Samah Salaime: The ‘Arab vote’ is an offer of trust. Why are Jews rejecting it?

In a podcast episode, Palestinian activist Samah Salaime discusses the Arab Israeli vote in the recent election, which yielded 19 mandates for the Joint List and Ra'am. She frames the vote as an offer of trust to Jewish Israelis and questions why it is being rejected.

In this episode of 'A Mandatory Listen,' host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaks with Palestinian activist and writer Samah Salaime about the recent Israeli election, in which the Arab vote translated into a combined 19 mandates for the Joint List and Ra'am. Salaime, a longtime contributor to +972 Magazine and a social worker by training, frames the Arab vote as an offer of trust to Jewish Israelis and questions why it is being rejected. The conversation explores the motivations of Arab Israeli voters and the significance of their turnout, while expressing frustration with the longstanding mutual distrust in Israeli society. The episode is produced by Yitzchak Ledek.