However, such a claim is irrelevant and actually harms the activists themselves. In response to these comments, human rights activists insinuated that the group Ad Kan could be funded by the prime minister’s confidant, American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.
… Anyone who encourages murder cannot keep hiding behind that mask of hypocrisy called ‘ concern for human rights.’” On his Facebook page, he wrote, “The report revealed the true face of the extremists among us, whose hatred of the settlement enterprise has literally driven them insane. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also quick to respond to the report. Michael Sfard, a prominent civil rights attorney, argued on his Facebook page, for example, “The report, its editing and the accompanying text led the public to believe that everyone acts this way … and it is difficult not to see the connection to the campaigns of the last two weeks by Ayelet Shaked, Im Tirtzu, Bennett and the prime minister against these organizations.” The third and most important claim was that the report completely ignored years of important work by human rights organizations in Israel and gave the false impression that left-wing groups employ unscrupulous methods. The second was that the Palestinian Authority hasn’t executed anyone since 2006, so Nawi was just bragging - and so his words should not be taken seriously. The first was that the program’s editorial board relied on footage from a right-wing organization that no one had heard of before the report aired. The piece at the center of the storm showed Nawi with a huge grin on his face, boasting that a Palestinian land dealer was handed over by him to the Palestinian security forces, and that he was effectively responsible for his death.Īctivists from left-wing groups offered three responses to the report. The authentic footage was shot with hidden cameras by ''planted'' activists from the previously unknown right-wing Ad Kan group, which according to its members was founded to disclose the tactics employed by left-wing groups in Israel. The two were documented plotting to hand Palestinian land dealers over to the Palestinian Preventive Security Forces for planning to sell land to settlers. The report focused on two left-wing activists, Ezra Nawi from Ta'ayush and Nasser Nawaja, a researcher for B’Tselem. 8, told the story of right-wing activists operating undercover in left-wing organizations. The investigative report by Sokolov Prize-winning journalist Omri Assanheim, aired on Channel 2’s weekly news show "Uvda" Jan.
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