Her mother is from the West Bank town of Beit Sahour and her father from Mi'ilya, a local council in Northern Israel.

[5] In the spring of 2000, Arraf traveled to Jerusalem to work as program coordinator for Seeds of Peace, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that seeks to foster dialogue between Jewish and Palestinian youth.

[10][11] Since its creation, over 10,000 volunteers from dozens of countries have joined the ISM to monitor human rights abuses in occupied Palestine.

"[6] Arraf co-authored the book "Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement.

[15] Her resignation came shortly before a controversy over an allegedly antisemitic tweet posted by Greta Berlin on the official Twitter feed of the Free Gaza Movement.

Arraf called Berlin's tweet "offensive" but declined to answer a question put to her by Avi Mayer, a staffer at the Jewish Agency for Israel, about whether her departure was related to it.

[17][18] Arraf placed fourth in the five-way Democratic primary held in August 2022, losing the nomination to Carl Marlinga.

[22] A judge denied a request for injunctive relief to stop the MI Secretary of State from finalizing November 2024 ballots.