Mansour Abbas, who heads the Raam faction, attends a hearing Israel’s Supreme Court in Jerusalem March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun. Israeli Arab leader Mansour Abbas — head of the Islamic Ra’am party, which last year joined the country’s governing coalition — said he would not use the word “apartheid” to describe relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel. Asked at an online conversation organized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy about hearing that label applied to the Jewish state, Abbas said: “I would not call it apartheid.” “I am in the coalition, and if I want to be...
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