A video has been circulating on social media claiming to show Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right security minister and one of the architects of its genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, making a panicked retreat and pulling a gun on his own people, after reportedly being attacked by fellow settlers this week.
The claim is untrue.
The video dates from October 2022 and shows Ben-Gvir and his guards making a panicked retreat from Palestinian protesters in Sheikh Jarrah – and attempting to pull a gun. An Israeli extremist minister wanted to kill Palestinians, unsurprisingly – and a chilling foretaste of Ben-Gvir’s role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza:
The Israeli government is full of war criminals who should be on trial in the Hague, but it is important to keep the record straight.
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