MK Danny Danon of the Likud announced Wednesday that he will present what has been dubbed the Zouabi Bill to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation this Sunday for its approval. See video below.
Danon's bill would enable the Knesset plenum to remove a Knesset Member from office in mid-term if it finds that, through his or her speech or actions, he or she negated the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state; incited to racism; and/or supported an armed struggle by an enemy state or a terror group against the State of Israel.
In order to set the removal mechanism into motion, the initiative to remove the MK would have to be signed by at least 30 MKs, and at least 80 MKs (a full two-thirds of the Knesset) would have to vote in its favor.
The same criteria listed in the bill are used by the Elections Committee to determine whether a political list may run for Knesset. These criteria were used in the past to prevent the late Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach movement and certain Arab lists from running, though the Elections Committee's decisions with regard to the Arab parties were later overturned by the High Court.
A nearly identical bill was proposed by MK Esterina Tartman (Israel Our Home) in the previous Knesset, but failed to pass.