Solberg Orders Ben-Gvir to Remove Video of Him Visiting Prison Alongside Prison Guard
The elections committee said the footage was electoral propaganda and ordered Ben-Gvir to pay 20,000 shekels in costs.
- On Thursday, Israel's Central Elections Committee ordered National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to delete a video featuring convicted terrorist Hassan Salameh, ruling the footage constituted illegal election propaganda.
- Ben-Gvir frequently shares videos of himself confronting inmates to promote his political agenda, hoping the displays bolster his bid to become defense minister under the next government.
- Central Elections Committee Chairman Judge Noam Solberg determined the minister boasted about actions and conveyed a personal message, ordering Ben-Gvir to pay 10,000 shekels to each of two rights groups.
- The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel welcomed the decision on Friday, with legal director Merav Ben-Zeev stating the ruling should deter the minister from treating prisons as private property.
- Critics argue these spectacles perpetuate cycles of violence and political theater, with observers noting such actions resemble authoritarian power plays that endanger democratic institutions and detainees alike.
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Israel's far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has been fined for a bizarre campaign video in which he threatens a Palestinian prisoner with death.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has been fined by the country's election commission for a video in which he threatens to execute a high-ranking Hamas member. According to the authority, which describes it as "election propaganda," it is an attempt to solicit votes made with public funds.
"I want to kill you," said Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, addressing a Hamas member convicted of attacks, in a video broadcast a month before the 27 October legislative elections.
Ben Gvir, a far-right figure who aspires to become defense minister if his governing coalition wins, often appears in videos where he curses and threatens Palestinian prisoners The post “I want to execute you”: Ben Gvir threatens Palestinian prisoner in video – Fined for “election propaganda” appeared first on in.gr.
Israeli minister fined over video showing him threaten Palestinian inmate
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has been fined for posting a video where he threatened a Palestinian prisoner, deemed electoral propaganda. The video shows Ben Gvir confronting a Hamas official in an Israeli prison.
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