Rightists: Probe Big Brother contestant who wants Palestinians to 'rise up'
Contestant said 'occupation would be over' if the Palestinians would refuse to listen to IDF soldiers.
By Jonathan Lis Tags: Israel news IDFTwo right-wing public figures are calling for the criminal investigation of a contestant on the reality TV show "Big Brother" who said on the show that "the occupation would be over" if the Palestinians were to "rise up" and refuse to listen to Israeli soldiers performing security checks at roadblocks.
MK Michael Ben Ari (National Union) and Sholom Dov Wolpo, the Chabad rabbi who heads the right-wing Eretz Yisrael Shelanu, one of four factions that make up the National Union party, asked Deputy Attorney General Shai Nitzan on Monday to investigate "Big Brother" contestant Edna Kanti. They say she has publicly incited rebellion and advocated refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces.
On the show, Kanti described her volunteer work at Machsom Watch, which monitors the conduct of Israel Defense Forces soldiers manning roadblocks in the West Bank, by saying: "I go to the roadblocks and I see all the thousands of people going where they are told, showing their identity cards and lifting their shirts. If they were to say, 'Shove your laws up your ass, we don't want to show you identity cards and we aren't going away from the roadblocks,' and if 2 million [Palestinian] people were to rise up, put on white clothes and say, 'We are going where we want to go, this is our land,' the occupation would be over."
Ben Ari and Wolpo said in a letter to Nitzan that Kanti's comments were slanderous and illegal.
"These remarks are slanderous and contain violations of the law," they wrote. "Ms. Kanti is in effect calling upon the Arabs to revolt against the state of Israel, to disobey orders from Israel Defense Forces soldiers and even start a rebellion."
They quote Kanti as saying she would not follow "orders that seem to me retarded."
Ben Ari and Wolpo said Nitzan has called for the investigation of right-wing activists who have expressed more moderate opinions than the left-wing ones expressed by Kanti.
The Keshet channel, which broadcasts the show, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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in english: you go girl!!!!! in hebrew: Kol HaKavod!!!!
With big brothers like thisd who needs a family. Israel;is who call upon Arabs to inflict violence on Israelis do not have the right to live in Israel who suevives on the blood of those who defend her . Israeli TV looks more and more like PA TV. What a disgrace.
I was wondering..... seeing as she's of jewish decent is't she a semite as well, are'nt all these answers posted here actually antisemitic?
I do have an University degree, but I don't get this 'clever answer from a person who cannot even answer in his own name. I asked a genuine question (dilemma), not just a 'gimmick. Please explain yourself and your stupid "quotes.
I am aphalled to learn that this contestant speaks in such a way. Our soldiers should only be supported by fellow Israelis as they are the reason that we can sleep at night. I think that this contestant should move in with her beloved palestinians and leave us alone. Maybe if they would stop trying to blow us up we wouldn't have to check them at the roadblocks. She should leave this country that she obviously doesn't deserve to live in.
What is more important? 10% `free speech and knowing that by doing so you might kill your family, child, friend or loved one, 0% free speech and thereby saving them. HONEST ANSWER PLEASE, not just bla bla on paper!
What is more important? 100% 'free speech and knowing that by doing so you might kill your family, child, friend or loved one, or 80/70% free speech and thereby saving them. HONEST ANSWER PLEASE, not just bla bla on paper!
May be we should elect this girl our FM... Sarcosy will be elated.
themselves and rarely worry about the consequences of their actions. If she can find no wrong with the self-suffering pals, she is delusional and needs help- not a soap box. all walls would fall tomorrow if the arabs begin to accept Israel without conditions. They initiated wars, they lost and they keep shooting themselves in their feet hoping to wear israel down. Edna is a victim of misplaced sympathies which comes from low JewIQ and savior syndrome- which ends up killing the infected. Members of her fan club just suffer from anti-Jewishness and ignorance of facts and history.
The more stupid she looks. Let her say what she wants. I have faith in the rest of the big brother contestants to put her in her place.
when they've lived their lives in a constant state of oppression and subjugation...and the fear of the brutal repercussions that they KNOW will be forthcoming for their defiance.
Plus Israel is a democracy, with free speech, right?
Sbe isn't advocating violence. She's saying that just like Rosa Parks, the Palestinians should stop following illegal orders and tell the IDF they're fed up and aren't going to take it anymore.
Israel is going down the tubes fast, it's almost funny watching it shoot itself in the foot, swing too far right and you'll guarantee your demise..what she said would be totally ignored in a real democracy, if this moves forward that would be a bad sign for the future of the country.
Such incitement is very dangerous- Move her off the "Big Brother" show before further ado.
Just as well. Will make it short. Retarded is the right word. But heck, how DARE she open her mouth. Incarcerate, shoot, jail - we are a democracy.