Israel’s education minister on Monday instructed a regional high school in Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh, nine miles northeast of Netanya, to cancel a lecture by Ron Scherf, a reserve lieutenant colonel in the Israel Defense Forces and co-founder of the anti-government protest movement Brothers in Arms.

Scherf was invited to participate in a seminar on human rights and democracy, but the school canceled the invitation following orders from the ministry, according to Israel National News .

The report cited Ma’ayan-Shahar High School’s principal as writing to Scherf that “a new directive was published by the Education Ministry director-general, which views the Brothers in Arms organization as one that calls for or promotes refusal to serve [in the IDF], in violation of the State Education Law,” a

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