Loading ...Knesset OK'ed US lecture tour by anti-Israel lawmaker
A controversial and outspoken Israeli Arab Knesset member traveled to the United States recently with Knesset approval to deliver a speech accusing Israel of apartheid policies.
The Walla News site reported that the trip was funded by several Arab American organizations, information that was relayed to the Knesset’s legal department by MK Hanin Zoabi when she requested permission for the trip.
According to Walla, Zoabi omitted some of the events she was to attend during her eight-day US visit – including a speech at Columbia University on “Israel, racism and apartheid: an inside look with Hanin Zoabi” and one at Harvard entitled “Being a Palestinian lawmaker in a Jewish state”.
The Knesset’s legal affairs department told Walla News in response that it was not authorized to intervene in the contents of lawmakers’ planned travel abroad, only to ensure that it is not funded by private individuals but by recognized public bodies. It also said lawmakers were not obliged to report every event they attend.
At her Columbia speech, Zoabi attacked Israel for “not only having racist laws, but laws connected to loyalty. According to Israeli law, if you ask for equality, it’s illegal… this is a state conducted as a Zionist racist project, not as a state entity.”
Source: www.i24news.tv