Left-wing Israeli activist acquitted of crime after calling IDF soldiers ’war criminals’ - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
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The Jerusalem District Court has acquitted a left-wing activist, overturning a conviction for calling an Israel Defense Forces commander and his soldiers “war criminals.”
During the 2009 incident, an IDF force led by Maj. Ido Morag asked activist Ezra Nawi to leave an area in Hebron declared a closed military zone, but Nawi refused.
In 2010, the police indicted Nawi on charges of insulting a public official and obstructing a public servant’s ability to perform his duty. Nawi was convicted of the first charge but acquitted of the second. Nawi later appealed, claiming he had used the term “in the heat of the moment.”