A Likud lawmaker accused the military’s top legal official on Monday of being “stained in soldiers’ blood” for carrying out investigations of alleged wrongdoing within the army, calling for her ouster, and praising the defense minister for preventing her from speaking at a law convention this week.

Speaking to the Knesset Channel, Hanoch Milwidsky, an outspoken critic of Israel’s judicial system, angrily condemned Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi for not probing the source of a leaked video showing troops allegedly sexually abusing Palestinian inmates and said she was wrong to hold soldiers to the army’s own code of conduct.

“This [military advocate general] needed to go for a while now — this woman whose hands are stained from the blood of our holy soldiers,” he said.

Milwidsky charged that Tomer-Yerushalmi’s insistence that soldiers adhere to the lawful conduct disqualified her, claiming that she had told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that her job was not to defend soldiers.

“She said her job was to defend soldiers, so long as they adhered to the army’s values. That her main role was to preserve the army’s values… She’s unfit.”

Pressed as to why Tomer-Yerushalmi should not defend troops based on their adherence to the army’s values, Milwidsky asserted that the military advocate general should defend soldiers, regardless of the circumstances.

The firebrand Likud MK claimed that Tomer-Yerushalmi’s office was behind the leak of a video allegedly showing Israeli guards sexually assaulting Palestinian inmates at the Sde Teiman detention facility last year.

Right-wing lawmakers claimed that the video was selectively edited, and Milwidsky told the Knesset Channel that the clip led to false rape allegations against Israeli troops.

Nonetheless, military prosecutors in February filed an indictment against five reserve soldiers over the Sde Teiman incident.

Milwidsky also hailed Defense Minister Israel Katz’s decision to bar Tomer-Yerushalmi from participating in an upcoming annual conference, hosted by the Israel Bar Association, citing concerns that the event would be a platform for “polemical and political content.”

The IDF pushed back against the decision, saying Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir had personally approved Tomer-Yerushalmi’s attendance. It also stressed the value of the military publicly defending the legality of its war activities.