“I don’t sleep well unless I see houses collapsing in Gaza. What am I going to do? More, more, more houses, more towers, they shouldn’t have anywhere to return to.”
This is what Shimon Riklin, a host on Israel’s Channel 14, said live on air in December 2023.
It’s just one of countless genocidal and racist statements uttered on the popular Israeli television channel over the past 19 months – rhetoric so prevalent that a coalition of Israeli groups had asked the attorney general to investigate the network for inciting war crimes and genocide and to prevent the channel, as much as it still can, from becoming a “modern Israeli version” of the infamous Rwandan genocide-inciting RTLM radio station.
With no action taken and the rhetoric continuing, the coalition – which includes Zulat for Equality and Human Rights, the Democratic Bloc, and the Association for Fair Regulation – last month escalated their complaint to Israel’s highest court.
“A media channel that is in every home in Israel, watched by soldiers and officers operating in the name of the State of Israel in Gaza, has become a machine for inciting war crimes, violence, and racism,” the complaint filed to Israel’s Supreme Court on May 8, 2025, reads. …..more
