The Knesset Ethics Committee on Monday censures Arab (Joint) List MK Hanin Zoabi after she called IDF soldiers “murderers” in the Knesset plenum during a debate last month on the reconciliation agreement with Turkey.
Her comments were “extremist, inciting and not anchored in reality,” lawmakers said in the committee decision.
The committee also censures Likud MK Oren Hazan, who it accuses of “ceaselessly instigating” the kerfuffle in the plenum that followed Zoabi’s comments.
It also chastises, but does not officially censure, Yesh Atid MKs Mickey Levy and Aliza Lavie, Zionist Union MK Hilik Bar and Likud’s Nava Boker for their part in the altercation, including their rushing of the plenum to shout at Zoabi.
The censures have no practical ramifications, but can form the basis of a future decision by the Knesset to bar MKs from plenum debates or remove them from committees.
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