Right-wing and Arab legislators in Israel hurled insults at each other as the Knesset began its fall session with a fresh round of parliamentary fireworks. Knesset member Azmi Beshara of the leftist Hadash Party was ejected from a meeting of the Interior Committee after he called legislator Binyamin Alon of the right-wing Moledet Party a demagogue and Nazi. Alon drew Beshara’s ire for defending a border police officer who was testifying before the committee on recent clashes between security forces and residents of the Israeli Arab town of Umm el-Fahm.
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