Senior Likud MK and Deputy Defense Minister Ze'ev Boim charged, "Feiglin is a foreign element and a Trojan Horse in the Likud. His ideology is extreme and dangerous. I hope Likud members who love the country and the land of Israel will find the right ways to throw the dangerous affliction of Feiglin and his followers out of the Likud."
Election committee Judge Yaakov Tirkel, a High Court judge whose tenure will come to an end this year, ruled Sunday that Feiglin's conviction for sedition eight years ago does not make prohibit him from running in the next elections. He was charged after organizing demonstrators to block intersections in protest of agreements between the government and Yasser Arafat.
Prior to the last election which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won in a landslide, Feiglin convinced thousands of supporters to join the Likud, following the strategy of influencing from within the dominant party rather than fighting it with a minority party.
Sharon aides openly have expressed concern about Feiglin's support, and his recent distribution of 100,000 copies of a pamphlet "Obligation to Disobey" made him the target of denunciation Monday from several parties.
Feiglin defended his pamphlet, which calls on soldiers to refuse orders to participate in military actions to expel Jews from 24 communities, as the government proposes. He said refusing the orders would not bring about a breakup of the army. "It will build it as an ethical army," he wrote in the pamphlet. "Anyone with a human conscience must act against the oppressive anti-democratic regime."
The pamphlet includes quotes from early Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky, whose ideology forms the basis of the Likud party.
Likud MK Michael Eitan suggested the party's Knesset members examine the issue and added, "The [pamphlet's] expressions are difficult, undemocratic and damage the country and the Likud party."
Shinui MK Chemi Doron called on Attorney-General Meni Mazuz to bring Feiglin to trial on charges of rebellion. Mazuz recommended to Justice Tirkel that Feiglin be barred from running in the elections.
Election committee Judge Yaakov Tirkel, a High Court judge whose tenure will come to an end this year, ruled Sunday that Feiglin's conviction for sedition eight years ago does not make prohibit him from running in the next elections. He was charged after organizing demonstrators to block intersections in protest of agreements between the government and Yasser Arafat.
Prior to the last election which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won in a landslide, Feiglin convinced thousands of supporters to join the Likud, following the strategy of influencing from within the dominant party rather than fighting it with a minority party.
Sharon aides openly have expressed concern about Feiglin's support, and his recent distribution of 100,000 copies of a pamphlet "Obligation to Disobey" made him the target of denunciation Monday from several parties.
Feiglin defended his pamphlet, which calls on soldiers to refuse orders to participate in military actions to expel Jews from 24 communities, as the government proposes. He said refusing the orders would not bring about a breakup of the army. "It will build it as an ethical army," he wrote in the pamphlet. "Anyone with a human conscience must act against the oppressive anti-democratic regime."
The pamphlet includes quotes from early Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky, whose ideology forms the basis of the Likud party.
Likud MK Michael Eitan suggested the party's Knesset members examine the issue and added, "The [pamphlet's] expressions are difficult, undemocratic and damage the country and the Likud party."
Shinui MK Chemi Doron called on Attorney-General Meni Mazuz to bring Feiglin to trial on charges of rebellion. Mazuz recommended to Justice Tirkel that Feiglin be barred from running in the elections.