Yair Golan Threatens Legal Action Over Election Video Featuring Deepfake Yarmulke Image
Translated & summarized from Now 14 by baba
Yair Golan, chairman of the Democrats party, sent a legal warning to Benny Gantz and the Blue and White party over an election video. Golan claims a deepfake image of him wearing a yarmulke in the video violates election law. He demands the video be removed or clarified by Thursday morning, threatening further legal action.
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- Yair Golan sent a legal warning to Benny Gantz over an election video featuring controversial statements.
- Golan claims an image of him wearing a yarmulke in the video is a deepfake.
- The Democrats party demands the video be removed or clarified by Thursday.
- The video includes quotes attributed to Golan such as "The IDF is the army of the occupation."
- Failure to comply may result in legal action and injunctions from the Elections Committee.
Yair Golan, chairman of the Democrats party, has sent a stern warning letter to Benny Gantz, chairman of the Blue and White party, threatening legal proceedings over an election video. The video, posted on Gantz's Facebook page, features a series of controversial past statements attributed to Golan. However, Golan's letter does not address the content of these statements but focuses on a specific image within the video where he appears to be wearing a yarmulke (kippah).
Golan asserts that this image is a deepfake, created using artificial intelligence, and that its inclusion in the election video without proper disclosure violates Israeli election law. The law requires clear notification when visual content is digitally generated rather than originally recorded. The controversial quotes highlighted in the video include Golan allegedly stating, "The IDF is the army of the occupation" and "These are not people, they are sub-human." The video concludes by morphing Golan's image into that of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, with the message, "In short Yair, don't be the left's Ben-Gvir."
The Democrats party is demanding that Gantz and Blue and White remove the video or add a prominent disclaimer, as required by law, by 10:00 AM on Thursday. The party stated that if their demands are not met, they will petition the Chairman of the Central Elections Committee for injunctions and other legal remedies.
