The Knesset Ethics Committee punished MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) on Monday for participating in last year’s Gaza flotilla, forbidding her to take part in all Knesset discussions until the end of the summer session – a decision Zoabi called “the decision of an automatic right-wing, racist majority.”
Three MKs, Michael Ben-Ari (National Union), Danny Danon (Likud) and Orit Zuaretz (Kadima) filed complaints to the Ethics Committee about Zoabi’s participation in the May 2010 blockade-breaking flotilla, aboard the Mavi Marmara.
Ben-Ari said Zoabi “took advantage of her parliamentary immunity” in order to “incite against IDF soldiers and the State of Israel” during a press conference following her participation in the flotilla.
