Bill to Criminalize Documenting Soldiers Clears 1st Knesset Hurdle
Legislation criminalizing the visual documenting of Israeli soldiers engaged in repression in the occupied Palestinian territories cleared its first hurdle in the Knesset on Wednesday, June 20. The bill, which passed its first reading by a vote of 45-42, would outlaw the recording of “soldiers carrying out their duties with the aim of demoralizing them…