Police impartiality? ProReform protest organizers threatened with arrest
Anti-government protesters block roads and ports, while pro-reform protesters are banned from handing out ribbons…
In Tel Aviv, anti-government protests are descending into scenes of chaos, with protesters breaking onto the Ayalon Highway and being detained for engaging in violence. In Haifa, a group of Navy reservists sailed small boats into the harbor and blocked the port. In Jerusalem, five people were arrested on suspicion of having participated in a spray-painting of downtown streets, leading the Supreme Court, now decorated with a wide swathe of pink and red, apparently to represent the link between the Supreme Court and "culture, sport, leisure, and freedom of expression.”
Meanwhile, protesters calling to "paint the country blue" and demonstrate their support of the government's judicial reform package are being threatened by police, ordered to stop handing out blue ribbons, and prevented from giving leaflets to passers-by explaining what the reforms are all about.
[…] Israel Police has been coopted by the anti-reform protests. Those opposing the reforms are being allowed to run amok and cause disruption, block roads, and damage public property, while peaceful, legal, and legitimate protests in support of the reform are being called criminals and are threatened with arrest.
The conduct of the police is yet another piece of evidence showing why the State of Israel needs to get back on track and why we need judicial reform."
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Listen to Israeli police heresy and read more at here http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/368810
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