The protest leader who rose up in Breslar responds to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s defamation lawsuit against her and sues him herself, claiming “intentional harm to her image and struggle.”
Protest leader Prof. Shikma Bresler filed a defense and counterclaim with the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court today (Thursday) as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against her by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Bresler claims, through her lawyer Idan Seger, that the lawsuit filed against her by the prime minister – for sharing content regarding Netanyahu’s ties with Qatar that was previously published to millions of people in prominent media outlets – is “a clear example of a baseless silencing lawsuit that must be dismissed out of hand.” She claims that “the purpose of the lawsuit is to intimidate Israeli citizens from speaking out on an issue whose public importance cannot be overstated.”
In addition, Bresler claims that her publications are protected under the protections of the Defamation Law, including the protection of truth in advertising.
Bresler takes advantage of the defense brief to hurl a series of conspiratorial questions at the prime minister, including: “Why did he insist on transferring tens of millions of dollars in cash from Qatar every month to finance the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip? Why did he work to close down the Mossad’s Zalzal unit, which is responsible for the economic fight against terrorism? Are these puzzling decisions related to documents according to which he himself received funds from the Qatari authorities, or is it “just” serious negligence that led to the October 7 massacre? Did he know that his closest advisors work for the terrorist financier Qatar? Why does he continue to charge them, even after they admitted to this during their interrogation? What is the source of the money of his family members, which, among other things, were used by his wife to finance her stay at a Qatari-owned hotel and by his son to purchase an apartment in Britain under a different name?” And so on and so forth.
At the same time, Bressler filed a counterclaim against Netanyahu for NIS 335,000, after he published, among other things, that she and other protest leaders called for bloodshed and the assassination of the prime minister – “a false claim, 180 degrees contrary to her calls for non-violent protest,” she said. The counterclaim also alleged that Netanyahu “spread a false story that Bressler’s husband leaked confidential information to her regarding his schedules.” Bressler claims that Netanyahu acted deliberately to “damage her public image and even her family’s livelihood, all with the aim of harming the public struggle in which she is involved to end his rule.”
