FUTURE OF JEWISH
Arab Israelis just ruined a favorite lie about Israel
Joshua Hoffman
October 28, 2026

Somewhere in London, New York, Paris, or Melbourne, a wannabe “activist” is explaining to a room full of people that Israel is an “apartheid state.” Meanwhile, in Israel, Arab voters may have just become the most important people in the country’s political future. You really couldn’t make this stuff up. As the results emerge from Israel’s national election on Tuesday, the country’s political future looked remarkably uncertain. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc was projected to win 53 seats in the 120-member Knesset (Israeli parliament), while the Jewish-led opposition bloc was projected to win 48. Neither side is close to the 61 seats necessary to form a majority government. And then there were the Arab parties. Israel’s two Arab-led electoral lists — the United Arab List (commonly known by its Hebrew abbreviation Ra’am) and the Joint List — are projected to win a combined 19 seats. If that is confirmed, it would be the largest number of Knesset seats ever won collectively by Arab-led parties in the State of Israel’s history. READ MORE