Stav Shaffir, one of the leaders of the social justice protest, announced over the weekend that she will compete for a place on the Labor Party list for the upcoming Knesset election, making her the first social protest leader to enter electoral politics.
- By zionist forever
- 14 Oct 2012
- 02:09PM
Can't be an MK or even standing for politics and claim to be independent. The whole lot of them now are interested in themselves not people. Stav Shaffir has got a taste of the fame and wants to become a politician and Daphne Leef is a full time paid protestor ( her official full job is to protest ) so it hardly makes here independent anymore if protesting is her job. By courting Stav Shaffir shows Labor are trying to get anybody who is famous put them on their ticket. First they went after Noam Shalit and got him now they are going after the protestors ... if you don't think you can win an election on your own merits then get a few famous faces to joint the party. Labor are trying the same tactic as Yair Lapid, no real policy other than popularism so use famous faces instead.
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