Ofer Cassif — a Knesset member representing the far-left, Arab-majority Hadash coalition — has expressed his support for this week’s hearing at the ICJ assessing South Africa’s accusations of genocide against Israel, Al Jazeera reports.

In a post on X, he accused the Israeli government of leading “South Africa to turn to The Hague”.

“My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all of its residents, not to a government whose members and its coalition are calling for ethnic cleansing and even actual genocide,” he wrote.

In October, Cassif was suspended by the Israeli parliament’s ethics panel after he compared Netanyahu’s Gaza plan with the Nazis’ “Final Solution” against Jews in Europe.

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