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.