United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus on Monday sparked furor after he was asked in the Knesset Education Committee if he believes police should shoot protesters in the legs if they are blocking roads, to which he responded that they should “start with” Democrats party MK Naama Lazimi.

At the meeting, Yesh Atid MK Adi Azuz asked Pindrus, who has in the past expressed support for police to open fire on anti-government protesters who block roads, if he was in favor of police taking such action against his party leader, Yitzhak Goldknopf.

The UTJ chairman led last week’s Haredi anti-draft protest, during which thousands of ultra-Orthodox men blocked Route 1 for several hours, with the senior Haredi MK at the front of the pack in his motorcade.

Responding to the question, Pindrus, smiling, said: “Sure, but start with Naama Lazimi.”

Lazimi is a prominent figure among the anti-government protest movement and has participated in the blocking of roads at several demonstrations over the past few years. She has also been physically roughed up and verbally accosted by police officers at a number of protests, in what she has said amounts to assault and part of a larger police effort to suppress democracy.

Responding to Pindrus’s comments, Lazimi said it was a “full-on endorsement of........

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