Israel moves to exclude Palestinian parties from parliament

Jonathan Cook reports that Israel moves to exclude Palestinian parties from parliament.

The Israeli parliament has voted overwhelmingly to suspend Haneen Zoabi, a legislator representing the state’s large Palestinian minority, for six months as a campaign to silence political dissent intensified.

Zoabi has not endeared herself to the Hebraic-speaking Israelis. She has criticised the latest assault on Gaza, has called the Israeli Air Force pilots terrorists, and the Israeli Army the equivalent of the violent Islamic State group.

There are other measures being considered to expel Zoabi from parliament and from Israel, as well as excluding Palestinians altogether from parliament. The rabid racism of the Israeli state cannot contemplate the existence and therefore the opinions and feelings of the oppressed Palestinians.

This is all part of the genocidal mind-set that the Zionists now operate under. Since their recent defeats in Gaza and Lebanon, the Zionists must plunge ahead into this madness. There is no way they can admit that they are wrong.

Aeyal Gross, a constitutional law professor at Tel Aviv University, warned that the Knesset’s treatment of Zoabi was “paving the way towards fascism and tyranny”.

The Hebraic-speaking Israelis should remember the Nuremburg Laws that gradually stripped the German Jews of their rights, livelihoods, political representation, among other things. Gross is right to be terrified of what is happening.