Ben Gvir's new directive to police: Remove PLO flags and disperse incidents of incitement

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Sunday instructed Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai to order the police to remove any Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) flags from public places and to stop any incitement against the State of Israel.

The Minister delivered to the Office of the Commissioner of Police an order which said that every police officer of any rank, during their shift, will be permitted to remove PLO flags.

Ben Gvir passed the order to the Commissioner based on the fact that flying the PLO flag is considered support for a terrorist organization.

"It is inconceivable that lawbreakers wave terrorist flags, incite and encourage terrorism, and therefore I ordered the removal of the flags of support for terrorism from the public space and the cessation of incitement against the State of Israel. Identifying with a terrorist and harming IDF soldiers is not covered under freedom of speech," said Ben Gvir.

Matan Peleg, chairman of the Im Tirtzu movement, said that this is "a very important day for governance, an important day for Zionism and the State of Israel." READ MORE