Hadash-Ta’al slams ‘anti-democratic’ law to strip terrorists of citizenship

By Carrie Keller-Lynn 15 February 2023, 6:23 pm

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Carrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel

Hadash-Ta'al MKs Ayman Odeh (l) and Ahmad Tibi during a vote in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The majority-Arab Hadash-Ta’al party slams a just-passed law to strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship or residency if they were paid by the Palestinian Authority.

The payment clause is widely understood to have tailored the bill to apply only to Palestinian terrorists, who routinely receive stipends from the PA or related organizations, and to exclude Jewish terrorists from scrutiny.

Hadash-Ta’al says that the law is “anti-democratic” because it leads to a “deepening of the occupation, one law for the Jews, and another law for the Palestinians.”

“There is no democracy with occupation, it is the opposite,” the party says.