Ben Gvir: Police must arrest protesters who block roads at rallies

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says that he supports public protests — up to a point.

“I’m in favor of protests, freedom of expression is allowed,” Ben Gvir says at an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting in the Knesset.

“But we also saw great harm to democracy, incitement against Minister Yariv Levin, blocking roads,” says Ben Gvir about the anti-government protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. “I’m in favor of protests, but anyone who blocks roads and who gets wild needs to be arrested.”

Ben Gvir adds that the “rules of a protest in Tel Aviv must be the same as the rules of a protest in Jerusalem — the rules for the left, the same as the rules for the right.”

The national security minister, who oversees the police, says these are the demands he will make over how the Israel Police must act at protests.

“Freedom of expression is not freedom of incitement,” he says.