Democrats Chairman Yair Golan said on X that "we must no longer accept Netanyahu's racist division between Jewish votes and Arab votes. The vote of an Israeli citizen who votes in Tira is worth exactly the same as the vote of an Israeli citizen who votes in Givat Shmuel." He added: "Anyone who tries to erase the votes of Arab citizens surrenders to Netanyahu and gives up on Israel. If Netanyahu insists on counting only a Zionist majority, he should first subtract from his own bloc the 16 Knesset members from the non-Zionist ultra-Orthodox parties."