The Supreme Court today (Monday) hears the appeal of Muhammad Bakri, the creator of the propaganda film "Jenin Jenin" about the ruling of the Lod District Court in January 2021.
In the same ruling, Judge Hila Silesh ruled that the film was libelous.
The judge ordered Bakri to pay Lt. Col. Nissim Magenji, who fought in the operation, NIS 175,000 in compensation in addition to NIS 50,000 in legal fees. It was also decided at the time that all existing copies of the film in Israel should be confiscated.
The court ruled that the film, which was presented as a documentary, did not really stick, showed horrific incidents of war crimes attributed to IDF soldiers and was even dedicated to the memory of a terrorist from the Al-Aqsa Brigades who was falsely portrayed as the film's producer.
Against the background of the decisive debate, Justice Minister Gideon Saar sided with IDF fighters and bereaved families from the difficult battle in Jenin at the Defensive Shield 20 years ago. The minister addressed the issue and wrote: Nin Jenin '".
Stood by the warriors.
Saar, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Minister Saar added that "in the difficult battle that took place in Jenin during Operation Defensive Shield, IDF soldiers acted in an unparalleled moral manner among the armies of the world.
"The conduct of the IDF soldiers in this operation, their fighting, and their sacrifice for the security of the State of Israel - deserve all praise. Therefore, I support your position that the distribution and screening of the film in Israel should be prohibited, as also determined by the Central District Court."
Advocate Israel Caspi said: "The battle fighters in Jenin and the bereaved families who have been working for 20 years to clear their names and especially the names of 23 IDF casualties in the battle do not think of any other option than a complete and complete alignment of the district verdict given on By Judge Halit Silesh 19 years late. IDF fighters and bereaved families will in no way complete a return to a state where the state that sent them into battle will allow their blood, allow fatal damage to their good name and allow Israel's enemies, the terrorists who made the film and Muhammad Bakri to join them. , To put him as a Trojan horse in the guise of creating a permit to broadcast it in Israel.
"The fighters will not accept the situation where the state will allow their blood."
Operation Defensive Shield (Archive), Photo: Reuters
Today, senior officials from the state will come to express support for the ruling that is given and make every effort to prevent its change.
Among other things, there will be a senior attorney from the State Attorney's Office and the State Attorney, the head of the IDF Personnel Division, Major General Yaniv Asor, who himself fought in Jenin with us as a battalion commander of the 51st Golani Battalion, Col. Uri Sagi - Head of Advisory "Legislation in the military prosecutor's office to assist the prosecutor in all material and information that the army has, Minister of Culture Hili Trooper and possibly also Minister of Intelligence Elazar Stern in order to give further validity to the fact that the state considers the ruling to be of paramount importance."
The representative of the combat fighters and the bereaved families from Operation Defensive Shield fears that the Supreme Court will reverse the district's decision and allow the film to be screened: " There are fears that the Supreme Court will reverse the decision and allow the screening of the film depicting IDF soldiers as murderers and Nazis - something we can not come to terms with, after the state sent us into battle on Order 8, on Passover 2002, in which 130 civilians were killed in terrorist attacks. "And its security against the terrorists, members of the terrorist organizations. The film was made by the same terrorists who are members of the terrorist organizations who fought against us, and Bakri joined them and helped as an Israeli citizen and under the guise of an artist, to infiltrate a film of our enemies into the State of Israel."
Who will win the controversy?
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It was also stated that "it is not possible for the State of Israel, the justice system, and society in Israel, to show us such terrible goodness, and leave our blood and good name, and continue to slander us who acted as war criminals and murderers." Knowing that the State of Israel will back them up in the face of false plots by our enemies against whom they fought, preserve their good name, and not allow legal excuses for our enemies to describe them as horrible criminals who committed horrific murders. This is a crucial hearing - The Supreme Court as the leaders of the State of Israel. "
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