FEBRUARY 1, 2024 21:42 Updated: FEBRUARY 1, 2024 21:44
Israeli anti-judicial reform protest leader Shikma Bressler announced that she has filed a NIS 2.6m. defamation suit against Likud MK Tally Gotliv as well as six additional online influencers for resharing Gotliv's false claims about Bressler.
Last week, Gotliv falsely claimed that Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, knew of Bressler having "communicated with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar before October 7."
Not only did Bressler quickly deny this, but so did Mossad, who said that the claim was a "recycled falsehood" and was "the second time MK Gotliv spread baseless lies."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the party to which Gotliv belongs, also denied these allegations.
In the claim letter, Bressler and her legal team revealed that they had turned to the head of the Investigations and Intelligence Division of Israel Police, demanding an investigation into Gotliv for a multitude of infractions, including "aiding the enemy in war, revealing confidential information in violation of the General Security Service Law, defeatist propaganda, abuse of official power, breach of trust, and defamation."
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