The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), petitions the High Court of Justice, demanding an end to what they claim is an effective ban on political demonstrations during wartime, after police forcefully dispersed several protests against the government this past week. ACRI filed the on behalf of Itamar Greenberg, a student and leading Hadash activist arrested twice in the past weeks for partaking in demonstrations against the Iran war and the recently passed death penalty law.
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Three Israeli anti-war activists who tried to break through Gaza border freed from jail
Itamar Greenberg, Roman Levin and Roy Elani were arrested and detained in Beersheba District Court after crossing briefly into the Gaza border on Friday.
The activists are part of a small but loud group of Israelis who have decried their country’s military actions in Gaza and who have marched toward the Gaza fence for weeks in solidarity with the Sumud Flotilla, aiming “to break the siege on Gaza.”
We broke into Gaza
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‘Next time, we’ll tattoo a Star of David on your face’
In February, Palestinian prisoners released as part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement were forced to wear shirts emblazoned with the Star of David, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) logo, and the phrase “We will not forget and we will not forgive” in Arabic.
Now, a Jewish-Israeli detainee in IPS custody has also been subjected to this humiliating practice: IPS officers compelled left-wing activist Itamar Greenberg, who was arrested last Sunday, May 24 at an anti-war protest, to wear a shirt with the inscription “Am Yisrael Chai” (“The Nation of Israel Lives”). During his detention, they also cursed at him, and threatened that next time they would tattoo a Star of David on his face — as had previously been done to a Palestinian detainee from East Jerusalem.