The Labor party says it has filed a police complaint against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for comments about “punching back” against opposition voices.
“We filed a police report this evening requesting an investigation for incitement,” tweets Labor leader Merav Michaeli, citing comments by Netanyahu about using a “fist to strike them.”
Netanyahu said earlier this evening that his comments were clearly a metaphor about fighting back against lies.
“Netanyahu is once again inciting, once again inspiring violence,” Michaeli adds. “The last time that we ignored his incitement — it ended in murder,” she says, a reference to the 1995 assassination of Labor prime minister Yitzhak Rabin while Netanyahu was opposition leader. “This time we won’t let that happen.”
On Friday, the Likud party filed a police complaint against former Labor prime minister Ehud Barak after he called for civil disobedience in response to the judicial overhaul plan.
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