(13.April 2015) The real Arab Spring is blooming in Israel. Arab activists are using the Jewish state’s robust democracy and independent institutions to push their agenda of radical, but peaceful, political change.

A rainbow coalition of nationalists, Islamists, feminists, socialists and supporters of Jewish-Arab co-operation stood in last month’s election. The Joint List won 13 seats in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, making it the third largest party.