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.

|ByGOLDIE KATZ
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

“I call on all Arab parties: let us unite, all of us. Let us bring 17 mandates,” MK Ayman Odeh said.

|ByKESHET NEEV
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

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: “There is anger in the Arab street because the Arab politicians haven’t managed to work together," political analyst Mohammed Darawshe tells the Post.

|ByDANA BEN-SHIMON
Hadash-Ta'al chairman MK Ayman Odeh at Pardes Hana.

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

Event organizers issued a statement where they claimed that the disruption “illustrates the violent culture that has become a symbol of the fascist right in recent times.”

|ByBATYA GILADI, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel elections: Joint List to run again, will not sit in 'racist occupation government'

Chairman MK Aymen Odeh did not close the door on the possibility of endorsing Yair Lapid or Benny Gantz to form the next government.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022ByTAL SPUNGIN
Joint List party chairman Ayman Odeh visits the home of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin, in the east Jerusalem Neighborhood of Beit Hanina, May 11, 2022

If elected, I will deport anyone who acts against the State of Israel - Ben-Gvir

Jewish violence against Arabs is also not terrorism, Otzma Yehudit head Itamar Ben-Gvir said, adding that there is precedence for this.

AUGUST 16, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
MK Itamar Ben Gvir seen in the East Jerusalem neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah, on January 20, 2022.

Israel Election: We must restore hope to Israel's Arab citizens - opinion

Low voter turnout, combined with declarations that the Arab public has no place among Israel’s decision-makers, is liable to create a fertile political climate for populist and racist legislation.

JULY 4, 2022ByMUHAMMED KHALAILY
JOINT LIST leader MK Ayman Odeh stands and shouts his objections during a debate in the Knesset, as Ra’am leader MK Mansour Abbas sits to the left.

Prosecution watchdog: Justified complaints at 20%

Ayman Odeh's case has been neglected.

JUNE 20, 2022ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
THE SUPREME Court, Jerusalem: Critiques from Right and Left.

Odeh should retract his outrageous comments - editorial

MK Ayman Odeh issued comments telling Arabs in security forces to lay down their weapons and Jews to refuse to serve in the West Bank.

APRIL 12, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Joint list leader MK Ayman Odeh speeks during a discussion on the "Kafr Kassem massacre," during a plenum session in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2021.

Grapevine April 13, 2022: Not part of the blame game

Movers and shakers of Israeli society.

APRIL 12, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG with Druze spiritual leader Mowafaq Tarif.

House Committee to discuss removal of Ayman Odeh from Knesset

Despite probes, legal experts believe the Joint List head cannot be charged for incitement for his call for Arab-Israeli officers to disobey orders.

APRIL 12, 2022ByTAL SPUNGIN
Hadash party leader Ayman Odeh at the Knesset, 2019.

Ayman Odeh is toxic against Israeli-Arab unity - analysis

Religious Zionist MK Itamar Ben-Gvir has been rightly accused since the onset of this most recent wave of violence of “dancing on the blood”  of the victims. Ayman Odeh is doing the same thing.

APRIL 11, 2022ByHERB KEINON
Joint list leader MK Ayman Odeh speeks during a discussion on the "Kafr Kassem massacre," during a plenum session in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2021.

Police probing MK Odeh's call for Arab police officers to disobey orders

The chairman of the Joint List published a video in which he told all new Arab-Israeli police recruits to lay down their arms.

APRIL 11, 2022ByMAARIV ONLINE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
AYMAN ODEH, leader of the Joint List – he holds a key to the castle, one that only Benny Gantz could use

Arab MK caught photographing documents in Knesset plenum

Odeh was caught on camera photographing something lying on the table of the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. He was later revealed to have photographed a book.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021ByMAARIV ONLINE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Joint List leader Ayman Odeh addresses the Knesset: Odeh has suggested, for the first time, that Israeli Arabs would be willing to join a government coalition