{"id":84330,"date":"2021-05-22T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84330"},"modified":"2021-05-22T13:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T18:15:38","slug":"84330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84330","title":{"rendered":"Voter Suppression in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>The following letter to the editor was submitted to <\/em>The Washington Post <em>on May 5. The editors elected not to\u00c2\u00a0 publish it.\u00c2\u00a0 We are pleased to print it here<\/em>]:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> editorial \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An election fiasco leaves the Palestinian government weaker than ever\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (5\/3\/21) tries to blame the Palestinian leadership for the delay in the elections saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mr. Abbas indefinitely <a href=\"https:\/\/capconcorp.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=a1c19ae04449f07904b1c8b38&amp;id=c17184e910&amp;e=36a114e45a\">postponed the elections\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>on Thursday, citing as a pretext Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to confirm that it would allow a few thousand Palestinians to vote in East Jerusalem.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 The number of Arab Jerusalem voters Israel insists of disenfranchising is actually hundreds of, not \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a few,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d thousands. I am certain that were some American politicians to refuse to allow hundreds of (or even \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a few\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) thousands of black voters from an election the <em>Post<\/em> would understand it was the cause of, rather than a pretext for, the angry reaction it would surely provoke.<\/p>\n<p>Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad<br \/>\nMinaret of Freedom Institute<br \/>\nwww.minaret.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The following letter to the editor was submitted to The Washington Post on May 5. The editors elected not to\u00c2\u00a0 publish it.\u00c2\u00a0 We are pleased to print it here]: The Washington Post editorial \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An election fiasco leaves the Palestinian government weaker than ever\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (5\/3\/21) tries to blame the Palestinian leadership for the delay in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84333,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84330\/revisions\/84333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}