Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett posted a screenshot Sunday of an instance of incitement against Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.
The screenshot shows a post by a Twitter user who uploaded a Hitler-mustached photo of Justice Minister, in protest of the Transparency Bill, which would require representatives of NGOs funded mostly by foreign governments to make that fact public in advertisements, reports and Knesset activity.
"Keep inciting," he wrote. "We will continue to work.
"P.S. – you will not deter us from passing the law against NGOs that harm IDF soldiers."
Right and Left in Israel are always accusing each other of incitement, but this becomes even more marked in November, because of the memorial day for the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. The Left blames right-wing incitement for the murder, while the Right says that the assassin acted alone, and that this accusation in itself constitute incitement against the entire nationalist camp.
Shaked is proposing a number of requirements, as follows:
- NGOs whose main funding stems from foreign sources must publicize that fact in advertisements and public reports;
- every request the NGO makes of a public official must be made in writing, and foreign funding must be noted in that written request or address;
- all written disclaimers regarding foreign funding must name the countries and/organizations in question contributing to said NGO;
- lobbyists - or representatives of NGOs operating the Knesset and elsewhere - will be required to wear ID tags at all times naming which organizations they represent; and
- the fine for breaching any one of these requirements will be 29,200 shekels ($7555).