Overview

• The Knesset House Committee voted 14-2 on June 30 to advance impeachment proceedings against Ayman Odeh over comments seen as pro-Palestinian and critical of the Gaza war.
• The case moves to the full Knesset Plenum, where 90 affirmative votes are required to expel him from parliament.
• Knesset legal adviser Sagit Ofek expressed doubt that Odeh’s remarks meet the legal criteria for supporting an armed struggle by a terrorist organisation.
• Committee chairman Ofir Katz described Odeh as an “eighth front” in Israel’s multi-front war, reflecting intensified rhetoric against dissenting voices.
• Odeh’s allies denounce the proceedings as a racially motivated campaign to silence Palestinian citizens and limit Arab political representation.