A Duty, Not A Crime: Anti-Fascist Politician Israel Wants Silenced

Is there, like, I'm so curious because I hear you saying, like, you are obviously so vocal and then your party is being targeted because obviously they're also very vocal.

Are there, is the, like, sentiment in the Knesset, is there more, I guess, being inspired by you and your bravery, is there more sentiment to recognize this in the Knesset or is it the opposite?

Look, one of the main problems...

One of the main things that allowed those crimes against humanity to go on in Gaza and the West Bank, let's not forget, and by the way, southern Lebanon as well, is that there is no opposition but us.

There is an opposition by name, but not by action.

The vast majority of the so-called opposition, Yesh Atid of Yair Lapid, for instance, Lieberman was not less fascist than those who composed the government.

Gantz, and for too long the labor itself, didn't say one word against the crimes that Israel is guilty of.

Neither in Gaza nor in the other places.

So we were totally alone.

And because of that, When there was, by the way, the vote on my impeachment, some of the Yeshe Atid members of the Knesset, if I remember correctly, seven of them out of 22 or something like that, voted to impeach me.

And the others didn't vote against it.

They just ran out of the plenum to refrain from voting.

And of course, it's even worse if we talk about fascist laws.

Some of them, not all of them, some of them, the governments or the coalition succeeded in enacting them because there was no opposition to stand against them but us.

And that's also the answer for what you said.

If there is any influence, I believe that Too little and too late, but better than ever, when members of the labor fraction, the Knesset, and by the way, not all of them, out of four, two or three, when they began to raise their voice against the crimes in the West Bank and even in Gaza, and I think the first time it was perhaps two years after the genocide began.

I dare say that they did it because we paved the way.

They wouldn't admit that.

But I do believe that we paved the way.

And now you can see that the mainstream speakers like Borgia Alon, he was the chief of staff.

He was the defense minister of Netanyahu's three governments ago.

He speaks about ethnic cleansing and war crimes.

Erdogan, he was the prime minister.

Look how he speaks.

Yes.