A post by an associate of Communications Minister Shlomo Karai was taken off the air following a threat from the broadcasting corporation with a libel lawsuit. In a post written by Likud activist, Mizrahan Edi Cohen, the latter called the corporation's "Machan" channel (in Arabic) "broadcasting as if it were an enemy of the state" Cohen's post was based on a program on the Makhan channel under what he called "Is the State of Israel an Apartheid State"