PM accuses Shin Bet of ‘persecuting right-wing activists’ in post ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day

Amid his continued push to oust Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the domestic security agency of “persecuting right-wing activists.”

In a post on X right before the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu shares a recording of a conversation between the head of the Shin Bet’s Jewish Division and a senior police officer in the West Bank, during which the former discusses wanting to use a controversial practice to detain a suspect without charge.

The conversation ends with the police officer, Cdr. Avishai Muallem, telling the Shin Bet agent that “you have nothing on [the suspect].”

The recording comes several weeks after the release of an earlier tape of the Shin Bet official and Muallem — who is suspected of ignoring Jewish nationalist attacks to curry favor with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir — generated outcry over the agent’s description of radical settler youths as “shmucks,” leading him to suspend himself.