Coalition chairman MK David Bitan (Likud) declared on Friday that he was looking into the legal possibility of revoking the citizenship of Hagai El-Ad, the executive director of the leftist organization B’Tselem, after he spoke against Israel during a UN Security Council meeting on Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria.
Speaking on Channel 2, Bitan said that El-Ad’s speech at the meeting, in which he called on members of the Security Council to work “to end the occupation in the West Bank”, was a “blatant breach of trust by an Israeli citizen to the state, and as such, he should find another nationality.”
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