A protest movement has grown in recent weeks in Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently on trial for bribery and corruption charges. Thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets and called for Netanyahu’s resignation because of those charges, his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the resulting economic crisis, and his supposed efforts to manipulate the government to protect him from the corruption prosecution. Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s son Yair was slapped with a restraining order by The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court for illegally publishing the names and addresses of leaders of the protest movement and calling for them to be trolled, potentially putting them and their families in danger. In response, Netanyahu has blamed the media for inciting the public, saying, “There has never been such a distorted mobilization—I wanted to say Soviet but it has already reached North Korean terms—of the media in favor of the protests.” What name has been applied to the anti-Netanyahu protest movement?
Jerusalem Demonstrations by Yaara Di Segni is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
A. The Crime Minister Protest Movement.
B. The Bye Bye Bibi Movement.
C. The Justice We Shall Pursue Against Bibi Movement.
D. The People of the Book, Not the People of the Crook Movement.
E. There’s Only One BB King and it Ain’t Netanyahu Movement.