Sandak Investigation May Shift Focus to Police
byThe abusive mistreatment teenagers who fit the ‘hilltop youth’ profile suffer from Israeli police results from a general attitude against these kids in the most dominant sectors of Israeli society.
The abusive mistreatment teenagers who fit the ‘hilltop youth’ profile suffer from Israeli police results from a general attitude against these kids in the most dominant sectors of Israeli society.
The fact that authorities took aggressive measures to keep paramedics and even a Knesset lawmaker away from the accident scene will only increase suspicions that the police caused Sandak’s death.
Too many details of the trial cause me to suspect this to have been a severe miscarriage of justice for both Amiram ben-Uliel and the Dawabsheh family.
Who are the notorious “hilltop youth”? On The Next Stage podcast, Yehuda HaKohen provides a rare glimpse into Israel’s most vilified subculture.
After several confrontations between security forces and Jewish teenagers over the last week, it’s clear that both sides need to take a step back in order to halt the cycle of violence.
The abusive behavior of Israeli police toward the hilltop youth subculture will likely only harden and further radicalize Judean teenagers.
The disparity between the treatment of Jewish and Palestinian prisoners by our security forces should be corrected not by lowering the moral standard for how we treat Jewish prisoners but by raising the moral standard for how we treat Palestinians.
If we see a disparity between the treatment of Jewish and Palestinian prisoners by our security forces, we should correct that disparity not by lowering the standard for how we treat Jewish prisoners but by raising the standard for how we treat Palestinians.
In a democratic society, administrative detention and torture cannot be go-to methods for solving crimes, no matter how heinous.
The disparity between how Israel treats Jewish & Palestinian prisoners should be corrected not by lowering the standard for how we treat Jews but by raising the standard for how we treat Palestinians.