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Yekutiel Ben-Yaakov, his English name Mike Guzofsky, formerly of New York, received a sentence of 200 hours of community service, a suspended 6 month jail sentence and a parole period of 3 years.
Undoubtedly, he will be deemed by the regime and by the left as yet another individual of “moral turpitude” for daring, in what amounted to an informal referendum poll with 100,000 respondents, to ask politically incorrect questions in the months before the expulsion like “Should We Expel Arabs or Jews?”
Now the question must be; what exactly constitutes community service and hasn’t Ben-Yaakov already worked way over 200 hours over past years in merely the project to initiate the “mishal am” and it’s website? More precisely, what constitutes the leftist perception of “politically correct” community service? MB
Six-Month Sentence for Asking: Should We Expel Arabs or Jews?, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)
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Yekutiel Ben-Yaakov, convicted over a private referendum he conducted, was sentenced on Tuesday to 200 hours of community service, along with a suspended sentence of six months in jail. Ben-Yaakov’s parole period is to last for three years. About 50 demonstrators, including some musicians playing protest songs, showed up outside the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, where sentencing took place.
Yekutiel Ben-Yaakov, formerly known as Mike Guzofsky, moved to Israel from New York.
Jew Faces Sentencing for Creating Referendum
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Jewish activist Yekutiel Ben-Yakov of Kfar Tapuach faces sentencing on Tuesday morning for creating a referendum prior to the expulsion of Jews from Gaza in 2005. Ben-Yakov was convicted of inciting to racism, and now faces a sentence of up to five years in prison. He believes he was charged with incitement because his referendum upset the government by showing to what extent the “Disengagement” plan went against the will of the majority.
Ben-Yakov’s referendum asked whether those questioned supported then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to expel Jews from Gaza and Samaria more than an alternative plan to expel hostile Arabs from the same areas. More than 100,000 participated in the referendum, which can be seen at www.mishal.org/eng/and over 90 percent said they would rather expel hostile Arabs than Jews. “It’s outrageous that a country that calls itself a democracy can put someone on trial for making a referendum… a referendum is the purest form of democracy,” Ben-Yakov said Monday.
Supporters plan to rally in front of the Jerusalem Magistrates Court in the Russian Compound at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Those who cannot attend the rally are invited to send faxes to Justice Rivka Friedman-Feldman at 02-625-4189 to express their interest in the case.