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Amir Hetsroni, an Israeli professor of communication, is making headlines after a chair was thrown at his face during a live broadcast of the Ashdod TV Online website, which was broadcast from the center of the city garden in Ashdod.
Amir Hetsroni (born February 6, 1968) is an Israeli communication professor who presently lectures at Istanbul's Koç University. In addition to being a novelist and publicist in Israel, he is well-known for his contentious beliefs.
From his Wikipedia page.
"Hetsroni describes himself as an "anti-Zionist who is not pro-Arabic". He has made comments in favor of colonialism and against absorption of refugees from the Third World. Since the early 2010s, Hetsroni's name has been associated with various scandals where he expressed a divisive outlook. In 2011, when a socialist protester set himself alight at a demonstration, Hetsroni commented that this was "an inexpensive way to get rid of a social parasite". In 2013, he described feminist women marching in the SlutWalk as "too bulky to be looked at" and said that if he needed to choose between rescuing a feminist and rescuing a cat, he would rescue the cat as cats are more grateful than are feminists. He sued for slander a feminist activist who called him "misogynist consumer of prostitution" and won.[19] In 2014, he described the Israeli war in Gaza as a massacre,[20] and in 2015 he blamed Mizrahi Jews in the victory of the right wing in the parliamentary elections, and added that these Jews should have stayed in their homeland. This brought about public outcry and demands to interrogate Hetsroni for spreading racism and hate speech.[21] Further demands came in 2016, when Hetsroni desecrated the national flag by posting a picture in which he uses the flag to mop the floor at his house[22] and in 2017 when he posted a picture of himself smiling on the graves of soldiers saying that they were "idiots who did not know how to avoid the draft".[23] Israel's attorney general dismissed all the claims to put Hetsroni on trial, stipulating that his words fall within the perimeter of free speech.[24] Most recently, a noted Rabbi, Meir Mazuz called Hetsroni "incarnation of the devil".[25] Hetsroni himself proudly announced that he is "no longer Jewish".[26]"