MK Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List, said in response to the Nationality Law: "Separation, discrimination and racism are now enshrined in law. This is the law of Jewish superiority that excludes more than 20 percent of the population. This is a law that is entirely intended to defy, divide, disparage and continue the incitement of the Netanyahu government. Three years into its term, the government has lost all shame and dignity, it exposes its hypocrisy and proves that the word democracy is not worthy of even being written as far as it is concerned.”
Odeh added, "This is a law that goes against the Arab citizens, and even more so against democracy. It is easy to incite and persecute, but this is the time for all the democrats who live here together, Arabs and Jews, to unite against nationalism and racism and to put forward a different voice of equality and peace."