Screenshot of Prof. Zelnick-Abramovitz’s Facebook post
Sunday, March 16, 2025, 8:49 Six months ago, Professor Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, an activist from the organization “Looking the Occupation in the Eye,” posted a mendacious post on Facebook defaming a Jewish shepherd. The post included a photograph of the shepherd, who is a minor, and claimed that he had tried to set fire to Arabs. Two months later, Honenu Attorney Menashe Yado wrote letters to the State Attorney’s office and to the police on behalf of the minor’s family, demanding that Professor Zelnick-Abramovitz be investigated. As of now, the letters have not been answered. Recently, Honenu Attorney Chayim Bleicher filed an NIS 165,000 defamation suit against the activist on behalf of the minor.
In her post, Professor Zelnick-Abramovitz wrote, “This shepherd and his friends are more suitable to the film ‘A Clockwork Orange.’ A short time after these photographs were taken, as night fell, they broke into houses in the neighboring Palestinian village, poured gasoline with the goal of setting the residents on fire, and also tried to steal a flock of sheep. The arrival of human rights activists stopped the pogrom.” She attached the photographs to the post.
Honenu Attorney Chayim Bleicher: “Pioneer youth are maintaining a crucial Jewish presence in the Jordan Valley, with devotion and love of the Land of Israel. They are subject to vicious attacks and unrestrained slander from anarchist activists. This suit, and other suits that we have recently filed, set clear legal boundaries for anarchist activism. Our goal is to defend the fundamental rights of the pioneer youth.”
For reports of additional suits that Honenu has recently filed on behalf of claimants who were defamed by “Looking the Occupation in the Eye,” please click on the links below.
Jewish shepherd demands police prosecute activist for sexual harassment
Jewish minor sues left-wing activist for defamation
Two defamation suits against “Looking the Occupation in the Eye”