Ugly scenes unfolded in the Lod – Central District Court on Tuesday, as incendiary Likud MK Tally Gotliv compared a security guard who forcibly ejected her from a hearing on the Qatargate affair to Jews who implemented Nazi instructions under duress during the Holocaust.

Gotliv had persistently interrupted the proceedings, leading Judge Amit Michles to order her removed from the hearing.

The incendiary MK refused to leave, however, claiming she had parliamentary immunity. After she declined the requests of security guards to leave of her own accord, Gotliv was physically removed by the guards.

As she was ejected from the courtroom, Gotliv called the security guard who removed her “an animal,” and compared him to the “Judenrat,” the Nazi-established Jewish administrative councils that were forced to ensure Nazi orders were implemented.

Channel 12 subsequently reported that the security guard in question is a combat soldier and deputy company commander in the IDF reserves, and that his grandmother was a Holocaust survivor.

His mother told the news outlet that her son has served some 400 days in IDF reserve duty since the war with Hamas began following the October 7 atrocities, and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to condemn Gotliv’s remarks.

The MK’s comments were roundly condemned across the political spectrum, including by Likud’s Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, as well as the leaders of the opposition, although not by Netanyahu.

Levin said Gotliv’s comments were “a........

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