Here is a real troubling story (excuse its length) from last Shabbos on Arab anti-Jewish discrimination and persecution from within Israeli police:
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Doctrine of Combat: After Remarking to Arabs of Illegal Behavior A religious citizen was violently arrested 20 minutes before Shabbat and held for hours without the knowledge of his family
Rotter, 30.05.22
When he goes out back to his house, some residents of the neighborhood approach him and tell him that there are Arabs at sea who make a mess on the beach, barbecue, hookahs, alcohol, loud music (all against the law) harass residents, threaten them and scare them (events that have become routine in the past year, including attempts of rape and a host of sexual harassment).
To try to help them, they appealed to some Arab families to stop their actions and calm things down. But then one Arab woman got up and threw her shoe in the face of the same guy and a commotion ensued. Despite this, A. told everyone who was there not to raise a hand and not to resort to violence and even prevented some guys from doing so.
Despite this, the Arab called the police but for some reason the police chose to hear only one side, the Arabs pointed to A. as a threatening factor (while he was the moderating factor). The police asked the guy to identify himself but he first asked to understand why and in what claim, he told the police that he wanted to file a complaint about the Arab woman who threw the shoe at him, but they demanded his arrest, 20 minutes before Shabbat !!! This is a religious guy!
During the conversation with the policemen, an Arab policeman, who had not been present at all before, arrived and began a violent arrest, with indescribable brutality and disproportionate to the incident and shocking without any prior warning, knocked him to the floor, resorted to blatantly unreasonable and very dangerous use of Taser. “!!! When he is already lying on the floor and there is no opposition on his part, so a reserve officer is humiliated for no reason, unjustly, in front of the Arabs.
The guy was dragged into the police car with brutality and humiliation even though he did not express any opposition and did not resort to violence. The policeman ignored and even refused to accede to his request that they bring him the Kippah and inform his wife that is waiting for him at home all this time, as far as his wife is concerned he went to immerse in the sea and did not return !!!
During the completion of the report, when A. was handcuffed and handcuffed like the last of the terrorists behind bars, he was told that he was under arrest.
While the Arab policeman is filling out a complaint report, he calls one of the policemen who was at the scene and consults with him on which section it is worth accusing him of because he himself did not understand what (and there really is nothing about) in Arabic so that he does not understand and everything she says the policeman writes, without trying at all to find out if she is lying or not.
Now listen carefully! The most humiliating part was, when at the end of the Arab policeman’s shift, before he went home he went to No ‘and said to him:’ Do not think that only you have Zionism, this land is ours and I will fight for it until its last grain ‘. This is what a policeman in the Israel Police says, instead of representing the State of Israel and its laws, he acts like a fifth column within the police.
Now listen to the great absurdity. A. is taken for questioning, after the interrogator hears the things and looks at the videos he himself says out loud that he is ashamed of the police behavior and does not understand why the incident developed to such dimensions, why they did not solve it with speech and composure and honestly used violence and adds that he has no doubt should release him to his wife and his children (who until now have no idea where he disappeared !!!), he takes off his handcuffs and goes to talk to the officer.
After several hours of helplessness and uncertainty and waiting for the decision of the shift officer, the investigator returns and tells him that he is very sorry, but contrary to what he estimated, it was decided to send him to detention until the end of the proceedings at Kishon Detention Center.
He handcuffs him again, A. asks to speak to the officer and tries to understand how it could be and what is the reason for extending the detention? The officer has no words in his mouth other than: “instructions from above.” After long hours and after countless requests and pleas that at least they would leave him at the station so that he would not violate Shabbat, but the guy was taken to the Kishon Detention Center at 1:30 at night.
All this time A. is really begging to be informed by his wife in any way that he is under arrest but it does not interest anyone. His relative heard about the story and arrived on foot at the police station just minutes after he was taken away, the police told him that A. asked not to inform his wife that he was in custody, a complete lie! In Kishon’s detention, he spends until Sunday in a shocking atmosphere, he is put in a cell with 8 Arab detainees from Jenin, do you understand? An army combat officer is with Arabs from Jenin in the same cell all Saturday. He does not receive a kippah, he does not receive wine for Kiddush and Havdalah. During the Sabbath, he is physically threatened by some prisoners that if he does not behave as they ask, they will beat him.
On Saturday night, he was taken to the Magistrate’s Court in Haifa.
When he arrived at the court, the policeman asked for an extension of detention for five days until the end of the proceedings because he has a weapon at home (he was not armed at the time of the incident) so he is dangerous to the public, thank God the judge did not understand the connection and ordered his immediate release.
This shocking and appalling story is not just a private story that finds itself in a discriminatory and unjust situation, it is a story about what is happening in the ranks of the police. When an Arab policeman, wearing a uniform, tells a Jewish detainee that this land belongs to Arabs and he will fight for it until the last grain, it reflects to us that in the end there is a nationalist struggle against Jews in the State of Israel, that Arabs also wearing uniforms identify with him and take part in this struggle. There are many non-Jewish soldiers and policemen who faithfully serve the state and its citizens, but if we do not treat such policemen who discriminate against Jews, then our law enforcement system will also be neutered and will not stand by us on the day of command, and this day is near.