Farmer Rejects MK Cassif’s Claim That Jews Poisoned Their Own Goats
A Jewish farmer has rejected the lies published by Israeli communist MK Ofer Cassif, who claimed that Jewish farmers near al Mughayyir in Judea and Samaria poisoned their own flock to blame Palestinians.
The image Ofer Cassif shared was a still from the video attached to this post. The footage shows the farmer struggling to give his goat treatment for poisoning. In his post on X, Cassif wrote that Jewish terrorists are poisoning their own goats to blame the Palestinians, and he ended it with the words “Free Palestine.”
What the farmer says
Evyatar Karo of Metzudat David farm says the bottle contained charcoal mixed with water to treat the poisoning. He says Palestinians had left poisoned dates and pita bread for the animals. In the video he introduces himself as the owner of the farm and explains, step by step, what the footage shows.
The footage Cassif used
The shepherd working for Karo, seen in the video, kicks the male goat away because it is trying to mate with the female goat while he is attempting to save her from poisoning. A man bending over a sick animal and pushing another away is easy to misread when a single frame is taken out of context.
Why the shepherd covers his face
Karo explains in the video that Palestinians from al Mughayyir film anyone grazing livestock nearby, then publish their faces and phone numbers and harass them. He says this is why the shepherd covers his face. Al Mughayyir is a Palestinian village northeast of Ramallah, close to the area where the Binyamin farms graze their flocks.
The post that started it
Cassif, a member of the Knesset from the communist Hadash party, wrote that the poisoning was happening openly before the eyes of the occupation forces and under their protection. He called those he accused “bringers of death” and a product of occupation.
The background: poisoned bait near al Mughayyir
The Binyamin Regional Council has counted at least 11 incidents of suspected poisoning near al Mughayyir since June 2025, with dozens of livestock, cattle and dogs reported injured or killed. Dates and pita bread containing a poisonous substance were left in grazing areas, and the substance was also reported in water troughs. The council’s head, Israel Gantz, said that if Israel stays silent while goats are poisoned, it will mourn when Israelis are poisoned. Two dead goats were found near the Metzudat David farm in early September.
Ofer Cassif, who started this lie as he so often does, and everyone who republished it should be ashamed.
