Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, buoyed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to ban Muslim Brotherhood chapters in the United States, has announced his intention to do the same in Israel.

“This is an organization that endangers stability throughout the Middle East and beyond the Middle East as well,” Netanyahu said on Sunday. “Therefore, the State of Israel has already outlawed part of the organization, and we are working to complete this action soon.”

By “part of the organization,” Netanyahu referred to the Israeli Security Cabinet’s November 2015 ban of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement. Led by Sheikh Raed Salah, the faction rejects Israel’s right to exist, seeks to replace Israel with an Islamic caliphate and does not recognize its governing institutions.

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