Ayman Odeh's Courageous Speech in Knesset

by Scott Creighton

from Ayman Odeh

'The full speech that Speaker of the Knesset did not allow me to complete'

 

Ayman Odeh is a a lawyer and a member of Hadash party. He is a Muslim Arab. Hadash is a socialist party which was the first to openly support a two-state solution in the Knesset. They also advocate for complete removal of settlements in the West Bank. 

'Israel's internal intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, has interrogated Odeh many times in the past. He said in an interview to The New Yorker: "I was called three more times by the Shin Bet. They never hit me. But they succeeded in two things. I isolated myself from my friends—I became much more introverted. And I had the sense the Shin Bet was watching me no matter where I went. When I went to the bus station, and I saw some guy in sunglasses, I just assumed he was Shin Bet."

A right-wing activist was arrested in February 2016 for making death threats against Odeh' Wiki

This man knows what price will be extracted from him for making these honest and passionate statements in public about the genocide and Netanyahu. Still, he did it.

We don't have a single politician or congress critter who would ever be so honest and honorable. Not one. Certainly not one who has already been targeted for attack and drilled by the likes of Shin Bet.

I tip my hat to Ayman Odeh for putting his own life at risk in the hopes of saving the lives of children in Gaza. 

The world needs more like him.