Israeli security minister stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That guy’s a giant piece of shit…

  Even for Israel’s current government

  Ben-Gvir is a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank whose “political background lies in Kahanism—a violently racist movement that supports the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands”.[2] He has a long history of anti-Arab activism, leading to dozens of indictments and at least eight convictions of crimes including incitement to racism and support for, as well as possession of propaganda of, a terrorist organization (the now-illegal Kach political party).[3] As a lawyer, he is known for defending Jews accused of Jewish extremist terrorism in Israeli courts.[4]

  Ben-Gvir is known for being a provocateur and has attracted headlines for a variety of reasons: threatening Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on live television in 1995 shortly before his assassination; having had a portrait in his living room of Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish terrorist and mass murderer; calling in 2019 for the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel who are not loyal to the state;[5] inciting violent clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in 2021; and making highly controversial visits to the Temple Mount, where the al-Aqsa Mosque is located, in 2023 and 2024.[6]

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

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