MK ejected from Knesset for calling minister ‘terrorist’

Shouting, “You are a terrorist,” Joint (Arab) List MK Taleb Abu Arar is removed from the Knesset plenary for disturbing a speech of Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan.

In response, Erdan shouts back from the podium: “And you are a criminal polygamist.” Abu Arar has two wives and 10 children.

The name-calling took place as Erdan was responding to a proposal to form a parliamentary inquiry committee over the events that took place in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran last week in which a police officer was killed in an alleged vehicular assault.

Erdan said that the incident was a terrorist attack just hours after it took place, despite what the Joint List calls “inconclusive evidence.” An aerial video of the event showed police shooting before the car accelerated into officers.

Erdan defended the assessment saying that both the film and eyewitness accounts confirmed it was a terror attack.

— Raoul Wootliff