以色列最高法院已建议巴 Balad党领袖萨米·阿布·谢哈德（Sami Abu Shehadeh）退出10月27日的议会选举，并警告称，否则法院可能会下达取消其参选资格的裁决。
Israel’s Supreme Court has advised Balad party leader Sami Abu Shehadeh to withdraw from the October 27 Knesset election, warning that it could otherwise issue a ruling disqualifying him.
在此事发生之际，最高法院于周四开始审理针对以色列中央选举委员会关于取消阿拉伯选举名单和候选人议会选举资格决定的上诉。
The development came as the court on Thursday began hearing appeals against decisions by Israel’s Central Elections Committee to disqualify Arab electoral lists and candidates from the parliamentary election.
上周，选举委员会投票决定取消该国两个主要的阿拉伯人占多数的政治名单——莱姆党（Ra’am）以及由哈达什党（Hadash）、塔阿尔党（Ta’al）和巴拉德党（Balad）组成的联合名单（Joint List）。此外，该委员会还着手取消阿布·谢哈德以及来自阿拉伯-犹太人政党哈达什党的犹太籍议员奥弗·卡西夫（Ofer Cassif）的参选资格。
Last week, the elections committee voted to disqualify the country’s two main Arab-majority political lists – Ra’am and the Joint List, which is an alliance of Hadash, Ta’al and Balad. Separately, it moved to disqualify Abu Shehadeh and parliament member Ofer Cassif, a Jewish politician from the Arab-Jewish Hadash party.
阿布·谢哈德是一名来自雅法（Jaffa）的历史学家，曾于2019年9月至2022年11月期间代表联合名单在议会任职；巴拉德党在2022年的大选中未能进入议会。哈达什党议员卡西夫于2019年4月首次出现在哈达什-塔阿尔联合名单上，占据为犹太籍候选人保留的名额。
Abu Shehadeh is a historian from Jaffa who served in the Knesset on the Joint List from September 2019 until November 2022; Balad was voted out of the Knesset in 2022. Hadash legislator Cassif first appeared on the joint Hadash-Ta’al list in April 2019, in the slot reserved for a Jewish candidate.
据以色列公共广播公司报道，周四，由九名法官组成审判小组听取了阿布·谢哈德及其由哈桑·贾巴林（Hassan Jabareen）领导的法律团队的辩论。
On Thursday, the panel of nine justices heard arguments from Abu Shehadeh and his legal team, headed by Hassan Jabareen, according to the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.
据该广播公司报道，最高法院院长伊扎克·阿米特（Yitzhak Amit）对阿布·谢哈德表示，多数法官倾向于取消其候选人资格，并给了他直到周五的时间考虑退选。报道称，如果他不退选，法官们将不得不发布裁决，正式取消其参选资格。
Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit told Abu Shehadeh that a majority of the judges favoured disqualifying his candidacy and gave him until Friday to withdraw, according to the broadcaster. If he does not withdraw, the judges would have to issue a ruling disqualifying his candidacy, according to the report.
国家安全部长伊塔马尔·本-格维尔（Itamar Ben-Gvir）身穿律师袍出庭，其领导的“犹太力量党”（Otzma Yehudit）曾请愿要求取消阿布·谢哈德的资格。“萨米·阿布·谢哈德不能成为议会议员。恐怖主义支持者应该待在监狱里，而不是议会里，”他说。
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose Otzma Yehudit party petitioned to disqualify Abu Shehadeh, appeared in court wearing a lawyer’s robe. “Sami Abu Shehadeh cannot be a member of Knesset. A supporter of terrorism belongs in prison, not in the Knesset,” he said.
阿布·谢哈德被指控同情哈马斯，并且没有谴责2023年10月7日的袭击事件。他在听证会上否认了这些指控，称自己的言论“可能被断章取义”，并表示自己“完全反对任何暴力行为”。
Abu Shehadeh was accused of sympathising with Hamas and of failing to condemn the October 7, 2023 attacks. He denied this at the hearing, saying his words “may have been taken out of context” and that he is “completely opposed to acts of violence”.
总检察长加利·巴哈拉夫-米阿拉以阿布·谢哈德在袭击事件发生次日发表的一篇文章为由，要求取消他的参选资格；她认为该文章表达了对武装斗争的支持。但她反对取消卡西夫（Cassif）及其所属政治联盟的参选资格，认为相关证据并不符合法律规定的标准。
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara backed his disqualification over an article he published a day after October 7, which she said expressed support for armed struggle. She opposed disqualifying Cassif and the Joint List, saying the evidence did not meet the stringent legal threshold.
国际危机组织（International Crisis Group）的以色列问题高级分析师梅拉夫·宗泽因（Mairav Zonszein）对半岛电视台表示，禁止“拉阿姆”（Ra’am）党派的举动尤其引人注目。
‘A dangerous precedent’Mairav Zonszein, a senior Israel analyst with the International Crisis Group, told Al Jazeera that the banning of Ra’am was particularly “striking”.
“禁止‘联合名单’（Joint List）和‘巴拉德’（Balad）党派在以色列政治中几乎已成为一种常态。然而，‘拉阿姆’党派曾参与过多个联合政府；其领导人曼苏尔·阿巴斯（Mansour Abbas）曾在本内特-拉皮德（Bennett-Lapid）政府中担任无具体职责的部长。此外，该党派目前还拥有前警察官员约阿夫·塞加洛维茨（Yoav Segalovitz）这位犹太裔以色列政治人物，这使得这一禁令显得更加引人注目，”她说道。
“The banning of the Joint List and Balad has almost become a tradition in Israeli politics. However … Ra’am have been part of past coalitions and that its leader, Mansour Abbas, was [a minister without portfolio] in the Bennett-Lapid government. Additionally, it also now has [Yoav Segalovitz] a former police official and a Jewish Israeli politician in its ranks, which makes the attempt more remarkable,” she said.
以色列问题专家沙迪·阿尔-沙拉法（Shadi al-Sharafa）对半岛电视台表示，这是一个“前所未有的危险先例”——因为这是首次要求取消所有阿拉伯政治党派的参选资格，而不仅仅是针对个别候选人或党派。
Israeli affairs expert Shadi al-Sharafa told Al Jazeera that this is “a dangerous precedent that did not exist before”, saying it is the first call to disqualify all Arab representation rather than a single candidate or list.
阿尔-沙拉法指出，在一个“支持内塔尼亚胡的阵营与反对他的阵营之间严重分裂”的社会中，阿拉伯选民的投票可能具有决定性作用；提案者不仅希望禁止阿布·谢哈德参选，还希望将他送上法庭。
Al-Sharafa said Arab votes could be decisive in a society “sharply divided between the camp that supports Netanyahu and the camp that opposes him”, and that the petitioners want Abu Shehadeh not only barred from the Knesset, but also put on trial.
这一禁止主要阿拉伯政党的举措使得以色列的阿拉伯公民在以色列议会中失去了重要的代表机会。
The move to ban major Arab parties leaves Palestinian citizens of Israel without major Knesset representation options.
半岛电视台拉马拉分社的负责人瓦利德·奥马里（Walid al-Omari）表示，如果法院维持这一禁令，大约20%的阿拉伯公民将在下届议会中失去代表权。
Walid al-Omari, Al Jazeera Arabic’s bureau chief in Ramallah, said that if the court upholds the disqualifications, approximately 20 percent of Arab citizens could be left without representation in the next Knesset.
以色列中央选举委员会主要是一个政治机构，其成员由即将卸任的以色列议会（Knesset）中各政党集团的代表组成。过去，以色列最高法院曾多次推翻中央选举委员会作出的取消阿拉伯政党及议员参选资格的决定。
Israel’s Central Elections Committee is primarily a political body composed of representatives of parliamentary blocs in the outgoing Knesset. In the past, the Supreme Court overturned decisions by the Central Elections Committee to disqualify Arab lists and lawmakers.