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Minister ‘likes’ post accusing overhaul activist of complicity in Hamas massacres
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Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli has liked a post on X claiming that anti-judicial overhaul activist Shikma Bressler contributed to the October 7 Hamas onslaught, which left over 1,400 people dead in southern Israel.
Bressler wrote on Twitter yesterday that there is virtually no one in Israel who trusts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that the leadership vacuum in Israel poses a danger to the state.
Chikli’s X account put a “like” on a post by Tamir Morag, a reporter for the right-wing Channel 14 news channel, who posted a screenshot of Bressler’s tweet with the comment, “No matter what you do, say or scream: you will forever live with the mark of Cain for your contribution to the terrible massacre in the Gaza Strip.”
Addressing Bressler, Morag wrote, “We warned in real time that you and your friends would bring war on the people of Israel,” but that the anti-overhaul activists refused to listen, suggesting that Hamas felt emboldened to launch such a wide-range attack due to Israeli infighting. Opponents of the overhaul vociferously blame Netanyahu for causing the societal ruptures, blasting the government for pushing such controversial fundamental reforms when they lacked widespread public support.
Chikli also likes another post that criticizes Bressler’s response to the Hamas onslaught.
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