Minister accuses top Arab lawmaker of supporting terror

30 December 2018, 7:38 pm

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Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is calling fellow lawmaker Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint List of Arab-led parties, a “criminal who supports terror,” in an official response to a Knesset ethics panel.

Erdan was responding to a complaint filed against him by Odeh to the committee, according to Hebrew-language reports.

Last week, the two traded barbs in the Knesset, with Odeh calling Erdan a “failed” minister and Erdan saying that the “day you are put back in jail is the day this will be a normal country.”

Erdan, whose ministry controls the police, has repeatedly accused Odeh of supporting terror and in May asked the attorney general to open a probe into his alleged support for terror.