א וְנֶפֶשׁ כִּי-תֶחֱטָא, וְשָׁמְעָה קוֹל אָלָה, וְהוּא עֵד, אוֹ רָאָה אוֹ יָדָע; אִם-לוֹא יַגִּיד, וְנָשָׂא עֲוֹנוֹ. Vayikra 5:1
From: Paul Rotenberg <pdr@rogers.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:07 AM
Subject: Police Threaten Nationalist with Taser at Home
To: Paul Rotenberg <pdr@rogers.com>
25/12/11 09:28
Video: Police Threaten Nationalist with Taser at Home
Footage shows how police harassed nationalist Pinchasi Bar-On inside the home where he is under house arrest.
Gil Ronen
Video footage (below) shows police officers harassing a nationalist, Pinchasi Bar On, inside his own home at Esh Kodesh, near Shilo.
Bar On, a soldier in the IDF, was arrested three weeks ago on suspicion of leaking military information to other residents in Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron, or Yesha). After more than a week of strenuous interrogation in the National Unit for Investigation of International and Serious Crime, he was released to eight days' house arrest after no connection was found between him and the alleged offenses.
During the days he was in house arrest, in the home of a relative in one of the communities in Binyamin, police came to the home twice a day, ostensibly to make sure that he was there. Every night, police visited the home in the wee hours of the night, between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m.
On the night between Wednesday and Thursday the police came at 2:40 a.m. Bar On opened the door and the police demanded identification. He told them – as he had told all policemen who visited the home previously – that his ID card had been left behind at Hadarim Prison, where he had been held, and that he had no other ID on him.
These police told him that he was being detained and taken to the police station for identification. Bar On objected and said that the police have other ways of ascertaining his identity besides dragging him off to the station at 3:00 a.m.
When the policemen insisted, Bar On said the arrest was unlawful, and refused to go along. In response, policeman Tomer Elias pulled out a taser gun and threatened to use it against Bar On, even though Bar On had used no force against the policemen.
Bar On was eventually handcuffed and taken to the police station, where he was charged with attacking Elias...
Bar On denied the charge and said Elias was deliberately harassing him for fear that Bar On would file a complaint against him. He was then locked up all day and cuffed during a large part of the time.
NGO Honenu that assisted Bar On said: "It appears that the police have decided to use the tools their disposal to get revenge on a person whose guilt they were not able to prove. This is a scandal."
Video courtesy of Hakol Hayehudi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WaIzXqLpkM&feature=player_embedded
Also sent today from:
Yosef Rabin <613yos@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 3:53 PMSubject: Har HaBayit Letter: Update - Yeshiva Hesder Student arrested for bowing on Har HaBayit today.
To: Rabbi Herschel Schachter <rabbihs@gmail.com>
This is the 7th arrest in the last 4 months.
http://www.kipa.co.il/now/47115.html
I am urging Rabbis, leaders and organizations to sign a letter condemning the terrible policies of the Israeli Government and Police on Har HaBayit. Already several organizations and rabbanim have signed. Harav Moshe Tendler has also agreed in principle to sign and push the letter, Rav Tendler asked me to call him tomorrow.
ASAP
*Name -
*City, State -
*Shul, Yeshiva or organizational position
011 972 54-492-9220
Public Declaration
End the Persecution of Jews on the Temple Mount!
We are shocked to learn that Jews, who ascend to the permitted areas of the Temple Mount in accordance with the rulings of their rabbinic authorities, are maltreated by the Israeli Police. It is incomprehensible that the State of Israel, which defines itself as "Jewish and Democratic", would act most un-Jewish and un-Democratic by implementing policies of harassment and discrimination against Jew's who ascend the Temple Mount!
After investigating the claims of those who regularly ascend to the Temple Mount: We find the Israeli Government guilty of implementing and enforcing the following policies that violate both civil and Torah principle!
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Only Jews must wait in a special security line before entering the Mount
Only Jews must show their ID's before entering the Mount
Only Jews are subject to special "ritual item searches" before entering the Mount
Only Jews are divided into groups when ascending the Mount and are forbidden from walking on the Mount alone
Only Jews are followed and filmed by both Israeli police and representatives of the Muslim religious authority (aka. WAKF) during their entire stay on the Mount
Only Jews are arrested for crimes, including the following: praying; learning Torah; holding religious books; wearing tallit or tefilin closing eyes, swaying; bowing; singing; dancing, ripping ones shirt in mourning for the Temple or picking up dirt to be placed of the forehead of a groom
Only Jews are prevented from ascending the Mount more than once a day
We the undersigned, call upon the Israeli Government to immediately end these policies, which contradict the most sacred values of the Jewish Nation. We will not stand silent as Jews are humiliated, the Torah denigrated and the Temple Mount betrayed at the hands of the Jewish State. The Government of Israel should remember that it was only 63 years ago that the British enacted such decrees against the Jews at the Western Wall. We call upon all Jews to protest this ongoing travesty of justice through every legal and democratic means possible.
We urge the Government of Israel to adhere to what is written, "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." (Isaiah 11:9)
Organizations:
All4Israel (USA)
Zalman Indig, Director
Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI (USA)
Helen Freedman, Executive Director
Institute for Temple Renewal– התנועה לכינון המקדש (Israel)
Rabbi Yosef Elboim, Executive Director
Matot Arim – מטות ערים (Israel)
Susie Dym, Executive Director
Temple Institute of Jerusalem – מכון המקדש (Israel)
Rabbi Chaim Richman, Director, International Department
Rabbis:
Rabbi Dr. Moshe Brown
Author of sefer Chanukah Lights
Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Mordechai Yitzchok Friedman, The Tyrnava Rav
President/Av Bais Din, The American Board Of Rabbis/Vaad HaRabbonim Of America
New York, NY
Rabbi Philip Lefkowitz,
Agudas Achim North Shore Congregation
Chicago, IL
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky
Congregation Bnai Yeshurun
Teaneck, New Jersey
Rabbi Ze'ev Smason
Nusach Hari Bnai Zion Congregation
St. Louis Missouri
Rabbi Mordechai Sorcher
Moro D'asro Kehila Kedoesha Talmud Torah, Rosh HaYeshiva Yeshivas Gedola of Avenue T
New York, NY
Political leaders:
-Not updated
Communal Leaders:
-Not updated
Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.
Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com
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