MK Hanin Zoabi announced Saturday that she will not be running in the coming 2019 elections as she wishes to take some time off to reflect on her career in the Knesset. The announcement was met with applause and cheers from lawmakers both on the left and the right.

“After 10 full years, I thank everyone and I feel that the time has come to change the location, but not the way,” Zoabi said in a statement. The controversial parliamentarian insisted she would carrying working to “strengthen Balad’s model for a stronger Palestinian generation and a more determined struggle, in the belief that justice will be done.”

“This is a moment when it is customary to conclude a period of self-examination and look into the future. I will not give myself a grade,” Zoabi’s statement read. “There were those who appreciate and even supported my actions and what I represented, and there were many more who hated and fought against me and my views.”

Zoabi has a long history of being a blatant anti-semite and terrorists supporter.

Below are just a small taste of what she has said over the past 10 years.

On May 31, 2010, Zoabi participated in the Gaza flotilla, and was on board the MV Mavi Marmara when violence broke out as Israeli commandos boarded the ship. Zoabi was arrested and briefly held by authorities. At a news conference upon her release, Zoabi called the raid “criminal”.

She has compared the State of Israel to “Nazis”.

She said Israel was “worse than ISIS”.

In 2014, Zoabi justified the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers as a valid method for Palestinians to respond to the “occupation”. She stated that the murders were “not terrorists.”

She has repeatedly referred to IDF Soldiers as “murderers”.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)