Extreme leftist Ofer Cassif was banned from Knesset for six months Monday by the body’s Ethics Committee for his unrelenting, public vilification of Israel and the IDF since the Israel-Hamas war began thirteen months ago.

The committee, consisting of two legislators each from the coalition and Opposition, unanimously decided that the MK’s actions and words went beyond what could be tolerated as free speech, especially during wartime.

The only Jew on the Arab Hadash-Ta’al list was “encouraging bloodshed against IDF soldiers and the State of Israel, while undermining the state’s ability to deal” with charges against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), it said in its decision.