Zoabi: Danon’s Campaign Video ‘Filled with Violence’
December 25, 2014As she promised to do, MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) on Thursday filed a complaint with the police against MK Danny Danon (Likud) over his animated campaign video.
Zoabi claimed that the video, in which she and members of her party are portrayed as villains who are kicked out of a bar by Danon, who is portrayed as a cowboy of “the real right”, included defamation and incitement to violence.
She said, according to Channel 10 News, that the animated video contains “defamation, libel and incitement to hatred and physical violence.”
“This is a person who has no political achievements and there is no point in him focusing his campaign on me,” Zoabi told the channel, shortly after filing the complaint with the police.
She continued by saying that the video is “filled with violence” and in fact dangerous, in part because of the scene where the cowboy Danon points a gun to Zoabi. She added that she was not aware of any investigation over the video, although she says it “incites hatred”.
Danon promises in the video to fight Zoabi using the Zoabi Bill, which would make it possible for a 61-member majority in the Knesset to permanently dismiss an MK who expressed support for a terror organization or for a state that takes belligerent action against Israel.
Danon announced on Tuesday he was collecting signatures from members of Israel’s Central Elections Committee to bar the radical Zoabi from running, in light of her “consistent” statements in support of terrorism and against the existence of the State of Israel.
Zoabi took part in the Mavi Marmara terror flotilla in 2010, and recently called the IDF soldiers who boarded the Marara “murderers.” She is infamous for provocative speeches, including one in which she said that Israel has “no right to a normal life” and a later address claiming that “the Israeli occupation” was behind the murder of Israelis in Bulgaria.
More recently, Zoabi wrote an article encouraging Hamas on the terror group’s website, and was briefly handcuffed during violent pro-Palestinian protests in Haifa.
Before the 2013 election, the Central Elections Committee banned Zoabi from running for the Knesset, under a clause requiring candidates and parties not to work against Israel’s character as a Jewish, democratic state. However, the Supreme Court later overturned the decision and allowed Zoabi to run.
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