The State Prosecution has dropped charges of \"incitement to violence\" against Avigdor Eskin. He had been convicted of performing a Pulsa D\'Nura Kabbalistic ceremony against the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and of distributing bumper stickers reading, \"He will redeem [Yigal, in Hebrew] us.\" He served the four-month sentence in 1997, but the conviction has now been dropped in light of last November\'s Supreme Court ruling that \"support for a terrorist organization\" applies only if a specific terrorist organization is mentioned. Eskin placed a \"curse\" on Rabin approximately four weeks before the Prime Minister was assassinated.

The November ruling acquitted journalist Mohammed Jabarin of incitement to violence for writing, \"Whenever I [cheered] and threw a rock, I felt that the victory was calling to us, \'Keep on throwing!\'… Whenever I threw a firebomb, I felt that I was enveloped in glory and splendor…\" The same day, the Court found Binyamin Ze\'ev Kahane - who was murdered in a terrorist attack, together with his wife Talya, five weeks later - guilty of \"incitement to rebellion\" for distributing flyers during the 1992 election campaign calling on the IDF to bomb the Israeli-Arab town of Um el-Fahm.

Eskin, originally from the Soviet Union, is serving a 30-month sentence for conspiring to throw a pig\'s carcass on the grave of an Arab terrorist, and for incitement to torch a Dor Shalom movement office. He was disciplined last week by the Prison Service for broadcasting from jail to a radio station called \"Radio Kahane.\" His supporters claim that he is being unjustly singled out for punishment because of his political views.