04-08-2025
'We can't allow it': Thousands gather in Tel Aviv protesting A-G Baharav-Miara's possible dismissal
Demonstrators gathered to support the attorney-general and call the government's decision a 'political and illegal attempt to remove her by those seeking to dismantle Israeli democracy.'
Thousands of people gathered outside Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara's home on Sunday night in support for her in the build-up to the anticipated vote on her dismissal, in what demonstrators called 'the political and illegal attempt to remove her by those seeking to dismantle Israeli democracy.'
Violence appeared to break out between Israel Police officers and protesters in footage shared by Israeli public broadcaster KAN.
'This is a dramatic moment in the path of (Finance Minister Bezalel) Smotrich, (National Security Minister Itamar) Ben-Gvir, and (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu to remove all checks and balances,' protesters emphasized.
'The people who abandon the hostages and soldiers in a senseless war, who back suspects of aiding the enemy during wartime, and appoint suspects of rape to head committees, will not stop themselves. They will do everything in the name of their fanatical, extreme ideology.'
The protest attracted several high-profile speakers, including Professor Avishay Braverman, former president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and retired High Court judge Ayala Procaccia. Braverman started the round of speeches by saying: 'You must understand that now is the time to act immediately and without hesitation.'
'The responsibility for stopping this process of destruction is on us, and each one of us must take this responsibility upon ourselves. We are on the eve of Tisha B'Av. We remember the destruction of the Temple, which marked nearly two thousand years of exile and the lack of independence for the Jewish people.
'We remember the destruction because it is happening before our eyes once again. We must remind ourselves that destruction is a process, and it happens when there are not enough people to stop it in time,' he added.
Finally, he described Gali Baharav-Miara as 'a brave woman, serving a path, not a patron,' and concluded, 'Tomorrow, we must not let the evil government fire Gali Baharav-Miara.'
Procaccia: 'A government of disgrace, led by a defendant in criminal cases with convicted officials'
Procaccia also addressed the public with a speech that described the current government as a 'disgrace.'
'Led by a defendant in criminal cases, with convicted officials who have served prison sentences, heads of committees where one is a criminal defendant and the other was appointed while being suspected of serious sex offenses,' she said.
'I see a leadership that has declared war on the proper democratic processes…harm to the independence of the gatekeepers turns the government into a single authority controlling its citizens without checks,' she added.
Activist Yaya Fink entered the stage with a can of food and said: 'I want to remind the negligent government: the can of food I'm holding is the only thing (Gaza hostage) Evyatar David ate last week. And tomorrow, you are holding a government meeting with rich refreshments, which won't discuss Evyatar or any of the hostages, but will focus on the dismissal of the legal advisor and increasing security for the most protected family in the world.'
'Do you have no shame?' he asked and slammed: 'Do you think you can fast for the destruction of the two previous temples, and the next day continue to destroy the third one? Have you forgotten what it means to be Jewish?'
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