In a Telegram post, commentator Haim Cohen recounts two unverified personal anecdotes: a man accused of attempting to run over Kaplan protesters was held incommunicado for nearly a week, and another man was arrested overnight for an online comment. The stories allege politically motivated discrimination by Israeli law enforcement.
Commentator Haim Cohen published a Telegram post on Thursday evening recounting two alleged incidents from Israel's 2023 judicial reform protests. The first concerns an acquaintance accused in media reports of trying to run over demonstrators at the Kaplan protest site in Tel Aviv. According to Cohen's account, the man was held in investigative detention for almost a week without contact with the outside world before it became clear that he had merely tried to carefully bypass a road blockage by a few protesters. The second anecdote describes a person who commented on a news article with a violent remark — "need to do to them what the IDF did in Huwara" — and was arrested by special forces that same night on suspicion of incitement. Cohen argues that the cases demonstrate politically motivated discrimination by Israeli law enforcement. The two accounts are unverified and rely solely on Cohen's personal testimony; no official police response has been obtained. The Zioneer previously covered related protest-police friction incidents, including an undercover police vehicle attack during a Highway 4 protest on June 17-18.
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