Minister Tzahi Hanegbi has reportedly asked the director of his Likud party to look into forbidding ultra-nationalist rapper Yoav Eliasi from joining the party.
The move comes hours after Hanegbi said he would not allow Eliasi, known better as The Shadow, to join Likud “since his views do not match up with the party’s.”
Israeli rap singer Yoav Eliasi takes part at a right wing demonstration in support of Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 9, 2014. (Flash90)
Eliasi earlier said Hanegbi’s graft conviction and time with the Kadima party disqualified him from passing judgement, saying the minister was afraid of him.
“This is a fascist attempt to remove me,” Eliasi told Channel 2.
Eliasi’s announcement late last week that he would join the party invited scorn by more moderate elements within the right-wing Likud.
The outspoken Eliasi has rejected the criticism, calling those against him leftists and vowing to return the party to “the true right.”
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