MK Betzalel Smotrich to Prof Asa Kasher: If you don't retract false post, we meet in court

• Author: Hezki Baruch
• Date: 01 March 2021
• Published date: 01 March 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Attached to the post is a photo that includes an article attributing to Smotrich support for the murder of the boy Abu Hadir and the Dwabsha family.

In a response post, Smotrich wrote: "Once upon a time, the title 'Professor' appearing before someone's name was a sign of honor, something that shows seriousness and wisdom, and invites one to take seriously the subject in the title. You and your peers on the crazy Left have lowered that title to near zero. Sometimes even below zero. Almost every time you open your mouth and express a position on a public issue, you insist on proving how much the title attached to you means nothing, maybe even saying the opposite."

"You're not just a professor. 'Professor of Ethics.' Yeah, right. It's hard to find greater ethical and moral decay than this post of yours, which is all a distorted presentation of my words, literally one hundred and eighty degrees from what I actually said. You attribute to me with typical arrogance racism, 'approaching terrorism' and supporting the extermination of innocent people, even though I wrote in the post in question the complete opposite," Smotrich added.

He said, "So either you're just an amateur who relies on a provocative journalistic headline without looking for the...