Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a rich record of outrageous pronouncements against Israel’s Arab citizens. On Election Day 2015, for example, he warned, "Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves,” boosting his support among those horrified at the idea that Arab citizens vote. These days, Netanyahu appears to have outdone himself in anti-Arab rhetoric twice in the past week — again in the midst of an election campaign, just like in 2015.
On March 9, television presenter and model Rotem Sela, angered by a minister who warned that the government’s political rivals would join forces with the Arab parties, wrote a post demanding to know when “will someone in this government convey to the public that Israel is a state of all its citizens.” Netanyahu responded: “Israel is not a state of all its citizens. According to the nation-state law we passed, Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people — and not anyone else.”