ISRAELI Knesset member Ofer Cassif of the Communist Party of Israel was today targeted for removal from office after signing a petition accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.

This comes ahead of the case against Israel being spearheaded by the South African government at the International Court of Justice later this week.

Mr Cassif, the sole Jewish MK in the predominantly Arab Hadash-Ta’al coalition which includes the Communist Party, said on Sunday: “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.