Labor leader on Supreme Court ruling: The story is behind us now

• Published date: 01 March 2021
• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

"The Supreme Court has handed down its ruling and we see this story as a closed story. These are things she wrote many years ago, more than ten years ago, she completely took them back, she made it clear that she no longer stands behind these things," Michaeli told the joint election program of i24NEWS and Israel Hayom.

Michaeli added that Mara'ana "intentionally and knowingly joined a Zionist party, she and we are interested in building a better common future for all the different parts of Israeli society."

Michaeli was asked how she, as the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, feels about the posts made by Mara'ana and replied, "My grandfather's legacy is not in dispute at all. He is immortalized at Yad Vashem as someone who saved at least 20,000 Jews. Ibtisam is married to a third generation of Holocaust survivors and they raise a child together, and as they describe her, 'she is 100% Jewish and 100% Muslim', she has a mother-in-law who is a second generation Holocaust survivor. She has respect for every aspect of the Holocaust."

The Labor chairwoman noted that she forgave Mara'ana for her past posts and added, "If she had not taken responsibility for the posts it would have been a completely different story. But she took responsibility, she even called some of the texts 'pathetic', because she was...