Slippery Slope

A group of Jewish women assaulted an Arab woman as she was waiting for the train at a station in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – nrg)

Right-wing members of the Jerusalem City Council succeeded in blocking a master plan for Palestinian building in the Old City, saying one of their big objections was its omission of a new Jewish neighborhood in the Muslim Quarter. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Abdul Karim Lafi, an architect and chairman of the parents committee in Beit Safafa, was arrested and taken in for an interrogation at 2 am on the charge of calling for a strike in Beit Safafa schools to protest the construction of road number 4 that will take 250 dunums of private land and split the village in two. In addition, village residents have complained that ever since their protest has started, Israeli authorities have increased enforcement policies in the village, including sending in tax agents. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Price tag slogans were sprayed on graves at the Muslim cemetery in Agron street in Jerusalem.

(Hebrew)

The charge of incitement to violence has been removed from the indictment of Shimon Siman-Tov, one of the suspects of the lynch in Jerusalem’s Zion Square.

(Hebrew – HaKol HaYehudi)

The tires of a vehicle owned by an Arab were slashed in Kiryat Moshe neighbourhood in Jerusalem

(Hebrew)

Border Guard officers in Jerusalem were filmed singing “Muhammad is dead.”

(Hebrew – mynet (with video))

The municipality of Jerusalem demolished two buildings built without permits in the northwester neighborhood of Beit Hanina, even though approximately 30 Palestinians lived in the houses. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

An 18 year old Jewish man was arrested by police in Jerusalem on suspicion that he and a friend assaulted Arab taxi drivers with tear gas.

(Hebrew- Haaretz)

The Police has been conducting enforcement operations in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Isawiya and Silwan. The operations included numerous arrests, roadblocks to inspect vehicles, tax collection, house demolitions, shutting off water, various fines, searches and random checks of identification, and more.

Residents said police officers and commanders have admitted to them that in practice it is punishment in response to rock-throwing and other disturbances.

“Learn not to throw rocks. As long as you continue to throw rocks we aren’t leaving,” one Silwan resident said a police officer told him. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)