Police recommend charging Islamic leader for incitement

Police are recommending charging Islamist leader Raed Salah with incitement to violence and supporting an illegal organization.

Police said Salah, who was the head of the banned Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, was investigated for several comments he made in the media and on social media that are allegedly “incitement to violence and terror and support of, or membership in, an illegal movement.”

Salah served a 9-month jail term last year for incitement to violence and racism over an inflammatory sermon he delivered in 2007 in Jerusalem. He has previously served terms for similar offenses.

Police say they have passed their findings to the prosecutor’s office.