earth, The site prohibited the deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, and requested that he remove the comment he had made on X in November.
Nissim Vaturi did not apologize; instead, he complied with their requests, and his account has now been reactivated. In response to Hamas’s fatal attack on Israel on October 7, the Israeli military is conducting airstrikes and ground operations in Gaza. His comment is just one of several divisive statements made by prominent Israelis.
He had posted: “Now we all have one common goal – erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the Earth” on the day of the assaults.
That post was made on X and is still visible.
.The complaint, according to Israel, is “wholly unfounded” and rests on “biased and false claims..”.
Israel must stop making public remarks that encourage genocide, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared in an interim ruling in January. While the court lacks the authority to compel compliance, Israel consented to provide a report outlining the steps it has taken to look into and prosecute any cases of incitement.
