The Likud party has rolled out a provocative election billboard portraying New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani alongside Iranian leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, casting all four as figures who want Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu defeated in Israel’s upcoming October election, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The campaign ad urges Israeli voters to “not let them win.”
Netanyahu amplified the message himself, sharing an image of the billboard on social media with the caption: “Don’t let them win.”
The billboard combines images of Mamdani, Khamenei, Erdogan and Qassem beneath the message: “They want Netanyahu to lose, don’t let them win.”
Although some social media posts initially claimed that the advertisement had been erected in Yerushalayim, the billboard is actually located in Tel Aviv, overlooking the Ayalon Highway.
The campaign quickly prompted Netanyahu’s political rivals to produce their own altered versions of the ad, using Likud’s design and slogan to attack the prime minister.
Yashar, the party headed by former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, released a version declaring: “They want the IDF to collapse, don’t let Netanyahu win.”
“Netanyahu, we fixed for you,” the accompanying post on X stated. “Only Eisenkot will establish a fully Zionist government.”
{Matzav.com}
