Chairman Ayman Odeh of the Joint Arab List in the Knesset responded to the Ministerial Committee on Legislation's endorsement of a law limiting the use of amplifiers outside mosques by saying, "This is another in a sequence of wrongs by this government with the sole objective of marking the Arab public as the enemy within."
Odeh explained "This law does not deal with noise and the quality of life but is only racist incitement against a national minority. The sound of the Muezzin was here long before the Netanyahu government's racists and will remain afterward."