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Thursday, November 13, 2025
Journalist who aired leaked Sde Teiman video hounded by right-wing activists in Tel Aviv
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Right-wing activists attacked Channel 12 correspondent Guy Peleg after a speaking gig in Tel Aviv last night and he required a police escort to return to his car safely, his media outlet says.
Peleg, Channel 12’s legal correspondent, has been hounded by right-wing protesters for the past two weeks over his airing of a leaked video depicting the alleged abuse of a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teiman last year, after receiving the footage from a source in the Military Advocate General Corps.
The footage, and Peleg’s role in publicizing it, has been in the headlines recently after former military advocate general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted that she had been the one to authorize the leak.
Last night, after Peleg delivered a lecture in Tel Aviv, a group of right-wing activists began following him, taunting him and trying to block him from reaching his car.
Several police officers arrived to escort the journalist safely out of the building.
“Why did you publish footage of IDF soldiers?” one activist, identified as Mordechai David, demands of Peleg in footage of the confrontation.
“Guy Peleg, you will need a police escort wherever you go in the world,” David vows, following after Peleg even as he is escorted down the hallway by police officers.
“It won’t help you, you will be blocked!” says the right-wing activist, who is recording himself on his phone as he speaks. “You will be blocked!”
Following last night’s incident, a large banner was displayed at the entrance to Bnei Brak featuring a doctored image of Peleg behind bars and the demand: “Guy Peleg to prison!”
האיומים נגד גיא פלג הם בלתי נסבלים. כל מי שחושב שמדובר רק בפלג- טועה. זה איום על התקשרות החופשית כולה.
הערוצים המרכזיים ואתרי האינטרנט צריכים להחשיך מסכים ולמחות נגד ההתפתחות המסוכנת הזאת, אחרת כשיבואו לקחת אותם כבר לא יישאר אף אחד. pic.twitter.com/qSYX2N9izQ— Ksenia Svetlova كسنيا سفطلوفا (@KseniaSvetlova) November 13, 2025
Commenting on the incident in an interview with 103FM today, Peleg says he isn’t worried by David, whom he calls a “criminal,” but rather his ties with senior members of the government.
David, who frequently films himself provoking anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv, has appeared in videos alongside Justice Minister Yariv Levin and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
Last week, Haaretz reported that independent journalist Or-ly Barlev had successfully filed for a restraining order against David after he had harassed her at a hearing during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial.
In a statement condemning the harassment of its correspondent, Channel 12 says that it “is disgusted by the violence and threats that legal correspondent Guy Peleg has been subjected to in recent weeks, which has seriously escalated in recent days.”
“The violence against Guy Peleg, one of Israel’s most senior journalists, has crossed a red line and is a red and worrying warning sign,” it adds.
The outlet reiterates its support for Peleg and his work, and says the violence will not stop him or any other Channel 12 journalists “from continuing their work fearlessly and without bias.”
The Times of Israel Community.