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IDF soldiers have requested that Mohammed Bakri be charged according to clause 6 of the Libel Law, which sets a punishment of up to one year in prison for deliberate libel.
ed note–remember as you read this–
“When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their altars, break down their images, cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire. For you are a holy people unto the LORD thy God and He has chosen you to be a special people above all others upon the face of the earth…”
–Book of Deuteronomy, 7:1-8
They are not thinking of charging Bakri with libel but rather with ‘blasphemy’, although they cannot say this. In the Jewish mindset, ‘God’ not only gave them permission, but rather COMMANDED them to slay ‘the other’, and for anyone to allege that ‘good Jews’ doing their moral duty in killing innocent Palestinians are negaging in war crimes is to question the command of God himself.
Until the world comes to realize that the ‘moral precepts’ handed down in this mental illness known as Judaism as revealed in both the Torah and the Talmud are the cause of all this sick behavior, there will never be peace.
The attorney general will soon decide whether to file charges against Mohammed Bakri, director of the controversial film “Jenin, Jenin,” which implies that Israel Defense Forces soldiers committed war crimes in a 2002 military operation in the Palestinian refugee camp.
Yehuda Weinstein called a meeting to discuss the possibility of charging Bakri and whoever assisted him in showing the film in public, with the participation of the state prosecutor, Moshe Lador, the military advocate general, Danny Efroni, the deputy attorney general, Ran Nizri, and two representatives of soldiers who fought in Jenin, as well as the attorney who conducted their failed libel case against Bakri.
The soldiers requested that Bakri be charged according to clause 6 of the Libel Law, which sets a punishment of up to one year in prison for deliberate libel. They pointed out that the Supreme Court’s rejection of their libel suit against Bakri might be used by him as a “license” to continue screening the film, and urged Weinstein to use legal means to avoid screening. Another option the soldiers raised was to use the clause in the case of future screenings.
The State Prosecutor’s Office has traditionally refrained from using this clause of the Libel Law, because of its possible repercussions vis-a-vis issues such as freedom of speech. The former attorney general, Menachem Mazuz, opposed using the clause against Bakri, despite being utterly opposed to the way the IDF was portrayed in Bakri’s film. At the meeting the position of the State Prosecutor Office was that use of criminal law to prevent screening the film might lead to scathing criticism of Israel abroad, as well as reawakening interest in the 2003 film. Furthermore, such a use of the criminal law could, instead of discouraging him from screening the film, actually have the opposite effect on Bakri.
The libel suit was filed by a group of soldiers who fought in Jenin in “Operation Defensive Shield,” although none of them was specifically mentioned in the film. In 2008 the Petah Tikva District Court ruled that Bakri had indeed slandered Israeli soldiers, but the plaintiffs were not personally slandered and thus had no basis for a suit. The Supreme Court upheld the decision in July 2011.
David Tzengen, who served as a doctor at the time of the fighting in Jenin, is currently promoting an amendment to the Libel Law that would fine whoever libels IDF soldiers or the state, with the aim of delegitimizing Israel.
Bakri, who is also a renowned actor, is currently starring in a production of Frederico Garia Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba.”
Culture Minister Limor Livnat recently joined the right-wing Im Tirtzu organization in calling on theater to ban Bakri from stages in Israel.
