Rasmea Yousef Odeh is the associate director of the Arab American Action Network, leader of that group’s Arab Women’s Committee, and a former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.