Indymedia is an “alternative news” site and radical political forum used worldwide by activists to coordinate often violent activity. Indymedia helps violent protesters in a variety of ways, including providing fake press credentials for anyone paying a small fee to their site, which often are used by radicals to gain access to areas where their “direct action” activities can be more effective, and dangerous.

The Tides Foundation funded group is no stranger to controversy, and is known to be supportive of Palestinian terror groups. The Israeli cell of Indymedia is now under investigation for openly advocating violence against an individual Israeli soldier. One it turns out they picked at random:

Israeli prosecutors on Sunday ordered a criminal investigation into a website that it says published a picture of an soldier with the caption “murderer” and asked readers to identify him.

Indymedia Israel, a news site and activists’ forum, on April 17 posted pictures taken at Bilin, a village adjacent to Israel’s West Bank barrier where a Palestinian protestor was killed by Israeli forces hours earlier.

One of the pictures showed a soldier’s face alongside the caption “murderer from Bilin”, the state prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

“This soldier in this picture murdered Bassem Abu Rahma… do you know his name?” prosecutors quoted the website as saying.

The 30-year-old Abu Rahma died in a hospital after a tear gas grenade fired by Israeli forces struck him in the chest.

But prosecutors claim the soldier, who they say might easily be identified from the image, had nothing to do with the incident.

Deputy chief prosecutor Shai Nitzan ordered police to investigate whether Indymedia Israel had breached the soldier’s privacy.

This is the second time the website has run foul of authorities. A previous inquiry into whether it had incited violence was scrapped.

Meanwhile no Indymedia affiliate has mentioned the murder of 16-year-old Neda Agha Soltan or published any photos of the Palestinian thugs Iran imported to attack protesters. An oversight, I’m sure.