The protests against Finance Minister Yair Lapid and against
the State Budget Bill which was passed Monday have gone viral: Tuesday morning
the country woke to find a picture of Lapid as Hitler, mustached and in Nazi
uniform. Under the image, which also included dollar signs, a caption read,
“Enemy of the Israeli economy.”
Members of Yesh Atid turned to the relevant Knesset
authorities, following the image’s publication, and Police Commissioner Yohanan
Danino ordered the head of investigations to look into the incident.
Party MKs expressed shock at the picture, labeling it
incitement: "It seems we have not learned anything. We must stop this
craziness before disaster occurs."
Condemnations of the image came Tuesday from all sides of
the political spectrum. Within the opposition, calls continued scrutiny of
Lapid in matters of economic measures, while at the same time, distancing
themselves from the image, saying it was going down a dangerous track.
Also on Tuesday, police were investigating the appearance of
a swastika painted on a building in Bat Yam with the tag, “Peres shame on you.”
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