The Knesset Ethics Committee slaps a one week ban on Joint (Arab) List chairman Ayman Odeh over a confrontation he had with police officers in May.
The punishment comes following a complaint to the committee by Likud MK’s Oren Hazan and Nava Boker about Odeh’s conduct at the Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa while he was visiting Arab Israeli activist Jafar Farah who was being treated for a broken knee he sustained after his arrest at a demonstration against Israel’s response to protests along the Gaza border.
Odeh was caught on camera challenging a police officer at the hospital who blocked his way, calling him a “zero,” and asking him “who do you think you are?”
The committee found that “the language used by MK Odeh was lowly and foul and broke the ethics rules placed on parliament members.”
Boker said at the time that she had asked the Knesset Ethics Committee to discipline Odeh over the confrontation.
“We cannot remain silent when Knesset members humiliate [police], harm them and turn them into a punching bag,” she tweeted.
— Raoul Wootliff
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