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Protesters in front of the Kishon Detention Facility calling for the release of anti-government activist Yolanda Yavor on Saturday. Credit: Yair Gil
Protesters in front of the Kishon Detention Facility calling for the release of anti-government activist Yolanda Yavor on Saturday. Credit: Yair Gil
Dozens protested in front of the Kishon Detention Facility in northern Israel on Saturday calling for the release of anti-government activist Yolanda Yavor. “If we were to bow down to the terror instilled by Israel’s Police, the one who leads it [National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir] and Israel’s government, that means we have lost the country. Therefore, we are here to support Yolanda, who has been arrested for political reasons in an attempt to silence the legitimate protest movement.”
Yavor, an academic and fixture at protests outside Netanyahu’s private residence, was detained by the police on Friday over alleged incitement in a social media post against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a Facebook post earlier this week, she urged to “fight the traitor.”
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Yolanda Yavor at the Acre Magistrate Court in September. Credit: Yair Gil
Yolanda Yavor at the Acre Magistrate Court in September.Credit: Yair Gil
“The only choice we have,” she wrote in the post on Tuesday, “is to be, that is, to fight the traitor, the mouthpieces, the damned collaborators and his schmatte Freikorps with all our might and by all means, or to cease,” she said, using a Yiddish word for rag to describe proto-Nazi European militias.
“Choose correctly, my brothers and sisters,” she added. “There will be no second round. We said democracy or rebellion, remember? So, come on, rebellion. But a real one, imported from Romania, not from the corner of Ali Express and Kaplan,” likely referring to the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.