Temple Mount advocate MK complains over Arab lawmaker’s plan to ascend

Newly installed MK Yehudah Glick writes on Twitter that he has filed a complaint with the Knesset Ethics Committee over Arab MK Masud Ganaim’s announced plan to ascend the Temple Mount despite a directive for lawmakers to stay away from the holy site.

Glick is an outspoken advocate for Jewish prayer on the site in the framework of freedom of religion for all there, but has said he will refrain from visiting the esplanade after the prime minister banned lawmakers from entering the site as a way to cool tensions.

Ganaim, the head of the Ra’am party within the Joint List of Arab parties, was one of three MKs who sent a letter to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich saying they would go on the Temple Mount during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan.

Glick tweets that Masoud intends to “crudely trample and ignore the Ethics Committee’s regulations.”