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MPA 24 @Kennedy_School | Research Fellow at the Centre for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy (@molad_institute) | Tweet in English, think in Hebrew
May 25, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
I spoke to @BBCLondonNews about what happened to me two days ago when I was #DeniedMyVote at the EU elections.

This was the only opportunity I have as an EU national living in the UK to have my say on an issue that has a dramatic effect on my life.> In the past three years, Nigel Farage and his ilk have vilified EU nationals, migrants, asylum seekers, and anyone they consider foreign. The recent EU election was our first and only opportunity to have our voice heard, but many of us were denied this basic democratic right.>