US EditionAyman Odeh to Be Impeached? Deciding Vote on Hadash-Ta’al Chairman Scheduled for Monday
JERUSALEM DISTRICT, ISRAEL, JUL 13 – The expulsion requires a 90-member supermajority, but opposition reluctance and legal doubts make success unlikely, with Arab citizens comprising 21% of Israel’s population.
- The Israeli Knesset voted on Monday on a motion to impeach Hadash-Ta'al chairman MK Ayman Odeh, but the motion failed to reach the required 90 votes for expulsion.
- Likud MK Avihai Boaron launched the impeachment process against Odeh based on a January social media message in which Odeh expressed approval of the freeing of both Israeli captives and Palestinian detainees, which Boaron cited as evidence of support for terrorism.
- Odeh strongly denied the charges, calling the attempt to remove him from the Knesset disgraceful and anti-democratic, and the Knesset legal advisor found his post insufficient evidence for expulsion.
- The vote tally was 73 in favor and 15 against, with most opposing votes from Arab parties and significant abstentions from some opposition and coalition members, reflecting deep divisions and boycott threats.
- The failed impeachment highlights ongoing political tensions in Israel and raises concerns about limiting parliamentary dissent, with critics warning the process may set a dangerous precedent for silencing minority voices.
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Israeli far-right fail to expel Palestinian lawmaker Ayman Odeh
An attempt by Israel's far-right to expel Palestinian MK Ayman Odeh from the Knesset failed on Monday after a number of opposition lawmakers boycotted the vote. Only 73 MKs supported the motion, falling short of the 90 votes required to expel a sitting member of the assembly. Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid and Benny Gantz's Blue and White - National Unity parties abstained, as did the ultra-orthodox United Torah Judaism, a member of the governing coalit…
Bernie Sanders cheers as Knesset bid to impeach anti-Israel MK fails
After ultra-Orthodox lawmakers resign from the government, motion to expel anti-Israel MK from the Knesset fails to secure three-quarters majority. By World Israel News Staff Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday celebrated the failure of the Israeli Knesset to pass a motion which would have stripped an anti-Israel lawmaker of his seat, after ultra-Orthodox lawmakers resigned from the Netanyahu government. Earlier on Monday, the Knesset voted…
On Sunday, members of the Bundestag of the party Die Linke published a declaration of solidarity for the member of the Knesset, Ayman Odeh, against the efforts to exclude him from the Knesset.
Knesset To Vote On Impeaching Leading Arab MK Who Equated Hostages With Hamas Terrorists
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Knesset plenum is set to hold on Monday a controversial vote regarding the impeachment of Hadash-Ta’al chairman MK Ayman Odeh. Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email The measure, which requires a 90-MK majority, has never passed since the process enabling MKs to impeach a colleague was legislated […]
The Israeli Parliament voted to dismiss the deputy for a message in networks celebrating the exchange of hostages and censoring the "yugo of occupation" Israel condemns its Arab peoples to have no public shelters: "They don't see us as human" The very limited presence of the Arab minority in the Israeli Parliament — barely a dozen deputies in a 120-member chamber — may lose on Monday one of its most prominent figures, the leader of the leftist f…
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