Right-wing activists picket house meeting with Arab lawmaker, attack his car

Right-wing activists attempted to storm a house meeting in Pardes Hanna on Tuesday night that hosted MK Ayman Odeh, chair of the mostly Arab party alliance Hadash-Ta’al.

The protesters gathered outside the home behind a police cordon, chanting, “Terrorist! Terrorist!” and singing “May your village burn.”

Footage showed them blaring a recording of the anti-Arab song through speakers as a police vehicle idled nearby.

Odeh, who leads the Arab-majority communist party Hadash, was hosted by a family for a meeting billed as a chance to build “partnership and peace” after “two years characterized mainly by pain and hostility.”

The event went ahead despite the disturbances outside, but afterward the protesters were filmed attacking Odeh’s vehicle as he left, chasing it and slamming the windows with their fists. They were also reported to have thrown stones at the Arab lawmaker’s car.

Police were present throughout the event, but did not make any arrests. A police source told Channel 12 that officers acted to prevent disturbances and to protect those attending the meeting.

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But the flyer advertising the event was spread online by right-wing activists who called for likeminded members of the public to show up and protest outside the hosts’ home.

Gidi Brann, whose relatives hosted the event, said on X that his parents had to sneak “through the bushes” in the backyard to return to their home next door for fear of being harmed if they left through the front entrance.

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הפעם בפרדס חנה.
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In a video statement following the event, Odeh noted that this was not the first time his events had been picketed by far-right activists — in July, demonstrators assaulted the lawmaker and attacked his car as he traveled to an anti-war protest in Ness Ziona.

“Every place I go to talk to the Jewish public, a group of fascists arrives to disrupt and to try to cancel the event,” Odeh said. “The thing they are most afraid of is Arabs and Jews existing together. The thing they are most afraid of is legitimizing the leadership of the Arab population, because the fascists know that when we are legitimized — they will not remain in power.”

“What is happening to me is a preview of the next elections,” he warned. “They will do everything to stay in power, and we must do everything to ensure they do not remain in power. This can only happen through joint Jewish-Arab cooperation.”

“In the face of fascism, we do not surrender. We defeat fascism,” Odeh declared in a separate statement issued on X, reiterating that “the only way to do this is through a courageous Jewish-Arab partnership.”

“We will continue to stand strong, Jews and Arabs together,” he vowed. “Even if they try to silence us and attack us, we will grow, we will become stronger, and we will break through.”

The incident was condemned by MK Gilad Kariv, a member of the left-wing Democrats party, who warned that the violence was a “direct result of the Kahane-inspired incitement against Arab Knesset members by government ministers and coalition members.”

In July, a motion to expel Odeh from the Knesset failed to pass, receiving only 73 of the requisite 90 votes. Odeh had said he was “happy for the release of hostages and prisoners,” referring to a deal with Hamas that saw some of those abducted by terrorists on October 7, 2023, freed from Gaza in exchange for Palestinian inmates held in Israeli prisons, many of whom were convicted on terror charges.