INN: Feiglin: Runis Was Victim of Soviet-Style PC Terror Machine

Ex-MK Moshe Feiglin wrote on Facebook Monday that he thinks Population, Immigration and Border Authority (PIBA) official Ariel Runis killed himself because of a sinister threat most people are not aware of – and not just because of a Facebook post by a woman who accused him of racism.

“I read the letter written by Ariel Runis z”l, and then read it again,” wrote Feiglin, “in an effort to understand what brings a good, successful man like that, a person who contributes to society, a man who is head and shoulders above the rest, to commit suicide over such a trifle.”

“It isn’t the post that killed Ariel – a Shin Bet veteran. He isn’t a little girl, whose classmates mocked on the Internet. There is something much deeper here. Ariel is a victim of lethal political correctness – and of himself,” wrote the former Likud MK, who has founded a new movement. “And he more than hinted at this in his letter.”

The post by the accuser – an African American woman named Lee Lenoir Yurista – was not written by her, Feiglin said – and Runis knew it. “He understood that someone wrote that post for her. He understood that someone made sure to promote and get those 6,000 shares. There are people out there who know how to wait and recognize opportunities, who knows how to pull the strings and produce the interview with Rafi Reshef (on Channel 10) and the entire ‘media festival.’”

Like a Soviet general

Runis “knew well how this works – he wasn’t stupid – he knows how things work, behind the scenes. And he hinted broadly that under other circumstances, he himself would have ‘enlisted’ to such a campaign.” The PC machine mistakenly targeted one of its own, Feiglin added – and the man couldn’t stand it.

Feiglin said that Runis reminds him of a heroic Soviet general, who suddenly finds himself facing a tribunal and knows that there is no way back. “He was a victim of the system, and enslaved to it at the same time. He had no other identity but the one that is now being taken from him. He could have withstood any other epithet, but ‘racism’? Only suicide will clean him from this stain now.”

“He did not have the most important thing – a family – which is also not in the relevant set of values. He had no other anchor in the world, except the identity that he chose, and which is now denied by the entire world around him. What is left to live for?”

Feiglin advised his followers to look at the responses to his post. Many of them would be legitimately critical, he predicted – but they would be followed by a wave of concentrated character assassination. “Watch and see how the monster that (mistakenly) killed Ariel awakes.”