Meretz leaders slam Labor for joining government, call on activists to leave party

Following the decision of the Labor party central committee, Nitzan Horowitz, leader of the Meretz party which is further to the left than Labor, repeats his call for Labor activists to join his party, saying it “won’t turn its back on you and won’t betray your trust.”

Horowitz accused Labor party leader Amir Peretz and prominent Labor MK Itzik Shmuli of “humiliatingly and dishonorably burying the Labor party and crawling to a criminal defendant to receive jobs on the margins of the most bloated and corrupt government in the history of the state.”

Other Meretz members reacted similarly, with MK Tamar Zandberg saying Peretz and Shmuli had “sold out” Labor’s values and would be “remembered in history books as a pair of opportunists who robbed a party to receive a ministerial portfolio.”