Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has led prayers at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, sparking international condemnation.

Israel’s far-right national security minister led prayers on Sunday at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, drawing international condemnation and escalating tensions as Israel faces strong criticism over the war in Gaza.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Calling terrorist Ben-Gvir provocative is underselling it a bit. Having a kahanist as a minister AT ALL is beyond provocative but proof you’ve got a terrorist coalition.

    And I’m not calling him a terrorist out of hyperbole. Israel itself convicted him of being in a terrorist group and he explicitly was supportive of Rabin’s assassination for trying to reach a peace deal, as the article notes.

    “We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too,” he said, just weeks before Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist

    Even the framing of this recent action is dumb. If course he got away with it with no pushback. He’s the fucking minister of security and oversees the police.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

      Having defended the perpetrators of the 2015 Duma arson attack in which vigilante settlers firebombed the home of a family in a Palestinian village, resulting in the deaths of a 18 month baby and its parents,[58] it was controversial that Ben-Gvir, along with Bentzi Gopstein, were seen attending the wedding of a couple related to the perpetrators, which became known as the wedding of hate, in which the weddinggoers could be seen waving rifles, guns and firebombs and even stabbing a photograph of the Palestinian toddler who was killed.

      What a fucking piece of shit.

    • zero@fek.xyzOP
      15·
      1 day ago

      Ben-Gvir has been convicted eight times for offenses that include racism and supporting a terrorist organization. The army banned him from compulsory military service when he was a teen, deeming his views too extreme.

      But it’s ok to be Minister of National Security…