3-4-2020 The Joint List’s triumph over hate - Samah Salaime +972
The Joint List may not save this place, but it showed that it is the only real alternative to the racism and incitement of the Israeli right…Arab society is undergoing a process of reconciliation between its Palestinian identity and its Israeli citizenship… But saving and strengthening Palestinian society — and what is left of the Jewish left — is an important and far more feasible goal than bringing down the rule of the right…We cannot ignore the fact that 90 percent of Israel's Palestinian population supported the Joint List. A significant number of Palestinian citizens who previously voted for Jewish-Zionist parties voted for the List this time around. The List's support in Druze villages — which have historically voted for Zionist parties — doubled at the expense of Likud and Yisrael Beitenu. Arab mayors also expressed their total support, while those who choose to boycott Israeli elections were relatively muted this time around…The support of our Jewish partners has grown this time, whether due to the breakdown of the Zionist left, the strengthening of the Joint List itself, or the incitement of the right. I hope that the surge in the Jewish vote for the List is the first step toward forming a strong, radical, left-wing, non-Zionist Arab-Jewish party…
Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member
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