What Free Speech? Police Block, Detain Anti-Netanyahu Protest Leaders
Netanyahu, who arrests anyone who criticizes him, is an egotistical dictator who wants to give most of Israel to the Arab Muslim Nazis that openly promise to exterminate the Jews so he can “look good” to the Jew-hating United Nations.
This week would have been the 39th Saturday night protest near Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit’s home.
The police set up roadblocks in Petah Tikva on Saturday night, attempting to stop the weekly demonstration there calling on the attorney-general to charge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with corruption, and detaining two of its leaders.
The police revoked the permit for the demonstration, but that did not stop roughly 2,000 protesters from showing up outside the city’s police station.
The police stopped former Prime Minister’s Residence superintendent Meni Naftali and anti-corruption crusader and unsuccessful Labor Knesset candidate Eldad Yaniv from entering Petah Tikva.
The two men called on demonstrators to protest in front of the police station.
This week would have been the 39th consecutive Saturday night protest near Attorney- General Avichai Mandelblit’s home. However, on Thursday, Police Legal Adviser Ayelet Elissar wrote to its organizers that the police “will not authorize the demonstrations … because of a significant change in the size of the demonstrations and their character.”
In addition, Elissar wrote that if they want to hold the protests elsewhere, they will have to apply for a new permit.
The move came after Petah Tikva residents petitioned against the demonstrations, saying that they were disturbing them. The city has a large religious population, and the rallies usually began before the end of Shabbat.
On Friday, Yaniv called on demonstrators to disobey the police’s instructions, writing on his Facebook page that the police are “hysterically lying” and that protesters should show up in the usual place at 8 p.m. on Saturday.
“The police are being pressured by Bibi’s hysterics, and when they are pressured, they lie. The demonstration is legal. It was authorized by the High Court and nothing changed.
