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Ben-Gvir orders arrest of Palestinian teacher following TikTok dance video

October 8, 2024 at 6:00 pm

A Palestinian citizen of Israel who works as a teacher has been arrested under the orders of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for uploading a video of herself dancing on TikTok on 8 October 2024 [@itamarbengvir/X]

A Palestinian citizen of Israel who works as a teacher has been arrested under the orders of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for uploading a video of herself dancing on TikTok.

The lady, who has not been named, works in a school in Nazareth and posted a picture of herself dancing to a song called ‘Good Times‘ with the caption “On this day 7/10/23.”

In a post on X, Ben-Gvir wrote: “I forwarded the video to the team for dealing with incitement in the network I set up at the Israel Police, and she was immediately arrested at her home in Tamra. Zero tolerance for incitement and supporters of terrorism!”


However activists have been quick to point out that the video is in keeping with the lady’s social media presence and none of her captions or videos glorified the Palestinian resistance’s infiltration of Palestinian towns and villages on 7 October 2023.

“She was arrested, her eyes were covered like they do to terrorists, she was photographed humiliatingly and then her detention was extended,” Co-Director of the Jewish-Arab Movement for Peace, Equality & Social Justice in Israel, Alon-Lee Green, wrote on X.

He also highlighted that on 7 October last year the teacher had posted that she lost a friend in Kibbutz Be’eri and said she regretted what happened on that day. Green slammed police for following the minister’s orders without investigating the teacher first, adding: “But in Israel, Palestinians can be humiliated, targeted, arrested and abused.”

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