Palestinian Media Watch reports that an "Israeli affairs expert" claimed on Palestinian Authority TV that according to Israeli law, Arabs are prohibited from polygamy - but Jewish men are allowed to marry more than one wife.
PA TV “Israeli affairs expert” Fayez Abbas: “Another article in the [Israeli] paper Haaretz –says that in the Negev (i.e., in southern Israel) there are 6,680 cases of men who are married to more than one woman, and the [Israeli] police or attorney’s office claim that they did not succeed in enforcing the anti-polygamy law. In Israel it is forbidden to marry more than one woman for Arabs, for Muslims only. The Jew can marry more than one woman according to the law in Israel (sic.), but the Arab cannot. [The Arab] is sentenced to an active prison term and the payment of heavy fines.” [Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, July 4, 2021]This is of course absurd as Paragraph 176 of Israel's Penal Law, which prohibits polygamy, applies to everyone living in Israel, without exception.
This is probably the way that the lists of "racist laws" that supposedly apply only to Jews and not to Arabs get compiled.
