Israeli Bill Calls for Prison Sentence for Those Who Question Netanyahu's Narrative of Hamas Attack

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist Knesset passed a preliminary reading of a bill that would ban anyone in the country from questioning the 7 October Hamas attack, downplaying “its dimensions,” or sympathizing with Hamas.

Those convicted would face five years in prison.

“The denial of the massacre constitutes an attempt to rewrite history already at this stage, in an attempt to hide, minimize and facilitate the crimes committed against the Jewish people and the State of Israel,” the bill’s explanatory notes said, according to The Times of Israel.

The paper said that the bill needs to pass through “committee and three additional readings in the plenum.”

Trends Journal readers know that Netanyahu’s political career was on the ropes before the attack, and there were early questions about how Israel’s intelligence could have possibly missed the planning stage of the large-scale attack.

The attack has also shed light on the living conditions that Palestinians continue to face living under Israel’s most extremist government in recent history.