Itamar Ben-Gvir
b. 1976
The convicted extremist who became Israel's National Security Minister.
Itamar Ben-Gvir is the far right made cabinet-level: a Kahanist once convicted of anti-Arab incitement and support for a terrorist organization, now the National Security Minister with authority over the prison service. He is best known here for the AI video mocking the starvation of Palestinian detainees — a minister putting genocidal dehumanization on his own feed.
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He posted — then deleted — an AI video depicting Palestinian detainees in concentration-camp-style scenes.
FACTConveyor belts into a facility, thought-bubbles of food snuffed out, bodies wasted to bone — campaign content boasting of harsher detention, reported by Al Jazeera and CNN.
As National Security Minister he oversees the prison service he made light of starving.
FACTThe video was not a private meme but a statement about a system he controls, inside a documented run of prisoner-mocking posts ahead of Israel's October elections.
He was previously convicted of anti-Arab incitement and support for a terrorist organization.
FACTA follower of Meir Kahane, Ben-Gvir was convicted in 2007 of incitement to racism and supporting Kach — a group designated as terrorist — before rising to the cabinet.
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