Leaders of the Arab-Jewish left-wing movement Standing Together, Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green, launched a new Arab-Jewish political party, Makom Lekulanu (“A Place for Us All”), on Tuesday ahead of the upcoming national election, calling it “a new political home for Jews and Arabs who work toward peace, equality, social justice, and the fight against violence and crime.”

The new party will be led by the Standing Together national co-directors, who are taking a leave of absence from the movement to focus on the party. Makom Lekulanu calls Daood the first Palestinian woman to lead a national party in Israel.

Speaking at the party’s launch in Nazareth, she called this “the last moment to save our society.”

“We are being abandoned, murdered, our future is being burned,” Daood said, delivering her remarks in a mix of Arabic and Hebrew, arguing that efforts to replace the government must be accompanied by a positive vision.

Referring to the prime, national security and finance ministers, she added, “Not only will we be part of the struggle to replace Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and Smotrich, but we will also lead the struggle for Israeli-Palestinian peace, national and civil equality, and social justice.”

Green told The Times of Israel that the party aims to offer a model of Jewish-Arab partnership largely absent from Israeli politics.

“It’s time to have a truly equal Jewish-Arab partnership,” he said. “I don’t think this means an Arab representative in a Jewish party or a Jewish representative in an Arab party. Jewish-Arab partnership can start in the same political party.”

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