Leader and members of Joint List alliance, as well as president of Blue and White party, Benny Gantz, are under imminent threat and a “political assassination is definitely coming”, warned former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin.
Diskin told a radio station that the hatred has increased severely against the politicians who do not support the right, or who are affiliated with the movement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
He said the situation is more critical than it was prior to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 when far-right parties issued threats and incited violence against him.
Shin Bet must intervene immediately and provide security, and not rely on security from private companies, as is the case today, warned Diskin.
A large number of posts were published on social media against Gantz and the Joint List as well as the judiciary, the prosecution, and the police. The posts doubled during the Israeli elections.
On Tuesday, a video surfaced showing a large group of students of a pre-military school in Sderot, near Gaza Strip, clobbering a cardboard box bearing the images of Arab MK Ahmed al-Tibi.
Tibi filed an incitement compliant with the police linking the incident to comments against him made by Netanyahu during his election campaign.
“Since Netanyahu started inciting against me and since he erased [disregarded the Joint List’s] 15 seats, I have been receiving death threats and incitement,” he said.
Tibi also indicated that few days ago there were posts with offers to murder him, adding that the assassination of an “Arab or Jewish politician is imminent.”
