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Far-right mobs have been targeting a pioneering Arab Israeli journalist for encouraging Arab Israelis to vote

JL;DR SUMMARY Lucy Aharish, a pioneering Arab Israeli journalist, has faced harassment and threats from far-right Jewish mobs due to her advocacy for Arab Israeli voter participation in the upcoming elections. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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AdlNetanyahuIsraeli ElectionsHarassmentArab IsraelisFar Right ExtremismDaniel PearlChannel 13Media FreedomLucy Aharish

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Stanford, California, United States
"Lucy Aharish was supposed to be in the United States this week, delivering a lecture at Stanford University in honor of Daniel Pearl, the Jewish journalist murdered by jihadist militants in Pakistan in 2002."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Instead, the Arab Israeli journalist was hunkered down in her native Israel, trying to keep her family safe from far-right Jewish mobs that have been rallying nightly outside the Tel Aviv apartment she shares with her young child and husband, the Jewish Fauda star Tzahi Halevi."
Israel
"They have also called Aharish a whore and called out her 5-year-old son by name."
Iran
"Even with the threat of war with Iran simmering, the journalist Nadav Eyal has called the protests against Aharish the most important political story in Israel right now, saying that they demonstrate the empowerment of fringe figures like David by the political establishment and increasing efforts to quash dissenting voices, including in the media."

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