Emma Graham-Harrison
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Podcast Appearances
So it opens with an activist who's shouting free, free Palestine, being sort of forced down by Israeli security forces.
Then it's a sort of series of clips.
We see dozens of activists who are kneeling with their hands bound behind their back with zip ties and their foreheads to the floor in rows.
There's so many of them that they're laid out in rows.
Ben-Gavir is walking past them.
He's smiling.
At one point, he waves the Israeli flag and says something like, we are the owners, sort of referring to the land.
And he sort of mocks them.
He says, you came here as heroes.
Look at you now as they're there being humiliated on camera.
So it continues in that vein.
And then at the end, there's footage of Ben-Gavir shouting very sort of into the face of another man who has his hands bound.
He's not bent over.
He's sitting up.
But he's
shouts at him, Am Yisrael Chai, which means the people of Israel live.
So, you know, you rightly said he's sort of doing it to appeal to his own base.
And I think that's one of the things that's shocking.
The video is shocking in and of itself, but it's also what it says about the Israeli political spectrum at the moment that, you know, a prominent politician is releasing something that's provoked pretty universal outrage among countries who number some of Israel's very staunch allies.
In Europe, we had Germany.