**An Israeli Jew has been elected to the governing body of the Fatah party of Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.**Uri Davis, 66, an academic who is married to a Palestinian, is an outspoken critic of what he calls Israel’s “apartheid policies”.
As the only Israeli Jewish member of the Revolutionary Council he says he wants to represent non-Arab people who support the Palestinian cause.
He called for an international campaign to boycott Israel to be toughened up.
“I hope… that my brothers and sisters in the congress would trust me with that candidacy but beyond that it is their collective discretion,” Mr Davis said before the vote.
He was one of around 700 Fatah members competing for 89 open seats in the body, which oversees the group’s day-to-day decision making.
Others elected to Fatah’s revolutionary council included Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of the senior Fatah figure, Marwan Barghouti, who was jailed by Israel five years ago for the murder of five people.
The old guard of Fatah retained only four of the 18 elected seats. The rest went to younger men.