NIF CEO on Anti-Filming Bill: Tyrants Restrict the Rights of People to Record What Happens Around Them; Democracies Don’t

Israel’s Cabinet is expected to vote on a bill on Sunday which calls for up to 10-year jail terms for anyone who distributes video or audio footage of IDF Soldiers. In Israel, as elsewhere in the world, video footage of police and military activity has become part of how citizens can blow the whistle on wrongdoing by authorities.