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NeutiquamErro
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There are two entirely separate issues here.

The behaviour of those protesters in the video, and the wider political issue.

There is a correlation between the two issues, but not necessarily causation. Wild, violent behaviour by some angry protesters is not an indictment of the entire movement, any more than agreeing with the views of the protesters validating bad behaviour.

The protesters acting violent in the video were wrong in acting in the manner they did, even if provoked. A Yid is expected and required to mantain a certain standard no matter what the situation, and some of these people failed miserably in that regard. Obviously the fact that this video is taken in isolation makes it much harder to see what’s going on, but that doesn’t excuse these actions. Condoning the protest does not equal condoning what took place in those few sayings. And obviously both in terms of touching a woman and hitting anyone, this is ossur.

Having said that, the only truly violent behaviour in this video is by a very young child. It’s impossible to say if this child was badly bought up, in a difficult situation or even just ADHD. To judge all of them on the actions of a few, especially the actions of a child, is plainly ridiculous.

I’m not going to go into the wider politics, firstly because of how incredibly long that would take and because there is little in this world more mind-numbingly irritating and convoluted than the ins and outs of Israeli politics. I’ll leave that unpleasant task to the rest of you.

In conclusion: Yes, those who were violent in the video were wrong and almost certainly oiver several issurim, but the most significant actions were by a child, and we have no way of knowing what led to that.