the seizure flat; the body attributes it to the IRGC ×1How the objectors are framed opposition is described as protesters speaking for civilians ×1 from 1753 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al Jazeera English
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Al Jazeera English 🇶🇦QA · TV/radio · state-funded international No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusation attributed Cuba's charge is attributed to its foreign minister, not stated as fact ×1Actor named The headline names Israel as the actor and gives a count of three that includes a child. ×1Agency No actor is named for the detentions. The raids, not the soldiers, 'left' the town in lockdown ×1Agency Names Israel as the actor in the headline, in active voice ×1 from 4959 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → An-Nahar
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An-Nahar 🇱🇧LB · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1 from 10777 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
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LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Silence is recorded, not inferred — each of these was read when we built this story and carried nothing on this event.
We could not read these
K Kan · Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation
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Kan · Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation 🇮🇱IL · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Times of Israel
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The Times of Israel 🇮🇱IL · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actorless in own voice The killing is passive with no shooter in the se ×1Headline carries the purpose The livestock and the army's reason are in the h ×1Headline frame The headline carries the military's word for the ×1Military words carried whole Both the label for the dead and the phrase for t ×1 from 149 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → A Al-Sabaah
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Al-Sabaah 🇮🇶IQ · newspaper · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Ma'an News Agency
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Ma'an News Agency 🇵🇸PS · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al Rai
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Al Rai 🇯🇴JO · newspaper · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Mada
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Al-Mada 🇮🇶IQ · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Shargh
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Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency
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WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency 🇵🇸PS · state agency · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency)
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SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency) 🇸🇾SY · state agency · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Manar
State-owned, sometimes critical estimate · not a score
Al-Manar 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Galei Tzahal (Army Radio)
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Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) 🇮🇱IL · TV/radio · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Middle East Eye
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Middle East Eye 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured How hard the claim is stated Its own body says the investigators did not attribute the network to the Emirati state — the qualification its headline drops. ×1How hard the claim is stated The body withdraws in one line the attribution its own headline makes ×1How deeply it is sourced Cites its own past reporting as the evidence for the claim in its own headline, and calls the evidence widespread in its own voice ×1How deeply it is sourced Offers its own past reporting as the evidence supporting the claim in its headline, inside the same sentence that carries the denial. ×1 from 125 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Ammon News
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Ammon News 🇯🇴JO · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times →
These are must-cite outlets for this desk that we did not manage to read when we built this story. That is a gap in our reach, not a silence on their part, and it is not evidence of anything about this story.

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