Slippery Slope

83 reserve soldiers and officers who served under Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner in recent years sent a letter in his support to the IDF Chief of Staff and Minister of Defense.  In the letter they asked to show their “support and respect for a moral and ethical commanded” who was filmed hitting a Danish activist in the face using his rifle.

(Hebrew - Ynet)

A Military Police soldier lodged a  complaint against Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner – the deputy commander of the IDF’s Jordan Valley Brigade, filmed assaulting a Danish pro-Palestinian activist with his rifle but – claiming the Lt. Col. threatened the soldier he would “break his face” after the soldier stopped him for exceeding the speed limit.

(Hebrew - Nana10)

More than 400 foreign residents included in the Shin Bet’s black list of pro-Palestinian activists participating in a demonstrative fly-in were not activists and were put on the list without any concrete information about them. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew - Haaretz)

Settlers pepper-sprayed a Palestinian who was walking in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City at night.

(Hebrew - HaKol HaYehudi)

Jews injured an Arab-Israeli in the head during a brawl that broke out between Jews and Arabs at the Gan HaShlosha (Sakhne) natural spring resort.

(Hebrew – HaKol HaYehudi)

Israel Border Police officers beat and detained a 9-year-old boy from Hebron because he entered a closed military zone near a house from which settlers were recently evicted.  A medical examination determined that the boy suffered from wounds to his throat and had bruises on his back and chest. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew - Haaretz)