Kahane Stripped of Right to Free Postal Service
The Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, stripped extremist legislator Meir Kahane of his right to free postal service because he sent letters urging Arabs to leave Israel, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
Spokeswoman Sarah Yitzhaki said Parliament voted 34 to 10 in favor of the step, proposed by Communications Minister Amnon Rubenstein.
“It is hard to imagine a worse misuse of parliamentary privilege,” Rubinstein told legislators, adding that the free postal service “was not given in order to terrorize citizens or spoil Parliament’s good name.”
Kahane, head of the Kach Party, was a founder of the New York-based Jewish Defense League and holds dual Israel-U.S. citizenship.
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