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The text the scoring pipeline reads. Each document is tied to a party (or politician) with a published date, a source URL, and either Arabic, Hebrew, or English content. Open any one to read the verbatim source and see how it was scored.
IL 88 
LB 47 
EG 44 
PS 40 
IQ 28 
MA 20 
SY 20 
YE 19 
TN 17 
JO 15 
SA 15 
SD 15 
DZ 12 
LY 11 
AE 9 
BH 9 
QA 7 
MR 6 
OM 2 
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English IL 2026-06-09 Tier 2 Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism MK; Constitution Committee chair; architect of the 2023 judicial overhaul) — his Tablet op-ed "Why I Refuse to Stop Fighting for Judicial Reform": the majoritarian case — "A law endorsed by 90 elected representatives canceled by a court citing a document approved by 32… is not democracy."
Laws passed by overwhelming Knesset majorities—80 members, 90 members, representing the clear will of the Israeli public—were struck down by unelected judges based on their own broad interpretation of basic laws that were themselves passed by as few as 32 Knesset members. A law endorsed by 90 elected representatives…
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English SA 2018-10-17 Tier 1 Jamal Khashoggi — Washington Post columns 2017-2018 mosaic (anti-MBS critique, free expression, Yemen war, last column posthumous)
From Jamal Khashoggi (1958-2018, Saudi journalist, former editor-in-chief of Al-Watan and former advisor to Prince Turki bin Faisal; broke with the Saudi regime over MBS's repression of dissent and self-exiled to the US in 2017; murdered and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on or about 2 October 2018…
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Arabic SD 2018-09-18 Tier 1 Imam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi (leader of Sudan's Umma Party; Imam of the Ansar; two-time elected PM) — essay "National Awareness and the Incubators of Extremism" (his official website / World Forum for Wasatiyya): "dictatorial rule, whether civil or military, is a form of extremism"; the universal Caliphate is "outdated... not a condition for realizing the principles of Islam in governance."
الحكم الدكتاتوري مهما كان شكله مدنياً أو عسكرياً هو شكل من أشكال التطرف لأنه يخضع المجتمع لإرادة أحادية قاهرة الخلافة الجامعة والإمامة الجامعة تطلعات تجاوزها الزمن، وهي ليست شرطاً في تحقيق مبادئ الإسلام في الولاية
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English EG 2017-03-29 Tier 2 Alaa Abd El-Fattah (Egyptian writer, technologist and pro-democracy activist; long-imprisoned) — open letter to the RightsCon conference smuggled from Tora prison, 2017: "Fix your own democracy... the only possible answer," and a warning that human-rights advocacy must not become "a weapon in a cold war... [as] the Arab revolutions were lost when revolutionaries found themselves... recruits in proxy wars between regional powers."
Fix your own democracy: This has always been my answer to the question “how can we help?” I still believe it is the only possible answer. Not only is where you live, work, vote, pay tax, and organize the place where you have more influence, but a setback for human rights in a place where democracy has deep roots is…
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English BH 2016-09-04 Tier 2 Nabeel Rajab (Bahraini human-rights defender; president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights) — from his op-ed "Letter From a Bahraini Jail," The New York Times, 4 Sep 2016 (confirmed via Salon/TIME; NYT original paywalled): Bahrain jails those "daring to desire democracy," "no one has been properly held to account" for systematic abuses, and a challenge to the US over an ally that "punishes its people for thinking."
This is a country that has subjected its people to imprisonment, torture and even death for daring to desire democracy. No one has been properly held to account for systematic abuses that have affected thousands. Is this the kind of ally America wants? The kind that punishes its people for thinking, that prevents…
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English TN 2016-08-19 Tier 2 From Political Islam to Muslim Democracy — Rached Ghannouchi (Foreign Affairs, 2016)
Ennahda has moved beyond its origins as an Islamist party and has fully embraced a new identity as a party of Muslim democrats. It has ended all of its cultural and religious activities and now focuses only on politics. Tunisia's new constitution, ratified in 2014, enshrines democracy and protects political and…
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English PS 2011-05-16 Tier 2 Mahmoud Abbas, 'The Long Overdue Palestinian State' (NYT op-ed), 16 May 2011
Palestine's admission to the United Nations would pave the way for the internationalization of the conflict as a legal matter, not only a political one. It would also pave the way for us to pursue claims against Israel at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies and the International Court of Justice. Our quest…
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English PS 2002-01-16 Tier 1 Marwan Barghouti — 'Want Security? End the Occupation' (The Washington Post, 16 January 2002)
The only way for Israelis to have security is, quite simply, to end the 35-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. The lack of Israeli security is born of the lack of Palestinian freedom. We Palestinians have recognized Israel on 78 percent of historic Palestine. It is Israel that refuses to acknowledge…
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English IL Tier 2 Ehud Olmert (former Prime Minister of Israel, 2006–2009) — Haaretz opinion piece (per Ahram Online, 23 Jun 2026), among the harshest condemnations of the Gaza war by any senior Israeli figure: "It is undeniable that Israel has been committing acts that could be classified as war crimes," calling the war the work of "the criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu." [Second doc — distinct war-conduct axis.]
It is undeniable that Israel has been committing acts that could be classified as war crimes. Never since its establishment has the State of Israel waged such a war… The criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has set a precedent without equal in Israel's history in this area, too.
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Arabic EG Tier 1 Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi — essay "Islam and Democracy" (his official website, al-qaradawi.net): democracy's essence "is from the very core of Islam," and a Muslim embraces democracy "as a form of governance that embodies the political principles of Islam" (shura, accountable rulers, commanding right/forbidding wrong) — the foundational political-Islam reconciliation of Islam and democracy.
الذي يتأمل جوهر الديمقراطية يجد أنه من صميم الإسلام والمسلم الذي يدعو إلى الديمقراطية إنما يدعو إليها باعتبارها شكلاً للحكم، يجسد مبادئ الإسلام السياسية في اختيار الحاكم، وإقرار الشورى والنصيحة، والأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر، ومقاومة الجور، ورفض المعصية