Netanyahu unveils bills targeting those who ‘slander’ IDF soldiers
Netanyahu announces bills to revoke citizenship from those who slander IDF soldiers and increase potential defamation damages twentyfold following NAZA controversy.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized ongoing propaganda targeting Israel and its IDF during the cornerstone-laying ceremony for a memorial dedicated to Arabic-speaking Christian soldiers on Wednesday. He denounced the portrayal of Israel and its soldiers as perpetrators of war crimes and persecutors of minorities, asserting that Israel is an island of tolerance in the region where the Christian community thrives.
Netanyahu emphasized that the country is the only place in the Middle East where Christians find a home, contrasting it with the persecution, emigration, and slaughter faced by Christians elsewhere. He warned that as lies about Israel proliferate, they become increasingly accepted as truth, and thus, he came to shatter that falsehood through the memorial ceremony and the shared commitment to protect Christians.
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