The head of social media monitoring firm Vigo says the last 24 hours have seen some 8,000 posts and messages online threatening violence over the Elor Azaria conviction.
Raviv Tal tells Channel 2 that some 4,500 of the posts are directed against against military tribunal judge Maya Heller and another 2,500 against IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot.
He adds that some 77 percent of posts on social media on the topic support Azaria, convicted of manslaughter after killing a wounded Palestinian attacker in March.
The word “pardon” appears in a little over half the posts that appeared over the past day.
In the last year, Tal says, there were some 400,000 “violent” posts related to the case.
Earlier, two people were arrested and later released to house arrest for posting threatening messages against Heller.
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