Ayman Odeh

'Era of cheap opportunism': MK Ayman Odeh compares Trump to Hitler, calls Netanyahu 'bootlicker'

Odeh’s post included a screenshot of a photo posted by Trump, which featured a map with a US flag superimposed on top of the US, Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela.

MK Ayman Odeh speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 12, 2026.
MK Ayman Odeh speaks at the annual Givat Haviva Conference for a Shared Society, Tuesday January 6, 2026.

'Remove Netanyahu': MK Odeh calls all Arab parties to unite before elections

RA’AM PARTY HEAD MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in November. Abbas’s political opponents have accused him in recent days of foiling efforts to form a joint list ahead of the elections, claiming that he doesn’t want to close the door to a future coalition.

Arab Israelis push to revive Joint List as divisions threaten their political voice

Hadash-Ta'al chairman MK Ayman Odeh at Pardes Hana.

Ayman Odeh's Pardes Hana event disrupted by right-wing protesters


Poll: 78% of Israeli Arabs support the Joint List entering coalition

65% of those asked expressed their complete support of a Blue & White headed coalition, and 20% said they neither support nor oppose the move.

An Israeli Arab casts her ballot at a polling station inside a church in the northern town of Reineh, March 17, 2015.

Coalition integration

Odeh’s olive branch was immediately broken in half by members of his own party, Likud and Blue and White, the party that would potentially lead the government he is prepared to join.

ARABS HAVE full representation in the Knesset, with MKs such as Ayman Odeh (Joint List).

Expert: Blue and White Could ‘Become History’ after Israeli Election

Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh’s apparent willingness to join a center-left government might not only hand Netanyahu the election, but destroy Benny Gantz’s political career, professor says.

BETTER TIMES for the Blue and White leadership?

Odeh willing to enter coalition with Gantz, Ashkenazi rules it out

"We will not invite a party that does not recognize Israel as a Jewish state," Ashkenazi told Army Radio.

Gabi Ashkenazi at the Maariv security conference, March 27th, 2019

Mainstream parties are missing historic chance to bridge gaps - analysis

Blue and White itself – the party to whom Odeh’s remarks were referring – seems to have missed this historic opportunity.

MK Ayman Odeh, the leader of Hadash-Ta'al Party, and Benny gantz, head of the Blue and White Party.

Ayman Odeh to Barak: Get off the public stage; you should be left in the past

"Nineteen years have passed since you were responsible for the killing of thirteen Arab citizens because they took to the streets," he said.

ARABS HAVE full representation in the Knesset, with MKs such as Ayman Odeh (Joint List).

Far Right, Arabs to clash in central election committee

“This is an attempt to disqualify the entire political representation of all Arabs in Israel,” Ayman Odeh said.

Election tickets for the 39 parties who ran in the 2019 Israeli elections with the envelope voters must insert their ballot into, April 9, 2019

Odeh mocks Netanyahu: Bibi to recognize Nakba if Arabs join coalition

ARABS HAVE full representation in the Knesset, with MKs such as Ayman Odeh (Joint List).

Arab parties satisfied with exit polls

“I would like to thank our heroic people,” Odeh told supporters shortly after the exit polls were published.

ARABS HAVE full representation in the Knesset, with MKs such as Ayman Odeh (Joint List).

Ayman Odeh: Benjamin Netanyahu belongs in jail

Labor leader Avi Gabbay said the time had come for Netanyahu to resign. He pleaded with him to not run his legal battle from the Prime Minister’s Office.

ARABS HAVE full representation in the Knesset, with MKs such as Ayman Odeh (Joint List).