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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 07:27 PM Apr 2013

WATCH: Israeli Activists Detained For Filming Illegal Settlement Construction

In the video below (filmed by an Israeli Ta’ayush activist on Monday April 1 and subtitled quickly by yours truly) a policeman approaches Israeli activists who regularly go to the South Hebron Hills (he knows all their names already) and informs them they are being detained.

For what? For filming illegal construction at an illegal outpost in the area called Avigayil on a different day. That’s right. This was not an April Fool’s joke, but the way the law is actually being enforced by Israeli authorities in the West Bank.



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WATCH: Israeli Activists Detained For Filming Illegal Settlement Construction (Original Post) Purveyor Apr 2013 OP
so filming settlement building is illegal now? azurnoir Apr 2013 #1
This is only suppose to happen under theocracies, from what I've heard. n/t Jefferson23 Apr 2013 #2
oh it can happen under democracies too azurnoir Apr 2013 #3
Noooo, you're wrong. This does not happen in Israel, they're only doing this for security reasons. Jefferson23 Apr 2013 #4
well it's most likely this OP delegitimizes and demonizes Israel too azurnoir Apr 2013 #5
Absolutely, that too. n/t Jefferson23 Apr 2013 #6
yep oddly though no one has spoken up azurnoir Apr 2013 #7

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
4. Noooo, you're wrong. This does not happen in Israel, they're only doing this for security reasons.
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 08:02 PM
Apr 2013

Or deterrence or something that would make it important to conduct itself in such a manner.

I have it on good authority.

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