(Translation by me, apologies for any errors. Couldn’t find any article in English)
Leftist activist arrested after vandalizing a monument for a soldier fallen on October 7th By Asaf Pozailov, December 13th 2024
Andrey Karchanovski, a Russian Oleh and leftist activist, filmed himself sticking a “Free Palestine” sticker on the monument a week and an half ago. Father of Captain Shiloh who is immortalized by the monument: “the word ‘blasphemy’ is too big, the right word is villainy”
Andrey Karchanovski, a far left activist, was arrested yesterday (Thursday) following footage he filmed of himself sticking a “Free Palestine” sticker on a monument in Sderot for the memory of Captain Shiloh Cohen, who was killed on October 7th fighting in Kibbutz Be’eri. Karchanovski spent the night in jail.
Karchanovski, a Russian Oleh, filmed himself sticking the sticker on the monument at the lookout 10 days ago. Following the release of the footage, a complaint against him was filed to the police and yesterday he was arrested, while sitting at a cafe in Tel Aviv.
He spent the night in jail, and was released earlier today on the condition he would not visit the monument for the next month, and on bail of 15 thousand NIS (4180 USD). This is after the HaShalom courthouse in Ashkelon ruled that contrary to police claims, he is not dangerous.
His lawyer claimed this is a matter of freedom of speech, which includes things that might be unpleasant to hear, but this is not a criminal matter. He added the sticker disappeared from the location and therefore cannot be labeled vandalism. The police is supposed to announce later today whether they will choose to appeal the court’s decision.
Captain Shiloh Cohen Z”L, killed at Kibbutz Be’eri at age 24
Arye, father of Captain Shiloh told our journalist: “the word ‘blasphemy’ is too big, the right word is villainy. When someone can take a place meant to tell the story of the heroes who fell in this war, and turn it into a place that enables extremism, ridiculous, it’s not welcome. It’s essentially exploitation of the true democracy of Israel. Abusing freedom of speech to say such vile things, if there’s justice - this guy needs to get his punishment, to be judged, so everyone will see and hear that you cannot do something like this to the IDF soldiers”.
Captain Shiloh Cohen Z”L, 24 years old from Sderot, served in Shaldag. On October 7th he was armed with his personal pistol when he realized terrorists infiltrated the area. He left his home in a hurry with his brother’s weapon. At Sderot junction he met by chance fighters of Sayeret Matkal and with them a friend who was with him in officer training, he asked to join them. With these fighters he didn’t know, he cleared a few houses and fought in Kibbutz Be’eri. At 17:20 he was killed in Kibbutz Be’eri. The forces successfully rescued a teen of the family who lived in that house, and the fighters got him into the bathroom and secured him, but his father and mother were murdered. His father’s body was not found.