The Likud Party on Sunday filed a complaint with the police against former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, demanding that an investigation be opened against him for “his statements which constitute crimes of incitement, publications of sedition and damage to the rule of law and of society”.
The complaint follows remarks made by Barak at a demonstration against the judicial reform which was held on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, during which he said, “We must intensify the fight and resort to civil disobedience. I call on every citizen to prepare himself for this test of civil disobedience, and to respond to the call when it comes.”
The complaint against Barak states, “While Barak tried to mask the criminality of his statements with the phrases ‘non-violent’ and ‘civil disobedience’, these phrases do nothing to change the specific essence of an act which is a call to disobey the law, which is a call to violence and violation of the rule of law and social order in the country.”