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Zoabi's a Balad party member (National Democratic Alliance). She's been a MK since February 2009. She's Israel's first Palestinian one from an Arab party.
From 1999 - 2003, Arab Israeli Hussniya Jabara served as a Meretz MK. From 2006 - 2009, Nadia Hilou did so for Labor.
Zoabi joined Balad in 2001. In 2000, she co-founded I'lam: Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel . She served as general director. In 2009, she resigned. She did so to run for Knesset membership.
I'Iam "seeks to strengthen the media cadre, raise awareness and educate Palestinian society in Israel in media practices.""It also seeks to democratize media policies and practices within the local Arab and Hebrew language medias, towards the realization of media rights in Palestinian society."
It's "deeply committed to the democratization of media policies, media practices, and the media landscape in Israel."
Zoabi rejects the notion of Israel as a Jewish state. She calls accepting it "inherently racist."
She deplores requiring Arab Israelis to pledge loyalty to "the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state." Mandating it has no legitimacy.
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