MK Almog Cohen filed a complaint with the Ethics Committee today (Monday) against MK Ofer Kasif, for his statement last night that the IDF was committing “genocide” in the elimination of the wanted in Rafah. According to Cohen, “Kasif, who remained in the Knesset thanks to the kindness of Gantz, Lapid, Eisenkot and Ben Barak, 2 Chiefs of Staff and Deputy Head of the Mossad, continues to slander IDF soldiers who act according to international law, and all this while in the Israeli Knesset. Every step he takes in the Israeli House of Representatives is a disgrace.”
Yesterday Kasif published a post on the social network X, in which he wrote in Hebrew and English in reference to the attack in Rafah: “Massacre in Rafah. Gaza Genocide criminals – to be brought to justice.” Kassif referred to the killing of two senior Hamas officials and the Palestinian claim that over 30 civilians were killed in the attack.
As you may recall, about two weeks ago Kasif submitted a complaint to the Knesset’s Ethics Committee against the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gabir, who Kasif says called him a “terrorist” and “terrorist supporter” in the Knesset plenum. In Koblena, Kasif claimed that Ben Gabir “used inciting and false language and called him, among other things, prohibited and inciting statements.” Kassif claims a campaign of nationalist political incitement and personal persecution.
Minister Ben Gvir replied to him: “This coup should never have happened, since it was submitted with such a distinct lack of cleanliness. In the very same debate in the plenum, the coup discredited the HM and declared that he is a ‘terrorist who has the blood of those who fall on his hands, the blood of the residents of the Negev on your hands’, and called the chairman of the plenum a ‘violent thug’ several times, and because of this he was even expelled from the plenum. A member of Knesset cannot shout and slander and then hurry up and file a complaint because they responded to him. Therefore, this complaint must be rejected outright. Needless to say that Most of the members of the ethics committee, including the chairman, voted in plenary in favor of the removal of Knesset member Ofer Kasif, and for good reason.”
It should be noted that at the beginning of this month, the “Bezalmo” organization filed another complaint against Kasif, after it published a post on Holocaust Day in which he wrote: “Precisely on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the government in Israel begins a genocide of civilians who are trying to take their own lives. Yes to a deal to release abductees. No to an invasion on Rafih”.
In addition, according to “Bezelmo”, Kasif commented on a video of soldiers singing and praying for victory and wrote: “This is not what an army looks like in the service of a country or a people; this is what a phalanx of Messianic racists dressed for murder looks like.”
In February, Kasif was saved from being expelled from the Knesset after the majority needed to remove his membership was not obtained. The Knesset plenum voted on the proposal to impeach him, but at the end of the vote it became clear that the majority of 90 Knesset members required for impeachment was not reached: 85 Knesset members supported the proposal to impeach Kasif against 11 Knesset members who opposed.
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