Jerusalem – Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich on Sunday called on Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to open an immediate investigation into the posting on Facebook earlier in the day of a number of Israeli politicians in SS uniforms.
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“This crosses a red line and I view this with great severity. We all remember where this type of incitement has led us in the past and we must work quickly to find those responsible and bring them to justice.”
He added that incitement on the internet must not be tolerated.
Aharonovich’s statement came hours after an unknown person uploaded to Facebook a series of photos of Israeli politicians in SS uniforms, to protest their opposition to the “Jewish state law”.
The pictures show President Reuven Rivlin, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Israel Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino and others in the Nazi uniforms.
The user, who opened the Facebook account on Sunday, goes by the name “Natan Zoabi”. In a caption for the pictures he wrote “these are the anti-Semites who are against a Jewish state in the land of Israel!”
Such pictures have a very negative connotation in Israel, and bring back memories of the weeks and months before the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, when opponents of Rabin’s circulated fliers of him in SS uniform or wearing a kaffiyeh.
No reason to get angry about things you cannot control. Every kid everywhere has photoshop nowadays.
We all know which Jewish group uses this disgusting method in their protests.
How is this illegal?
Today is not Purim!! This get up is a disgrace to the k’doshim who died!! What kind of man is this??
I don’t understand why in the first place did Lapid and Livni got dressed up like that. But the uniform does suit them well.