The northern District Attorney's Office on Wednesday filed the first indictment against a Jew for incitement on Facebook against Arabs with the Nazareth Magistrate's Court.
Over the last year, an increasing number of Israeli-Arabs have been indicted for incitement on Facebook against Jews, but Meir Borenstein, 26, of Nazareth is the first to be charged with racist incitement and incitement to violence on Facebook from the Jewish side of the spectrum.
The idea of indicting persons for incitement merely based on postings from Facebook took some time for acceptance by the legal establishment due to concerns that it might go too far in infringing on free speech and could turn into a politicized witch hunt.
However, the increase in violence over the last half year and the many attackers who have confessed that they were inspired to undertake attack by Facebook posts turned the tide.
Borenstein was indicted for posts in 2013 and 2014 in which he called on all Jews to "break everything of theirs, their cars, their I-phones, their teeth...let's start our own intifada" and calling for kidnapping Arabs.
By Yonah Jeremy Bob
