I consider it part of the season about which nothing can be done, and I have gotten used to just ignoring them. I tried installing an app on my phone that claimed to block the political messages, but I never noticed any effect. Many people get really upset at these messages.
One of those people, as reported by Ynet, went to a parlor meeting of a randomly selected party that had sent him messages. The parlor meeting had about 50 people present waiting to hear from party chairperson Tamar Zandberg when this fellow stepped up and asked for the microphone. For unknown reasons, Zandberg gave it to him, and this fellow began reading a list of spam message she had received from Meretz, including the part that says "to be removed form the list, reply "remove" ".
At some point Zandberg took the microphone back and some Meretz activists who were present started manhandling the guy. There is video of the incident.
The fellow said he wont vote for Meretz because of the spam they sent him. He had just returned from abroad and went to the first parlor meeting he found, which happened to be that one of Meretz - he had received spam from a number of parties.
I guess he found all that spam frustrating enough to do something about it, and he found a funny way of going about it. Meretz looked bad over this. They did not need to get physical with this guy who posed no threat.
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