After the news spread on Tuesday that a Jerusalem court remanded senior Asra Kadisha leader Chizki Kalmanowitz, it was all but certain that violent protests would follow, and that is exactly what occurred on Tuesday night.
As is the norm, the violence included blocking the streets and setting garbage receptacles ablaze. Participants in the mayhem called police “Nazis” as they pelted them with stones, resulting in significant damage to a number of police vehicles.
It appears that police arrested at least three protestors.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Will Rabbonm of the area be as vocal and as firm against violance as they are against people outside of their area? Was there ever a strong ‘pashkvil’ condemming violance of THEIR OWN (not Gur)..? – in this case the Eida maintains that the construction project isn’t even doing anything wrong, as apose to the ‘Asra Kadisha’, so will they now say that anyone damaging property is like a regular burglar thieve?
Can’t they find a more respectable Torahdik way of protesdting? Do they have to imitate the Goyim of NY and Chicago?
What is this Asra Kadisha ?
Is this an organization ? Why were the leaders arrested, and did they vandalize and why ?
We are spoiled. We consider burning trash cans and tossed diapers to be “violence”. In the rest of the Middle East, that would be considered a wimpy peaceful protest.
But don’t worry. If the Zionist government keeps arresting hareidim, maybe we can close the gap with countries like Syria and Lebanon, not to mention Iraq and Afghanistan (all of whom are quite proficient at non-peaceful ways of objecting to the government).