Modeled after 1986 law banning Holocaust denial, legislation requires five-year prison term for denying the atrocities ‘with the intention of defending or identifying with Hamas’
A law criminalizing the denial, minimization or celebration of the Hamas terror group’s October 7 attack on southern Israel passed its third and final reading 16-0 in the Knesset plenum on Tuesday.
The legislation, sponsored by Yisrael Beytenu MK Oded Forer, is modeled after a 1986 law prohibiting Holocaust denial. “Anyone who says or writes things denying the October 7 massacre with the intention of defending the terrorist organization Hamas and its partners, expressing sympathy for them, or identifying with them, will be sentenced to five years in jail,” it states.
On October 7, 2023, thousands of Hamas-led terrorists burst across the border into Israel, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, while committing many acts of brutality and sexual assault.
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