Right-wing lawmakers called once again for the impeachment of far-left MK Ofer Cassif after he posted a tweet comparing Israeli plans to encourage voluntary migration of Palestinians from Gaza to the flight of German Jews abroad before World War II.

In a post on X on Tuesday morning, Cassif, the only Jewish lawmaker in the Arab-majority Hadash-Ta’al party, shared a picture of Jews lined up outside an emigration office in Vienna in 1938, stating that “this month, exactly 86 years ago, the ‘Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration’ was established in Berlin with the aim of encouraging voluntary emigration of German Jews.”

Cassif has been a vocal opponent of US President Donald Trump’s plan for postwar Gaza, eagerly embraced by Israeli leaders, to permanently relocate Palestinians living in the largely destroyed coastal enclave.

Cassif has condemned any “Arab deportation and exile” and promised that “even if we have to lie down under the wheels of trucks, even if we have to blow up the bridges, there will be no mass deportation by force, because we will not allow it to happen.”

Following Cassif’s tweet on Tuesday, Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen filed a complaint with the Knesset Ethics Committee, calling him a “terrorist supporter” and complaining about “his vile and disgraceful comparison of the voluntary emigration program for Gaza residents to the voluntary emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany.”

Cohen said that he would begin collecting MKs’ signatures in order to........

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