Oren Hazan, suspended for a month by the Knesset Ethics Committee, releases a statement trying to turn the tables on the MK he apparently wronged.
Hazan says he is waiting for the Ethics Committee to come down on Karin Elharar, who he says cursed him in the plenum.
“As someone who exposed the double voting of MK [Issawi] Frij, which they have refused to check or discuss, and as someone who didn’t say a word, definitely nothing bad, about MK Elharar, I am waiting for the decision of the Ethics Committee on my complaint that Elharar cursed me in the plenum as ‘garbage, nothing, a dead person,'” he says, according to Ynet.
Last month, Hazan sarcastically asked Elharar, who is wheelchair bound, if she needed help from Frij, supposedly riffing on his claim that he double voted for her.
The comment drew scathing criticism from across the board in the Knesset.
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