A top settler leader assails IDF Spokesperson Ran Kochav, after reports of a few members of the IDF Spokesperson Unit voicing left-wing positions on social media.
Tzahi Daboush, a media advisor for Likud MK Nir Barkat, posted photos this morning from posts made by three soldiers in the unit in which they spoke out against “the occupation” and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
The unit has said the soldiers involved will be disciplined.
“Ran Kochav has turned the IDF Spokesperson Unit into a far-left party,” Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council says.
“A situation where soldiers [in the unit] feel comfortable publicly writing opinions in line with the far left proves that this is the atmosphere at the IDF Spokesperson Unit,” he claims.
Ran Kochav speaks during a ceremony at the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit’s headquarters in northern Tel Aviv on June 6, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)
In response, IDF chief of staff Aviv Kohavi warns in a statement against “an ugly campaign that must stop immediately.”
He says the military “is an apolitical army of the people, operating… without bias or a political agenda.”
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