Peres calls on Jerusalem festival not to screen Yigal Amir documentary 'A black flag hangs over the decision to screen the movie about Yigal Amir,' says former president and long-time friend and political partner of slain prime minister Rabin; calls movie an attempt 'to legitimize a heinous murderer'.

Slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's long-time friend and political partner, Shimon Peres, called on Monday to stop the screening of a documentary about Rabin's murderer, Yigal Amir. "Let's say someone wakes up tomorrow and uses the freedom of speech to offer to murder someone - is this the freedom of speech?" the former president wondered in a special interview with Ynet.
Culture Minister Miri Regev said Sunday that she will reconsider state funding to the Jerusalem International Film Festival over the decision to screen a documentary about Amir, titled "Beyond the Fear," at the festival.

"A black flag hangs over the decision to screen the movie about Yigal Amir," asserted Peres, who won a Nobel Peace Prize alongside Rabin.

Former president Shimon Peres.

"A culture is built on freedom, but not on disgrace," the former president said. 
"The disgrace of Yigal Amir will continue echoing throughout the ages for generations. What he did is against Jewish morality, the Ten Commandments, and human freedom," Peres said. "He tried to put democracy to death, and put to death the man who was elected," he added.