Why were far-right Otzma candidates banned by the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court did not ban the entire Otzma Yehudit party from running for election, citing a lack of sufficient evidence that the entire party and its platform are demonstrably racist.
An ad for the Otzma Yehudit party with Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Bentzi Gopstein on a bus in Jerusalem, March, 2019(photo credit: JERUSALEM POST)ByJEREMY SHARON