IDF officer (res.) Dovi Yudkin published a sharp warning on Thursday on his Facebook account regarding the treatment of Charedi prisoners in military prisons.
Yudkin, from Kfar Chabad, is the brother of Capt. Yisrael Yudkin, H’yd, who fell in the Gaza Strip more than a year and a half ago.
Yudkin stated that he chose to speak out publicly “just before a disaster happens,” saying that senior IDF commanders will not be able to evade responsibility if a detainee is seriously harmed, chalilah.
“I am warning just before the disaster happens, and when it does, none of those sitting at the top will be able to say, ‘My hands did not shed this blood,’” he wrote.
“In recent weeks, I’ve received dozens of appeals and very difficult graphic descriptions of what is happening on the ground.”
“By order of the Supreme Court and senior IDF levels, an order was given to humiliate and trample all the rights of the arrested Chareidim—to the point of lack of medical treatment for those staying in detention facilities, no phone calls to their families, and denial of the right to receive adequate legal representation.”
“The instruction was also given regarding Chareidim who came of their own accord to enlist in the IDF and are currently in the cellars and detention facilities of the military police.”
“The judicial system and the IDF leaders are brewing chaos here and waiting for the moment when a disaster happens to one of the detainees, which of course would greatly deepen the rift in Israeli society.”
“I am warning that if, chalilah, something happens to one of the Chareidi detainees, the country will burn as it hasn’t burned since its establishment.”
“The blood of Chareidim isn’t hefker.”
A Chareidi who commented on the post confirmed Yudkin’s report about Chareidim who chose to enlist, writing, “I have a brother who went to enlist and became a victim of the military police. He’s been in prison for three weeks because he chose to enlist!! He has a newborn and a four-year-old daughter and a wife who just gave birth and is about to collapse.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
a “get-out-of-jail-free” card isn’t a “right”. if hareidi draft-dodgers are treated the same as anyone else in a military prison, that isn’t “trampling their rights”. if they were previously allowed to ignore the law, for reasons of political expediency, treating them fairly now, is not the problem. dina di malkhuta dina.
The vile hatred of our nazi brothers is breathtaking may Hashem open their eyes to their self hatred.
If you want a great conspiracy theory, how about the for every Hareidi who responds to zionist persecution by joining Neturei Karta, the people responsible in the Israeli judiciary and the IDF officer corps get a commission. The only problem is Neturei Karta probably doesn’t have enough money to pull it off.
These leftists on the (not so) Supreme Court and the (so called) upper echelons of the IDF see the population writing on the wall as the Chareidim Bly’H multiply so they engender thug strategy to try and break the Chareidi will. The rightists don’t realize that the Chareidim are the canaries in the mine. The left thinks they will mow down the right once they “rid” the country of the Chareidim. Ain’t gone happen without an eventual -& potential civilian war. Ikcviseh d’Moshiach?
@shloime you klutz, no one is asking for a “get-out-of-jail-free” card, all they are asking is fair treatment. The biggest terrorists in Israeli prison receive all their needs, even Sinwar received medical treatment in prison. So why should an Chareidi citizen with no criminal record not be treated like a human being? You self hating jew!
Except as expected from the Nazi Gestapo Zionist authorities.
shloime:
You must not be Jewish.
The article noted two policies (not just realities):
1. Discriminate against chareidim, including denying legal representation and medical care
2. Hurt Chareidim, even those who came of their own accord to enlist in the Zionist shmad army.
Since you invoked “dina diMalchusa dina”, could you specify where in halachic literature that could be found and also its parameters and applicability here?
As it happens, according to the Torah authorities, DDMD is totally irrelevant to the Zionist paradise because it is not a malchus like any gentile country would be and, therefore, its “dinim” are not dinim.