The decision by National Civilian Service Administration Director Sar-Shalom Jerbi to remove human rights group B'Tselem from the list of approved national service organizations, first reported by Israel Hayom, continues to spur public debate and has caused bereaved families to lash out against B'Tselem. Meir Turgeman, whose son Evyatar was killed in a clash with terrorists in Khan Younis, said: "B'Tselem isn't willing to face reality and understand that there are terrorists who killed my son. The fact that they aren't willing to define Hamas as a terrorist organization is contemptible, the lowest of the low. My son went to war for them so they could sit in Tel Aviv and say that the person who killed him isn't a terrorist-" Arie Meisels, who lost his son Gal in the 1997 helicopter disaster in northern Israel, told Israel Hayom: "It's good there's a watchdog, but everything has its limits. B'Tselem has crossed the line of good taste. The entire country saw that the [Gaza] war was not a war of choice. We saw soldiers sacrificing their lives. I don't understand or accept that there are Jews who are capable of saying deluded things like that. What's even worse is that they get money from the government." Yaakov Turgeman, whose son Yair was killed when terrorists attacked the Dotan army camp in 2004, said, "If B'Tselem would speak up about the hundreds of thousands who have been murdered in Syria and the rest of the region and against the brutality of ISIS, I'd try to understand them." "But when they keep supporting Hamas, we need to admit that 'the starling has joined the raven' -- like goes with like," Turgeman concluded.
