Ta'al תע״ל • الحركة العربية للتغيير | |
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| Hebrew name | תנועה ערבית להתחדשות |
| Arabic name | الحركة العربية للتغيير |
| Leader | Ahmad Tibi |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Big tent[16] |
| National affiliation | Balad (1999) United Arab List (2006–2013) Joint List (2015–2019; 2019–2021; 2021–2022) |
| Knesset | 1 / 120 |
| Most MKs | 3 (2020) |
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| Website | |
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TheArab Movement for Renewal, commonly known by itsHebrew abbreviationTa'al,[a] is ananti-ZionistArab nationalistpolitical party inIsrael, led byAhmad Tibi.
Ta'al was founded by Tibi in the run-up to the1996 elections where it ran under its original name,Arab Union, but received only 2,087 votes (0.1%). Since then, the party has only run on joint lists with other parties. For the1999 elections it ran as part of theBalad list. Tibi won a seat, and broke away from Balad on 21 December that year. In the2003 elections the party ran on a joint list withHadash, with Tibi retaining his seat.[17]
On 7 February 2006 Tibi left the alliance with Hadash. For the2006 elections the party ran on a joint list with theUnited Arab List, running as Ra'am–Ta'al (Ra'am is the Hebrew acronym for the UAL).On 12 January 2009, the Ra'am–Ta'al list was disqualified from the2009 elections by theCentral Elections Committee. Twenty-one committee members voted in favor of its disqualification, with eight members voting against and two members abstaining. Tibi said the decision was related toOperation Cast Lead, claiming "this is a racist country. We are accustomed to these types of struggles and we will win" and that "this decision strives for a Knesset without Arabs that will only lead to the increased solidarity between the Arab public and its leadership". He said he would appeal to theIsraeli High Court of Justice.[18] On 21 January the High Court of Justice overturned the Committee's decision unanimously. Tibi welcomed the decision and said: "We have beaten fascism. This fight is over but the battle is not. Racism has become a trend in Israel ... the court's decision has righted a wrong byKadima andLabor".[19] The list won four seats, with Tibi retaining his place in the Knesset.
The party was part of theJoint List in the2015 election, before it withdrew in January 2019,[20] though it decided to rejoin the alliance for theSeptember 2019 election[21] and ran as part of it in the2020 election as well.[22] It left the alliance again on 28 January 2021,[23] until it rejoined once again on 3 February.[24]
Ta'al supports an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 green lines and atwo-state solution, with a Palestinian state established alongside Israel in theWest Bank andGaza Strip.
Ta'al has been often described assecular.[25][26][27] Despite this the party was an ally of theIslamistUnited Arab List (Ra'am) and ran on their list between 2006 and 2015. Additionally their leader Tibi has been heavily criticized forhomophobic comments in 2019.[28] Tibi is aMuslim himself.[29]
The party is described as(Arab) nationalist[26][27] but more moderate compared toBalad.[30]
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Status |
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| 1996 | Ahmad Tibi | 2,087 | 0.07 (#19) | 0 / 120 |  | Extraparliamentary |
| 1999 | Part ofBalad | 1 / 120 |  1 | Opposition | ||
| 2003 | WithHadash[b] | 1 / 120 | | Opposition | ||
| 2006 | WithRa'am | 1 / 120 | | Opposition | ||
| 2009 | 1 / 120 | | Opposition | |||
| 2013 | 1 / 120 | | Opposition | |||
| 2015 | Part of theJoint List | 1 / 120 | | Opposition | ||
| Apr 2019 | WithHadash[b] | 2 / 120 | 1 | Snap election | ||
| Sep 2019 | Part of theJoint List | 2 / 120 | | Snap election | ||
| 2020 | 3 / 120 | 1 | Opposition | |||
| 2021 | 2 / 120 |  1 | Opposition | |||
| 2022 | WithHadash[b] | 1 / 120 | 1 | Opposition | ||
Arab nationalist party Ta'al
Ahmad Tibi's Arab nationalist Ta'al party
Ta'al, a secular Arab nationalist party
moderate Arab nationalism (Ta'al)
Ta'al's philosophy centers around the desire to see Israel's Arabs recognized as a national minority with equal civil rights
Ta'al with secularist and anti-Zionist tendencies
The four Arab parties vary in character with Tibi's and its rival Balad being secular anti-Zionists
Ta'al is more right-wing economically. Both are anti-Zionist and support the creation of a Palestinian state with eastern Jerusalem as its capital.
Ahmad Tibi, a viciously anti-Zionist member of Israel's parliament
Tibi, an Arab member of the Israeli Parliament and a known anti-Zionist
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