I'd be pretty shocked if she got in.

according to this interview with someone from the fascist movement Im Tirtzu:-

http://ajewishisrael.com/an-interview-with-anett-haskia-proud-israeli-arab-muslim/

Seems a bit like an Arab Gilad Atzmon, which might explain why our friend likes her so much.

The article also implied that she had been spurned by non-fascist parties in Israel, so presumably she approached them but they weren't interested in taking her.

I'm not quite sure that you're following. She needs to run in the Jewish home primaries and will need some level of support to do well enough there. She will probably be able to get somewhere in the middle of the pack, although probably not high enough. Unlike most people seeking to get on the list she has some level of celebrity; on the other hand most of their voters hate Arabs.

Also, whether or not she has a shot at election depends somewhat on whether Bennett will succeed in having all candidates run in the primaries, currently he is in a stoush as to whether the Tekumah faction will be guaranteed candidates high on the list.

Once she is on the list, "she" is irrelevant. Voters vote for the party list as a whole, not individual candidates. If Jewish Home gets sufficient votes she gets in, if not, then not.

I just wonder if they would be willing to put her on their list.

my understanding is that the list that is filed before the elections can contain up to 125 candidates, in the extremely unlikely event that everyone casts their vote for that one party, plus five candidates in reserve in the event of casual vacancies.

Often the people down the list have very low levels of support, but are also of course very unlikely to be elected. So she can probably get on somewhere, just not anywhere where she has a chance of being elected.

" haven't decided yet. "

Founder of 'fascist' rightist group eyes spot on Habayit Hayehudi list

Judge ruled in 2013 that the activist organization founded by Ronen SHoval bore similarities to fascism.

By Chaim Levinson

Ronen Shoval, former chairman of the right-wing activist group Im Tirzu, intends competing for a place on the Habayit Hayehudi list in the forthcoming elections, Haaretz has learned.

Im Tirzu, the organization which he founded and led, was described by an Israeli judge as having similarities to fascism in 2013.

Shoval, 33, recently completed a term as international organizer for Habayit Hayehudi.

Among his controversial activities with Im Tirzu was the publication of a booklet and a public relations campaign called Nakba-Harta (Nakba Rubbish,) which ostensibly exposed Palestinian propaganda about Israel's War of Independence. The campaign was widely condemned as being racist.

In 2013, Im Tirzu launched a libel suit against the people behind a Facebook page that described Im Tirzu as a fascist movement. The court dismissed the suit, ruling that "there is a basis for seeing commonalities between the positions of the movement and certain foundational principles of fascism."

Giving testimony during the trial, Shoval acknowledged that he had hired private investigators to gather material on human rights organizations which, according to him, were "infected with covert anti-Zionism."

He also acknowledged that private investigators had been sent to the offices of Michael Sfard, the attorney representing the defendants in the case.

Another of Shoval's projects was an attempt to bring about the closure of the Politics and Government department at Ben-Gurion University, on the grounds that most of the department's lecturers were leftists. In a letter to the university, Shoval warned that "donations to the university will be released only after it has proved that the bias in the faculty and syllabuses of the department has been corrected."

University President Rivka Carmi ignored Shoval's letter saying "we know such things from dark regimes."

Shoval, a father of three who lives in the West Bank settlement Efrat, told Haaretz: "There's a lot pf pressure to run [for the Knesset.] They want to increase the possibilities of action by the democratic Zionist camp against the left. I haven't decided yet."

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/.premium-1.630601

When if/they do ....who do you think will run higher on the list ???

'Israeli Arabs challenging the dominance of anti-Zionist figures in their communities' - OK but then why not join Labor, Meretz or even Likud? For an Arab to try to join Jewish Home is like for a British Asian to want to join the BNP.

Based only on what she says in this article, it would make no sense for her to join either of those parties.

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There are a lot of possible choices in between. So a move away from anti-Zionist leaders does not require joining the Israeli equivalent of the BNP.

The people in question seem nuts, and not a nice sort of nuts. As Shaayecanaan said, Arab counterparts of Gilad Atzmon. And how many of them really exist? About as many as minority group members who want to join the BNP, I'd say (yes there are some).

The policies she articulated are exactly in line with that political party.

I would say she is more akin to Philip Weiss than Gilad Atzmon.

the author of the article.

I was talking about too many people in one sentence and have edited my post to make it clearer (I hope).

I doubt that there would be many Arabs interested in such a party. But very occasionally minority group members have attempted to join the BNP or EDL; and there have been African American tea party members; so all things are possible.

I find the whole thing to be pretty bizarre, personally.