The Knesset ministerial legislation committee is to convene on Sunday to discuss the approval of a new Likud bill calling for preventing Israeli leftist organizations from filing legal complaints or petitions with the high court of justice on behalf of Palestinian citizens.
According to Hebrew news websites the new bill may cause severe differences among the government coalition partners especially since Israel’s minister of finance Moshe Kahlon head of the Kulanu Party tends to reject it.
The bill proposes making an amendment to basic legislation in order to ban left-wing organizations in Israel from going to the high court of justice to defend rights taken from Palestinians especially with regard to lands seized by Israel and Jewish settlers.
The bill which was submitted by right-wing Likud MK Miki Zohar needs to be approved by the ministerial committee for legislation at the Knesset before it is tabled for vote in the plenum hall. The bill is voted into a law after passing three readings.
