verdict, which they added was “founded on the principles of freedom of speech.” “Ignoring these principles would have been a fatal blow to the vital role of Israeli investigative journalism,” Uvda’s statement said.

Ben-Gvir v. Danker

 In 1995, soon after the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Amnon Dankner called Itamar Ben-Gvir, a right-wing politician, a “dirty little Nazi” on a national television program broadcast on Israel's state television channel, Channel 1. Ben-Gvir sued Dankner for slander, but the Jerusalem District Court rejected his case.

The Israeli Supreme Court took up the case.  Hurling the word Nazi at someone on national television was found to be slander by the...

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