A Labor Party rally in Israel took an unexpected turn when the party’s sole Ethiopian legislator grabbed the microphone and accused the party of racism. Adisu Massala claimed that ballot tampering from the party’s primary earlier in the week had cost him the place on Labor’s roster of Knesset candidates that had been reserved for an immigrant representative. Massala accused Labor officials of selling him out and giving the slot to a representative of the Russian immigrant community, a larger voting bloc than the Ethiopian community.
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