In a monologue he delivered last night (Sept. 14) at the opening of his show on Channel 14, broadcaster Yehuda Schlesinger called on Israel's Jewish public to hunt down the creators of the film "Naza", Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. Schlesinger addressed the camera directly and urged viewers to "hunt them, chase after them, don't give them a moment's peace, if they dare set their filthy foot in Israel."

Schlesinger, who hosts a daily show on Yitzchak Mirilashvili's Channel 14 and serves as "political correspondent" for Eli Azur's Walla news site, previously called for the systematic, institutionalized abuse and rape of Palestinian terror operatives as a means of revenge and deterrence, and even volunteered to abuse detainees himself.

He made those earlier remarks as a panelist on Keshet 12's morning show. Keshet apologized for the comments, and said Schlesinger too "expressed remorse for what he said and published an apology."

His appearances on the morning show were halted, and he later returned to host a program on Channel 14, a channel that routinely broadcasts incitement to violence, racism and war crimes, government propaganda serving the Netanyahu government, and fake news.

Now, following the premiere of "Naza" at the Venice Film Festival, where Abraham and Szor received a 25-minute standing ovation, and amid sharp criticism of them in Israel, Schlesinger has a new idea. This time he isn't calling to rape the documentary journalists, just to make their lives miserable.

According to Schlesinger, Culture Minister Miki Zohar's idea of stripping the filmmakers' citizenship is "cute, but small-time."

"I have a better idea," he declared, "something that's even worked here before. Hunt them down. Chase after them, don't give them a moment's peace, if they dare set their filthy foot in Israel. Don't give them a single minute. Outside their homes, at work, in cafés, out and about."

Partway through his remarks, Schlesinger inserted the caveat that people should engage in "legal, legitimate protest," but did not elaborate on where the line falls between that and harassing the two documentary filmmakers, who presented testimonies of war crimes committed by the IDF in Gaza. Israel has killed tens of thousands of women and children in the Gaza war; according to data from the Institute for National Security Studies, roughly 50,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed in the war.

Schlesinger, who wears a kippah and used to appear in orange shirts marking Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, even compared his campaign against Abraham and Szor to the broad public protest movement against the judicial overhaul, which included demonstrations outside the homes of lawmakers and ministers and confrontations with them in public. He didn't address the difference between elected officials and journalists, only insisting that this time the target is "the right one."

"We need to pick up the gauntlet," Schlesinger said in closing, "organize a squad of Jews in Israel and abroad, and show these two, and especially those who come after them, that 25 minutes of antisemitic applause from the world comes at a price, and it's heavy, very heavy.."

Channel 14 did not respond to a request for comment.

This article was published in Hebrew on September 15, 2026