Yousef Jabareen
Role at the time: Chairman of the Joint List
Condemned
Statement summary
Jabareen says Smotrich and Netanyahu fear the Joint List's growing strength and accuses them of trying to frighten Arab voters with lies and racist campaigns.
“Smotrich and Netanyahu understand that they are on their way home and are afraid of the rising strength of the Joint List, which will be a decisive force in the election and will bring them down from power. That is why they are trying to intimidate the Arab public through lies and racist campaigns. (Translated from Hebrew. Original: סמוטריץ׳ ונתניהו מבינים שהם בדרך הביתה ומפחדים מכוחה העולה של הרשימה המשותפת, שתהיה כוח מכריע בבחירות ותפיל אותם מהשלטון. לכן הם מנסים להלך אימים על הציבור הערבי באמצעות שקרים וקמפיינים גזעניים.)”
Open source (opens in a new tab)2,000 observers from the right will be stationed at Arab polling stations (Hebrew)Full article
Hebrew news report that sets out the Likud and Religious Zionism plan in the parties' own terms, including the claim of a long series of fraud incidents in previous elections, the fraud-risk mapping and the training of activists, many of them yeshiva students. It carries Yousef Jabareen's full response in Hebrew.
Why we used this label
The case looks at the plan to send about 2,000 party activists to polling stations in Arab communities. Jabareen calls it an attempt to intimidate Arab voters through lies and racism, so we used condemns.