Following months of headlines detailing Yair Netanyahu’s controversial social media posts, the prime minister’s son has gone skilled along with his on-line skills, securing a job because the social media supervisor for an outstanding Israeli NGO.
Previously criticized for being unemployed whereas dwelling along with his dad and mom on the taxpayer’s expense, the 26-year-old final month began working for Shurat HaDin — Israel Law Center, a Tel Aviv-based non-governmental group whose goal is to put terror organizations out of enterprise.
Over the previous 14 years, Shurat HaDin has helped safe over $200 million for the households of terror victims, and is accountable for the freezing of a further $600 million in belongings belonging to terror organizations or state sponsors of terrorism.
In its newest marketing campaign, Shurat Hadin is suing Facebook, Google and Twitter for permitting terror teams corresponding to Hamas to disseminate their messages on their platforms. Yair Netanyahu’s new job will contain spreading phrase of the NGO’s actions through those self same platforms.
Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner has spent the previous decade submitting lawsuits for the victims of terror assaults in opposition to the governments, banks and companies that enabled or financed the violence. (courtesy)
“We realized every legal campaign must be accompanied by a public campaign, including on social media,” Shurat Hadin president Nitsana Darshan-Leitner advised the Jerusalem Post, which first reported the story Monday. “Social media is a good way of passing our message to policy makers, legislators and people on the street.”
Darshan-Leitner acknowledged that Yair Netanyahu was completely fitted to the duty.
“Yair is very intelligent, and he has terrific skills in expressing himself,” she stated. “He connects what is happening in Israel and around the world with the organization’s activities on social media. He is doing good work so far.”
Those skills have, nonetheless, have additionally landed Netanyahu Junior in scorching water on greater than a few events, with contentious social media posts usually attacking his and his household’s detractors.
Last yr, he was criticized for posting a cartoon that appeared to undertake anti-Semitic themes to take goal at his dad and mom’ critics, together with former prime minister Ehud Barak, lawyer and Labor party activist Eldad Yaniv, and Menny Naftali, a former caretaker on the Prime Minister’s Residence, who's on the coronary heart of allegations of wrongdoing over which Sara Netanyahu is dealing with indictment.
Screenshot of a portion of the cartoon posted by Yair Netanyahu, September eight, 2017. (Facebook)
Just final month, he waded into the diplomatic spat between Jerusalem and Ankara, by sharing a picture saying “Fu*k Turkey” on Instagram.
He has beforehand made worldwide waves by saying in a submit that American left-wing teams are extra harmful than neo-Nazis, following lethal violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, throughout a far-right march, and US President Donald Trump’s controversial statements that “both sides were to blame” for the violence.
Facing often-negative media protection (that has included his hyperlinks to legal investigations of his father and recordings revealing an evening of debauchery at Tel Aviv strip golf equipment), Yair Netanyahu, like Shurat Hadin, has turned to the courts over social media posts.
In September, he filed a libel go well with for NIS 140,000 ($40,000) over a submit that claimed the prime minister had requested the Mossad to concern Netanyahu Junior a passport in a completely different title, which he then used to conceal cash offshore. The implications of the submit had been that the Netanyahu household was concerned in cash laundering or tax evasion.