Comeuppance

Nothing I like better than to see hard core leftwing groups like Peace Now being called to account and stuck with the piper’s bill. Arutz Sheva reports:

(IsraelNN.com) A Jerusalem judge ruled Wednesday that Peace Now must pay 58,000 shekels ($14,336) to Aryeh King after slandering him on the left-wing Peace Now website.

The group had claimed that King, a well-known activist for Jewish settlement in eastern Jerusalem, had announced that he planned to break the law by bringing 40 Jewish families to live in an area that lacked building approvals. The site called King a racist and a fascist, and accused him of threatening the peace of Jerusalem and leading to its “Hevronization.” The judge found that Peace Now’s allegations were false and slanderous, and ordered the group to pay the full penalty required by law.

Of course, the judge’s decision could still be reversed in appeal but I’ll enjoy it for now.