Bill Allowing Far-Right Gov’t to Deport Relatives of ‘Terrorists’ Passes Preliminary Reading
A bill allowing the government to deport relatives of convicted Palestinian “terrorists” passes last Tuesday, February 6, a preliminary reading 17-6 in the Knesset plenum. The bill, sponsored by MK Almog Cohen of the racist Otzma Yehudit party, allows the interior minister to order the deportation of family members who either had advance knowledge of…