After about a week: Eisenkot's campaign sign in Cyprus vandalized

A billboard of the 'Yashar!' party led by Gadi Eisenkot, placed in Cyprus as part of election propaganda, was vandalized with Palestinian flag colors about a week after its installation. The sign, placed between Larnaca and Limassol, sparked a storm: European Parliament member Fidias Panayiotou attacked the campaign as 'Israeli takeover', and Leon Vidal, a Spanish Jew living in Cyprus, called it 'damage to the abomination of the world'. The CEO of the company that led the campaign, Amnon Iluz, defended the move and linked the reactions to the deterioration in Israel's international standing under Netanyahu.

A billboard placed by the chairman of the 'Yashar!' party, Gadi Eisenkot, in Cyprus as part of election propaganda, was vandalized with Palestinian flag colors about a week after its installation. The sign was placed along the road between the cities of Larnaca and Limassol, and was intended to appeal to Israelis vacationing on the island. The vandalism of the sign sparked an internal storm in Cyprus, at the center of which was harsh criticism from Cypriot European Parliament member Fidias Panayiotou, who wrote on X that it was an 'Israeli takeover'. Leon Vidal, a Jew from Spain living in Cyprus, criticized the campaign and called it 'damage to the abomination of the world'. The CEO of the company that led the campaign, Amnon Iluz, defended the move in an interview with Kan News, and argued that the question is how an Israeli sign became a focus of anti-Semitic hatred, and that this stems from the deterioration in Israel's international standing under Netanyahu. Iluz emphasized that the campaign was approved by Cypriot advertising professionals, and that the sign was up for ten days and came down yesterday.