Attorney Michael Sfar, the lawyer for the extreme left organization Breaking the Silence, who in the past has testified against Israel and IDF soldiers to UN committees, sent a rather surprising letter on Monday to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit slamming the lockdown of Bnei Brak, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported.
In the letter, sent on the behalf of a Bnei Brak resident, Sfar demanded answers about how how the lockdown was planned, when it will end, and why the 106 municipal hotline hasn’t been adequately addressing residents’ requests.
Sfar also condemned the decision to enforce a closure on the city, claiming that the lockdown in Bnei Brak has turned the city into a literal prison.
Sfar also wrote in the letter that the Chareidi community is already a financially weak sector, and the lockdown will compound their plight as well as increase the stigma against the city and lead to incitement against Chareidim. He cited the now well-known incident in which a Bnei Brak resident was refused service by a Ramat Gan pharmacist, who refused to fill her prescription and give her the medications she needed.
“The enforcement of a closure only on the city of Bnei Brak can convey a terrible message – even if that’s not the intention – that the Chareidi community can infect one another as long as the rest of the Israeli population won’t become infected. A terrible message like this can cause the intensification of hatred among the various sectors of Israeli society.”
Sfar concluded the letter by demanding an answer regarding the government’s plans for the lockdown and why there has been an inadequate response to public requests, noting that according to law, as long as the lockdown is imposed, government authorities are required to meet the needs of the residents.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Not surprising at all. Just opportunist. The main interest of this Jew-hating organization is helping our terrorist enemies. Emphasizing that “according to law, as long as the lockdown is imposed, government authorities are required to meet the needs of the residents.” is just another way of saying you cannot ignore the poor Pals in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza strip. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
Your misleading heading implies that the far left organization “Breaking the Silence” is against the Bnei Brak closure.
In truth, and as you write in the article itself, the lawyer who usually represents the left wing arganization, in this instance, sent the letter “on the behalf of a Bnei Brak resident”.
This means that the lawyer was not representing the left wing organization but was representing a Bnei Brak resident. A lawyer is paid to say what his client says, and he indeed said what his Bnei Brak client wanted to say. It was NOT the left wing organization at all.
Fake new!
You say that they testified against the IDF like that’s a bad thing. If the IDF committed crimes, needs to be reported.