Arab MK decries ‘Jewish neo-Nazis’

Joint (Arab) List Knesset member Ahmad Tibi says the perpetrators of a firebombing attack that killed a Palestinian child in the West Bank were “Jewish neo-Nazis” and termed the attack “Kristallnacht.”

“The most terrible thing is that the prime minister wasn’t here to beat his breast over the Kristallnacht in Duma last week, which was perpetrated by Jewish neo-Nazis who live in settlements,” Tibi says in a speech during a stormy Knesset session dealing with the recent violence.

“They aren’t just bad apples; that’s a broken record,” he says, before moving on to lay blame for the attack at the doorstep of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet.

Tibi asserts that the perpetrators of the attack and others, according to suspicions Jewish extremists, had “political backing in the cabinet.”

He continues, “They’ve already burned Palestinian homes on 15 occasions and were not caught. This heinous murder won’t be the last, because the policy won’t change.”