Parity Pipeline

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Imagine you have three minutes — to exercise your right to speak and assert your right to exist… Since 1948, when Israel was established and the Knesset convened, Palestinian lawmakers have served alongside Jewish ones. Of the 120 Members of Knesset (MKs) who serve in each term only 10% have been Palestinian even though they constituted over 20% of Israel’s citizenry. Nevertheless, they've included poets, playwrights, philosophers, doctors, lawyers, and feminist activists. They’ve included communists, liberals, nationalists, and Islamists. Now imagine a collection of 3-minute speeches carefully curated from thousands delivered by these and other Arab lawmakers — like a relay race across the generations and against the political odds — what would we hear? A hungry appeal for a rightful place at the civic table, rather than the carrot, stick, and civil rights crumbs begrudgingly and only occasionally swept off of it.