An Ashdod resident has filed a lawsuit against Channel 10 Television, accusing the station of feeding the ongoing nationwide dispute and hate campaign against the chareidi tzibur, alleging the news service is not acting responsibly. The last installment of Channel 10’s coverage was under the headline “Is Beit Shemesh Coming to Ashdod?”
The suit addresses one incident, in which a local resident traveling on a bus from a chareidi area when she came under attack. The station aired remarks such as one gentleman who said, “I will take an Uzi and kill them” along with other derogatory statements. A resident of Ashdod has decided to do something in the hope of halting the incitement, which has already passed all acceptable red lines. This has prompted his lawsuit against Channel 10, which at the time of this report has declined comment.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Based on past practice, incitement against Hareidim is neither politically incorrect nor illegal. Only if the incitement is by religious or nationalists, is it considered to be politically incorrect by those who rule Eretz Yisrael, and therefore criminal.
One might suggest that in understanding Israeli law in these matters, American and British precedents are misleading, and one should look to such jurisdictions as Sodom, the Soviet Union, and Germany during the Third Reich – which shared a similar view of free speech (e.g. no one in the Germany ever got arrested for denouncing Orthodox Jews).
Maybe the fear of loosing a few $$$ will quite things down
Channel 10 is filing for chapter 11, they have no funds.
It’s about time that we came out and made it clear: Those who act wrongly get punished irrelevant of which “side” they belong to – and those who look like them should stop shielding them and stop being blamed for their actions.
TO Sabra – WHAT????
Brilliant. Because suing journalist ALWAYS works.