Kalman Liebskind, the right wing journalist who interviewed Frej, noted that the Joint [Arab] List had refused to sign a vote-sharing agreement with Meretz because Meretz is a Zionist party.

“They were wrong,” Frej answers, “we are not Zionists but Israelis. Meretz is an Israeli party; each person can define themselves as they want. All these layers of definition are because you want to complicate matters.”