This video features a member of the Israeli parliament from the Balad party, Dr. Jamal Zahalka, along with Moshe Feiglin, a rightwing member of the parliament.
Zahalka: Honorable Chair, Ladies and Gentleman of the Knesset
Feiglin: Yes go ahead, please.
Zahalka: Even before I was born, before it was even conceived and started to take form, the idea of a nation-Jewish state received criticism which is also relevant today. In 1939 the Zionist congress which convened at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City decided to establish a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine. A year later the Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt writes — who was a Zionist in her way, she wasn’t an anti-Zionist, she fled from the Nazis in Germany and settled in the U.S. — she wrote an article that expressed a staunch opposition to an idea [of a national-Jewish state], she said you offer the Palestinians, residents of the land, a second class citizenship. This is what she wrote in 1941.
Feiglin: Did she say the word Palestinians?
Zahalka: Palestine. Of course. Palestine Eretz Israel. That is how it was called and written in English. She wrote in English not in Hebrew.
Feiglin: I’d be happy to see the source.
Zahalka: OK, I suggest you read her. You are of course in her exact opposite world.
Feiglin: I only ask to see the source.
Zahalka: Because she has a human world view, against totalitarianism, ultra-nationalism, so listen a little, learn a little.
Other: Are you sitting here as a reviewer?
Feiglin: Just because, just interested.
Zahalka: She wrote, c’mon she was an anti-Nazi, anti-fascist. You’re a fascist. You’re just a fascist, let me carry on speaking….
Feiglin: No I will not.
Zahalka: It is not a curse for you, “fascist” is a compliment.
Feiglin: No I will not allow you to carry on, even though your words were very interesting.
Zahalka: She wrote…
Feiglin: No, you will stop now.
Zahalka: You won’t stop me.
Feiglin: Of course I will stop you.
Zahalka: You will not stop me.
Feiglin: Because you will not call the Chair a fascist.
Zahalka: You will not stop me!
Feiglin: I ask of the ushers to bring down the speaker.
Zahalka: I observe that you are a fascist. A fascist advocates national supremacy over others! And he’s anti-democratic.
Feiglin: Thank you very much. Of course I can do this.
(guards start dragging Zahalka away as he is yelling)
Zahalka: What do you think this is?!! I won’t let you! I will carry on speaking! I will carry on speaking! What is this?! Fascism is taking over! This is exactly what you’re doing here! You’re fascist and a racist!
Thanks to Ronnie Barkan
“Democracy”, Israeli style. What a cesspool. I’m only surprised that the usher thugs aren’t armed… yet.
Fascist, racist Feiglin gives a shout out to “dear Arab MKs”.
Thanks, Annie and Ronnie.
Poor Kahane, if only he’d kept that ego of his in check that could have been him up there.
Many people think that Kach was banned because it was racist and anti-democratic but that is not true. They were banned from elections in ’88 because they were taking votes from Likud and making the liberals look bad.
Precursor to the “Zoabi Bill”.
Yet Shaked and Feiglin and others are allowed to spew forth.
The Light unto the nations shows us it,s Liberal democracy in action.
You got to admit , Rivlin knows his people so very well but I am afraid there is no cure for their sickness except isolation and the destruction of zionism (do I get banned for not capitalising zionism) .Communism was mild compared to the goals of these vile reprobates.
I note that Elizabeth Warren was paying fealty visit to Knesset when the incident happened.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-25/elizabeth-warrens-funfilled-visit-to-israels-knesset