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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
In video from Knesset, far-right MK compares lawmaker from Arab party to farm animal
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A far-right MK filmed himself at the Knesset plenum yesterday making racist comments about opposition lawmakers, including treating a lawmaker from a majority-Arab party like a farm animal while saying one should “talk to them in a language they understand.”
In his video, MK Almog Cohen of Otzma Yehudit is seen filming Hadash MK Ofer Cassif and making clicking and hissing noises at him to draw his attention.
“Shut your trap!” he calls out, before moving to the Arabic word “Uskut!” (“Be silent”) and then to animal calling sounds.
“When you talk to them in their language they understand you,” he says. “You need to talk to him like a sheep.”
“I’m not telling him to be quiet in Hebrew because he doesn’t speak Hebrew,” Cohen adds.
He also says of Ta’al’s Ahmad Tibi, a trained gynecologist, “That’s a doctor. I wouldn’t let him treat my dog.”
Cohen goes on to say Yesh Atid’s Merav Ben-Ari “has a voice like a floor cleaner’s.”
מופע הרפש של אלמוג כהן בכנסת: "לא הייתי נותן לטיבי לטפל בכלב שלי" | צפו@YakiAdamker pic.twitter.com/PxqwkQ161w
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