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petition re channel 14 crimes against humanuty

Zulat, in collaboration with the Democratic Bloc and the Movement for Fair Regulation, has filed a petition with the High Court of Justice, through attorney Michael Sfard, seeking an conditional injunction (order nisi) against the Attorney General, State Attorney, and Israel Police. The petition demands that these authorities explain why they have not opened a criminal investigation into Channel 14 for repeated statements by the channel, its anchors, and panellists calling for genocide and crimes against humanity.

The petition argues that “Channel 14 has effectively become a platform for incitement to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide. This represents a deliberate editorial policy adopted and promoted by the channel. These circumstances necessitate the opening of a criminal investigation and a thorough examination of the allegations.”

The petition documents numerous inflammatory statements broadcast on the channel:

  • “Now there really needs to be total destruction. We shouldn’t be afraid of words like ‘humanitarian disaster'” – Itamar Fleishman
  • “We need to bomb indiscriminately. We distinguish [between targets], and that’s not good. The Air Force should not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants” – Yaakov Bardugo
  • “Gaza is Amalek and we must destroy the Amalekites. It’s a commandment to destroy Gaza because there’s evil there. Expel the people” – Shimon Riklin

According to the petition, such statements were broadcast almost daily on the channel’s programs, systematically exposing even random viewers to incitement to violence, racism, and genocide. The petitioners argue that the authorities’ failure to investigate these broadcasts constitutes a dereliction of their legal duty to prevent and prosecute incitement to such serious crimes.

The petition represents a significant legal challenge to both Channel 14’s editorial practices and the enforcement authorities’ apparent reluctance to address what the petitioners characterize as systematic incitement to serious crimes under both Israeli and international law.

The High Court has ordered the police to report within 21 days on the status of the investigation and what actions have been taken thus far.

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Dr. Maha Sabbah Karkabi

 

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel Aviv University (2015), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London (2015-2016), a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University (2016-2017), and a postdoctoral fellowship Ph.D. at the Humphrey Institute for Social Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2018-2020).
Dr. Maha Karbahi’s areas of interest focus on the connection between social change, family behavior, and gender inequality in societies in the process of change and specifically in Palestinian Arab society in Israel. Her research draws attention to the study of family life and employment, using a combined “ethnic lens” and “gender lens” and paying attention to the perspective of Palestinian Arab women, a group characterized by intersections between multiple marginal locations, which over the years has remained hidden from the research eye. Dr. Karkabi-Sabah’s research is published in professional journals and chapters in scientific books that are considered pioneers in family research, work, and gender equality.

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Prof. Frances Raday

Professor Emeritus in the Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and serves as a full professor in the College of Management’s academic track, where she also serves as chair of the graduate program and as honorary president of the Concord Center for International Law Absorption. Radai was a member of a working group of the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination against women. In addition, she is a prominent and feminist human rights activist.

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Dr. Rawia Aburabia 

Faculty member of Sapir Academic College’s School of Law, received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research deals with the interface between law, gender, minorities, and human rights. Has published in leading journals on the subject of the matrimonial laws pertaining to Muslim women in Israel. Her book Under the Law, Outside Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizenship, and Colonialism in Israeli Law is expected to be published as part of the Gender Series of Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House.

Dr. Aburabia has extensive experience in international human rights and public law. She has worked as a jurist for the Association for Civil Right and has been invited as a specialist to address such international forums as the United Nations and the European Parliament on the subject of indigenous communities and minority rights. She has interned with Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, and has been a member of the executive board of Amnesty International. In 2018, she was selected by the magazine Globes as one of the 40 most promising young persons in Israel under the age of 40.

 

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Ron Kessler

With over two decades of experience in the field of digital content, Ron has participated in numerous political and social campaigns. He helped run the digital activity of senior public officials, and worked in various NGOs. Ron is a fundamentally optimistic man, who believes that Israel can be changed and so can people. Lives in Tel Aviv.