MK Haneen Zoabi (Photo: Reuters)
Photo: Reuters
MK Haneen Zoabi indicted
In a plea bargain, the Joint List MK is indicted for insulting a public worker and not for incitement to violence, after she verbally attacked Arab police officers.
Joint List MK Haneen Zoabi was indicted on Thursday for insulting a public worker after a plea bargain was agreed last month to bring the charge down from incitement to violence.
The indictment comes in the wake of Zoabi's verbal attack on Arab police officers in the days following the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir in July 2014.
Joint List MK Haneen Zoabi, indicted for insulting a public official (Photo: Gil Yohanan)
According to the charge, on July 6, 2014, hearings took place in the Nazareth Magistrates' Court requesting that the arrest of two suspects involved in riots that had spread throughout the Arab-Israeli population be extended. The incidents had included clashes with police forces.
During the hearings two Arab police investigators, Ehab Haddad and Bushur Amer, were represented by the state.
During a break in one of the hearings, the two were standing outside the courtroom with Zoabi. Zoabi, it is claimed, raised her voice and said that they were traitors who were sent to gather information and eavesdrop on people.
Zoabi then called out in Arabic to those present that they should work against the police due to their being "Arabs in the service of the state."
The indictment also claims that Zoabi shouted that people should spit in the policemen's faces, and said: "They are against our sons and daughters, they should not be among us. They should be afraid of us, of our youth that have been arrested because of the information they send."
The prosecutor noted that one of the people present at the hearing filmed part of the event, after which Zoabi's words were published online.
