aida touma sliman injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, thank you stephen. it is a pleasure to have you on the show. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. let me ask you a simple first question how much has changed for you and for your community in israel since october the 7th? there was a life, that is not so easy before october 7th, but now it is unbearable after october 7th. we were thinking that our main struggle would be for peace, and the occupation of our own people in the west bank and gaza, and struggling for our rights to be equal citizens, and to have equality and to be able to develop our community in an equal way like thejewish community in israel. after october 7th, although before that we felt racism, after 7th october, we feel really threatened. we feel terrorised also on the establishment level from ministers and policies led by the government, and from the general public. we became suddenly as if terrorists in potential. i want to talk at length
aida touma sliman injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, thank you, stephen. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. let me ask you a simple first question how much has changed for you and for your community in israel since october the 7th? oh, you can think about it in this way. there was a life, that is not so easy before october 7th, but now it is unbearable after october 7th. we were thinking that our main struggle would be for peace, and the occupation of our own people in the west bank and gaza, and struggling for our rights to be equal citizens, and to have equality and to be able to develop our community in an equal way like thejewish community in israel. after october 7th, although before that we felt racism, after 7th october, we feel really threatened. we feel terrorised also on the establishment level from ministers and policies led by the government, and from the general public. we became suddenly as if terrorists in potential. i want to talk at length a
i just wonder whether it was wise and responsible for you again, as a citizen, for example, as you referred to your tweets, your social media use on x what you actually accused the israeli government of, by echoing a report that had been on the media, you accused them of using white phosphorus in gaza. i didn t accuse them of anything, i brought testimonies. and i don t understand, i m a politician. crosstalk. you repeated a media report which referred to the use of phosphorus. stephen. stephen! ..which your own knesset described was unacceptable and that s why you were sanctioned. what do you mean my own knesset decided that it s unacceptable? well, a committee sat in judgement of you and they decided you should be punished. yeah, they decided this is part of mccarthyism. when other members of parliament are deciding for me
in the parliament, i worked for all people in an equal approach not like this fascist government that we have now in israel that is only meant to work for the settlers and for thejewish society not seeing us as equal citizens. when i promoted laws in the knesset believe me, i managed to legislate a lot, and i was heading, chairing, the committee for equality for women and promoting the status of women. i worked for all women in israel. so i m not the one to be blamed of racist approaches. if i may, aida, you make a very valid point. and as part of my homework , i absolutely saw that you have had a tradition of working across party lines.
and responsible for you, and responsible for you your social media use on x what you actually accused the israeli government of, by echoing a report that had been on the media, you accused them of using white phosphorus in gaza. i didn t accuse them of anything, i brought testimonies. and i don t understand, i m a politician. crosstalk. you repeated a media report which referred to the use of phosphorus. stephen. stephen! ..which your own knesset described was unacceptable and that s why you were sanctioned. what do you mean my own knesset decided that was unacceptable? decided that it s unacceptable? well, a committee sat injudgement of you and they decided you should be punished. yeah, they decided this is part of mccarthyism. when other members of parliament are deciding for me what can be said and what cannot be said when i m a parliamentarian, i have immunity