I have no reason to be optimistic about the future of Palestinians in Israel.

From the systemic disenfranchisement of Palestinian citizens inside the country to the constant displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, from the daily oppression of those living behind its apartheid wall to the routine humiliation of those living under its apartheid laws — not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in a stateless limbo in East Jerusalem — Israel continues to brazenly deny us our basic rights.

Today, as millions of Israelis go to the polls, I will be joining thousands of other Arab Palestinian citizens in boycotting the contest — refusing to participate in our own marginalization and declining to serve as a pawn for a state that exists for and of “the Jewish people only.”