Though all Knesset members were invited to take part in the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Haneen Zoabi (Joint List) has refused to take part.
MK Zoabi sent a strongly-worded letter to the organizers in response to her invitation. "How can you teach the lessons of the Holocaust when there is no difference between the terrifying images of what is occurring around us today and what took place in Germany during the 30s?" she asked. "This is the danger: summary executions, detentions without trial, torture, gag orders, prosecuting protesters and political activists."