The first female Knesset Member of an Arab party, Hanin Zouabi, is scheduled to begin her term next week when the 18th Knesset is sworn in. A member of one of the oldest Arab clans in Israel, she claims that Jews have no national right to be here – though Jews have been here many centuries longer than her ancestors.
Historian Dr. Rivka Shpak-Lissak of Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University has taken on the challenge of presenting and countering Zouabi’s positions on the question of Jews and Arabs in the Land of Israel. Her article appears on the Hebrew-language Omedia site.