BID TO OUST ISRAELI MP FOR backing ICJ CASE FAILS
February 22, 2024🔻Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s extreme right coalition suffered an embarrassing blow in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) yesterday after a motion to expel left-wing Knesset Member, Ofer Kassif, who supported South Africa’s case for genocide at the International Court of Justice in January, FAILED!
Cassif is an outspoken opponent of the government and its military onslaught on Gaza and the massacre of Palestinian civilians. Surprisingly, two members of Netanyahu’s war council, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenko, voted AGAINST his expulsion.
A total of 85 of the 120 members of the Knesset backed the motion to oust Cassif in a plenum session, five votes short of the 90-seat supermajority required.
The highly unusual vote to expel a sitting member of parliament reflects the fury in Israel at the case brought by South Africa, alleging that Israel’s campaign to destroy the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza amounted to genocide.
Cassif, whose communist Hadash party sits in the opposition as part of a joint list with the left-wing Arab Ta’al party, signed an open letter backing the allegations, although he dismissed claims that he supported Hamas.
Cassif said the real aim of the vote was “”political persecution and silencing of every critical voice in general and of Arab citizens and their representatives in the Knesset in particular”” and his motivation in signing the petition was “”liberal scepticism””.
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