‘A Speaker named Ahmad is still Speaker’

MK Ahmad Tibi refused on Tuesday afternoon to respond to the Ethics Committee’s decision to suspend him from managing plenum talks for two weeks, as a result of an incident involving Minister Ze’ev Elkin.

Sources close to Tibi said that “If an Arab MK would turn in such a way to Knesset Speaker Edelstein, he would be harshly penalized. We fear that the political pressure placed upon the committee and the forces who called for Tibi’s dismissal were a deciding factor in this decision.”

“MK Tibi acted according to protocol as Speaker, yet was a victim of incitement. Even a Speaker named Ahmad is Speaker, unless we’re talking about the Ethics Committee, which is a Jewish and undemocratic committee,” sources within the Arab Joint List said.