Call for boycott working?

It looks like the widespread calls for Palestinian citizens of Israel to boycott the election might be working.

According to local news site Arab 48, the Palestinian parties estimate that the percentage of voting in predominently Arab areas didn't pass 15 percent until 2pm today. At 12pm it was only 8 percent, a third compared to the rest of the country.

Awad Abdelfattah, political analyst and former Balad party official, told MEE that the Nation State Law "has finally put an end to the illusion that something can be changed through the Knesset".

"My current conviction is our representation in the Knesset is mere cover to a brutal aparthied colonialist regime. It’s time to rip off of the the mask and expose Israel as it is in reality," he said.