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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Hadash-Ta’al chairman Odeh removed from Knesset plenum in fight over Kafr Qasim massacre
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Hadash-Ta’al chairman Ayman Odeh is removed from the Knesset plenum after interrupting Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf during a heated debate over a bill requiring Israel to take responsibility for and commemorate the victims of a 1956 massacre of Arab citizens of Israel in Kafr Qasim by Border Police officers.
The bill fails 9-38 in its preliminary reading.
Israel has not taken formal responsibility for the massacre and a bill proposing to have the state do so was overwhelmingly voted down in 2021. Arab Israeli parliamentarians regularly propose the bill near the event’s October 29 anniversary, but the Knesset has repeatedly them.
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