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Related: About this forumNew Bayit Yehudi hopeful was detained by Shin Bet for anti-disengagement plot
Bezalel Smotrich secures ninth spot on Bayit Yehudi list after coming second in Tekuma primary; arrested in 2005 for plan to attack national infrastructure.A potential new member of Knesset for the right-wing, pro-settlement Bayit Yehudi party was for a time under Shin Bet surveillance and was even arrested on suspicion of organizing civil disobedience over the 2005 disengagement from Gaza.
Bezalel Smotrich, 34, was elected Sunday to the second spot on the Knesset list of Tekuma, one of the parties that make up Bayit Yehudi. As a result, he wins the ninth spot on the list of Bayit Yehudi, which is headed by Naftali Bennett.
Smotrich was detained in summer 2005 for allegedly planning to block public roads, and released after several weeks. No charges were ultimately brought against him.
In July 2005, it was reported that the Shin Bet seized 700 liters of fuel and oil in the possession of five right-wingers, who allegedly sought to attack Israeli infrastructure to prevent the evacuation from Gaza's settlements. One of the detainees was Smotrich, who was held in a Shin Bet facility.
The five were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit a crime, disruption of public transport routes, endangering human life, malicious damage, membership in a banned organization and sedition.
More @ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4614147,00.html
Results of Tkuma primary :
1) Uri Ariel
2) Bezalel Smotrich
3) Orit Struk
4) Zevulun Kalfa
Tekuma decided yesterday that Ariel, Smotrich, Struk and Kalfa would represent them on their Knesset list in that order. As they are running with Habayit Hayehudi, that means that Ariel would be placed 2nd on the joint list, Smortrich would be placed 9th, Struk would be placed 14th and Kalfa would be placed 18th.
Habayit Hayehudi is expected to win between 15-17 seats in the election, meaning MK Kalfa in unlikely to return to the next Knesset.
Israeli
(4,151 posts)Following wave of comments, including - 'With Gods help, the journalists at Haaretz will be murdered just like in France' - Ronen Shoval promises to remove offending remarks.
By Haaretz
Facebook users have called for the murder of Haaretz journalists, responding to a call by a right-leaning politician who wants an investigation into Haaretzs editors on suspicion of defeatist propaganda under Statute 103 of Israels penal code.
Ronen Shoval, who is running in right-wing party Habayit Hayehudis primary, called for the investigation on Facebook over the weekend. This came after Haaretz had run a cartoon in which its graphic designers paid tribute to the cartoonists killed in the terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in France.
Shoval, a founder of the Im Tirtzu movement that an Israeli court has described as having fascist "similarities, wrote: If we have learned anything, it is that terror attacks are the result of an atmosphere of incitement.
According to Shoval, Unfortunately, the attorney general will not do a thing, as usual. But determined lawmakers can change this situation.
A raft of death threats came in...... We must do what the terrorists did to them in France, but at Haaretz, wrote Facebook user Chai Aloni. Why is there no terror attack at Haaretz? wrote Moni Ponte.
Let the terrorists eliminate them, wrote Daniella Peretz. With Gods help, the journalists at Haaretz will be murdered just like in France, wrote Miki Dahan. As Danit Hajaj put it, They should die.
Haaretz is where the terrorists should have gone, wrote Riki Michael. Death to traitors, added Moshe Mehager. I hope that terrorism reaches Haaretz as well, wrote Tuval Shalom. With Gods help, [there will be] a Hamas operation that kills all of you, like the journalists in France, wrote Ruti Hevroni.
Haaretzs editorial staff said the cartoons published in the project were a personal gesture by the newspapers designers, not the editorial board, and this is how they were presented.
It is astonishing that in the framework of the global debate over freedom of expression and freedom of the press, and at a time when journalists have been killed over the existence of this right, Internet users are demanding that Haaretz completely censor a cartoon whose content they do not like, a spokesman for Haaretzs editorial staff said.
[The cartoon represents] the personal view of the cartoonist, just as the cartoons in Charlie Hebdo expressed the opinions of the cartoonists who worked there and were published in the name of freedom of expression, even though they were provocative and angered many people. The role of caricature, or of any other visual message, is to arouse thought and debate.
Shoval responded to the wave of Facebook comments on Sunday afternoon, promising to remove the offending remarks. "Thank you for drawing my attention to the severe comments posted on my page," Shoval said. "I will make sure to erase them quickly; as you said, I understand that incitement leads to murder. In the same breath, I ask you to remove the caricature immediately."
The cartoon that sparked the death threats (captions in Hebrew read: 10 journalists killed in attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris (top), about 13 journalists killed last summer in attack on Gaza (bottom)
see : .....
Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.636488
See also .....
Meanwhile, Gideon Levy receives a death threat
A menacing letter mailed to Haaretz shows that it's not only Islamic extremists who seek to blunt press freedom with violence.
@ http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.636377
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Israeli
(4,151 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Journalism is in a sorry state these days.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)I suppose at least they get to speak in their own words that way, better to cut the spindoctors out.
Israeli
(4,151 posts)....came by snail mail .....does that make it more or less relevant ??
BTW Mondoweiss is also reporting on this oberliner .......
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/journalists-publication-newspaper
With Gods help, the journalists at Haaretz will be murdered just like in France': Death threats follow publication of cartoon in Israeli newspaper
Any objections to me posting a link to there ???
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Especially whenever there is any kind of terror attacks involving Muslims. (Edit to add: I mean people who claim to be Muslims but actually have nothing to do with Islam in spite of what they say)
They go into overdrive posting articles to deflect attention back to the topic they want everyone to be focused on.
Israeli
(4,151 posts)...but ... I was under the impression that what everyone was focused on was freedom of speech and freedom of the press .
Nu ? ........
Haaretzs editorial staff said the cartoons published in the project were a personal gesture by the newspapers designers, not the editorial board, and this is how they were presented.
It is astonishing that in the framework of the global debate over freedom of expression and freedom of the press, and at a time when journalists have been killed over the existence of this right, Internet users are demanding that Haaretz completely censor a cartoon whose content they do not like, a spokesman for Haaretzs editorial staff said.
the personal view of the cartoonist, just as the cartoons in Charlie Hebdo expressed the opinions of the cartoonists who worked there and were published in the name of freedom of expression, even though they were provocative and angered many people. The role of caricature, or of any other visual message, is to arouse thought and debate.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The attack on the kosher market had nothing to do with freedom of the press and seems to have been subsumed by all the noise about the cartoons for some strange reason.
Israeli
(4,151 posts)I guess you missed all these giant pencils and ' Je suis Charlie ' slogans at yesterdays demonstration in France then ?
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)the families and loved ones murdered in France, and everywhere by fanatics, but there seems to be several opportunists with blinders on: only willing to turn this into a religious-only event.
I wish they would stop with the nonsense and opportunist bullshit.
Peace.
shira
(30,109 posts)....of Charlie Hebdo's cartoons.
So it's not really about freedom of press.