Israel's first female Arab Knesset member, Hanin Zoabi of the Balad party was called a traitor by female Likud Knesset member Miri Regev. Zoabi returned to Israeli soil after being on the first ship attempting to dock in Gaza. She was present Wednesday at a Knesset session.
Regev stated, "Zoabi is party to a double crime – joining terrorists and a moral crime against the State of Israel. She must be punished. We don’t need Trojan horses in the Knesset." Regev then shouted at Zoabi in Arabic, "Go to Gaza, traitor." Zoabi said in an interview last week aboard the flotilla said that she identified more with Gazans than with Israelis.