Sapir College in southern Israel has canceled Otzma Yehudit candidate for Knesset attorney Itamar Ben-Givir’s participation in an election panel scheduled for this Sunday, March 31, 2019. The organizers at Sapir explained they were told if Ben-Givir is present, three other parties planning to participate would not attend.

This follows the outcry by Arab and left-wing Israeli students at Jerusalem Hebrew University, calling on school officials to cancel his participation from an election panel in the university.

It is pointed out that there were no similar protests heard regarding the participation of Dr. Ofer Kasif, a MK from the Hadash party who Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked referred to as a “Neo-Nazi scum”, adding the Arab MK legitimizes harming IDF soldiers.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)