Bad-boy Likud MK banned from Knesset for 6 months

Bad-boy Likud lawmaker is banned from entering the Knesset for six months for a series in incidents in which he insulted fellow lawmakers.

The Knesset Ethics committee is giving him the maximum possible punishment for offenses including telling one female MK she was too ugly to work to work as a prostitute.

He also called Arab Israeli lawmakers “terrorists.”

The committee, which is made up of two coalition and two opposition MKs tasked with overseeing the behavior and public activities of lawmakers, announces that the decision was made “after receiving numerous complaints of goading, humiliating and offensive comments containing derogatory language.”

They says his actions are “thuggish, brash, degrading and intimidating… and often descended into racist and base comments.”

— Raoul Wootliff