Members of Balad, one of the parties comprising the Joint List, say they did not agree to a statement published by Joint List leader Ayman Odeh condemning Sunday night’s terror attack in Beersheba.
Odeh is a member of Hadash, another of the parties in the Joint List. He published the statement after a faction meeting on Monday.
The Joint List publishes statements only after all parties in the faction agree on their content, but Balad MKs told the Walla news website that they have been boycotting Joint List faction meetings for the past two weeks.
Officials in Balad say the faction took advantage of their absence to “publish a press statement the content of which was not agreed on by Balad members.”
In response, officials in Joint List say the decision to publish the statement, just like other faction decisions, was made during the faction meeting.
Arab MK Hanin Zoabi at a hearing on her case at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 9, 2014 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
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