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Joint List chief: ‘We’re ready to pave the way to oust the Netanyahu government, and send them home’

Ariela Karmel is a political correspondent at The Times of Israel. She previously reported for Calcalist and Haaretz. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African History from Tel Aviv University and a BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.

Joint List chairman Yousef Jabareen says any party seeking to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will have to engage with his faction, as partial election results show potentially winning an unprecedented 19 Knesset seats.

“Anyone who wants to offer a substantive and genuine alternative to Netanyahu’s government of bloodshed will have to talk to us in order to pave the way for the change that the Israeli public longs for,” Jabareen tells Channel 13.

“It is either continued racism, continued exclusion and continued supremacy, or genuine Jewish-Arab partnership,” he asserts.

Speaking separately to Ynet, Jabareen vows to “leverage our political power to advance the values we believe in,” adding that his party is prepared to “pave the way for ousting the government of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and Smotrich, and send them home.”

With 76.8 percent of ballot boxes counted as of 10:58 a.m., partial results published by the Central Elections Committee give 54 seats to Netanyahu’s bloc and 47 to the bloc led by Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot. The two Arab-led parties are projected to win a combined 19 seats — a historic high — with 13 for the Joint List and six for Ra’am.

The results underscore the pivotal role Arab-majority parties could play in determining the next government, as Gadi Eisenkot’s Zionist anti-Netanyahu bloc, including Naftali Bennett’s B’Yachad, Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu and Yair Golan’s Democrats, cannot secure a Knesset majority without either their internal or external support.

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The Times of Israel reports Joint List chairman Yousef Jabareen's comments and partial results projecting a record 19 seats for the Joint List and Ra'am, and it attributes his words to him. In its own voice the outlet calls these parties only "Arab-led" and "Arab-majority" and never uses the word Palestinian, though survey evidence shows most Arab citizens of Israel include Palestinian in how they describe themselves. A reader of this record result is not told that the community behind it is largely Palestinian.

  1. Erases a people's national identity

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    “Arab-led parties”

    Why this matters
    In the outlet's own voice, "Arab-led parties" introduces the parties behind the record result with an ethnic label alone. This is the reader's first description of who is winning these seats.
    The impression it gives
    The reader comes away believing the result is a gain for an ethnic minority defined only as Arab, with no link to the Palestinian people.
    The context
    Most Arab citizens of Israel describe themselves in terms that include Palestinian. In Smooha's 2019 survey 61.9% chose such a description. The article never uses the word Palestinian anywhere, so this label stands in for their national identity rather than sitting alongside it.

    How we know

    • Our analysis“61.9% chose a description of themselves that included Palestinian”Palestinian citizens of Israel voted in record numbers
    • On the recordIn Sammy Smooha's April-June 2019 survey of 718 adult Arab citizens of Israel, including Druze and Bedouin, 61.9% chose a self-description containing Palestinian. This is historical survey evidence, not a 2026 percentage or proof of any individual's identity. Arab and Palestinian identities can coexist.newscord.org (opens in a new tab)
    • Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “Palestinian”.

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    Joint List chairman Yousef Jabareen says any party seeking to replace Netanyahu's government will have to engage with his faction, as partial results show the two parties of Palestinian citizens of Israel, the Joint List and Ra'am, potentially winning an unprecedented 19 Knesset seats.

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Our analysisPalestinian citizens of Israel voted in record numbers

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