Bismuth Calls on IDF Chief to Bar Brothers in Arms Figures From Military Influence

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Boaz Bismuth said overnight Tuesday that people linked to the Brothers in Arms protest movement should not be given a platform in the IDF, following a report by News 14. The report said Omri Ronen, a former Brothers in Arms activist and a candidate for The Democrats party, had spent the past year giving paid lectures to soldiers and officers.

In a post on X, Bismuth wrote, “No forgiveness for insubordination!” He said that since taking office as committee chairman, he has not allowed Brothers in Arms representatives to appear before the committee or receive a platform there.

Bismuth said he intends to ask IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi to apply the same approach inside the military. “The place of those who tried to harm the IDF is outside its ranks and outside all centers of influence in the State of Israel,” he wrote.

The comments came after News 14’s political desk chief Moti Kastel published the report about Ronen’s paid lectures to IDF personnel.