Knesset Member Compares Gazans’ Voluntary Relocation To Holocaust

MK Amog Cohen of Otzma Yehudit declared on Tuesday that he plans to file a formal grievance with the Knesset’s Ethics Committee against MK Ofer Cassif from Hadash, after Cassif drew a controversial comparison between the voluntary relocation of Gazans and the forced relocation of Jews during the Holocaust.

Cassif ignited a public uproar when he shared a photo on X showing Jews being lined up for deportation from Vienna, accompanied by a caption that read, “Exactly 86 years this month, the Central Office for Jewish Emigration was created in Berlin to encourage the voluntary emigration of German Jews.”

The Central Office for Jewish Emigration, established by Adolf Eichmann, funded the departure of Jews by using money taken from wealthier Jews to finance the expulsion of others.

In reaction to this, MK Cohen responded, saying: “I have just submitted a complaint to the Knesset’s Ethics Board against the terror supporter, Ofer Cassif, for the perverse and disgraceful comparison between the plan for the voluntary relocation of Gazans and the voluntary emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany. I hope that he will again be severely punished and his salary will be withheld. This traitor is not worthy of being in the Israeli Knesset and certainly not as a public representative. He represents the interests of Hamas and the BDS movement and serves as a fifth column in our midst.”

Simultaneously, MK Cohen announced he had started gathering the 90 signatures needed from Knesset members to expel Cassif from the Knesset and urged the leaders of the opposition, MKs Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz, Gadi Eisencot, and Ram Ben-Barak, to endorse the initiative. “I hope that this time, they will stand up and help remove him,” he remarked.

{Matzav.com Israel}