Always trying to increase security in the occupied West Bank, Israel is increasingly relying on its “administrative detention” orders, the practice of detaining Palestinians on the basis of secret evidence and without recourse to any court. That’s unsurprising, and would be par for the course, except for the increasing reliance on social media “profiling.”
Israel has very specific ideas of what seems like it would be a terrorist thing to say on social media, and unsurprisingly that often runs directly parallel to being an ordinary Palestinian civilian. It’s also enough to get people disappeared into prison for one or more detention order.
So when someone on Facebook mentions a person who died, even of natural causes, as having been “martyred,” a common parlance in Arabic, many times they’re brought in for interrogation, not told why, of course, and only occasionally are even obvious cases of innocent confusion resolved without at least one four month detention order.
Israel argues that this is wholly appropriate, because of the extraordinary security situation, and perfectly legal under Israeli law, since free speech isn’t a thing in the military courts that handle Palestinians living under occupation, and many detainees never see the inside of a court at any rate.
It doesn’t take much, either. Mentioning someone having died is suspicious. Complaining about treatment by Israeli forces is “incitement,” and complaining about anything in general is often seen as a sign the person is potentially suicidal, and therefore a potential suicide attacker.
Indeed, Haaretz has a recording on a briefing in which one Israeli officer defended the detention of innocent people as such, saying that they might arrest a Palestinian kid so soon “he doesn’t know he’s a terrorist yet.” Palestinians, however, rarely have reason to doubt that Israel has made that judgement against them long ago.
Thought crime
In April 1933 my dad was arrested by the SD in Breslau, Germany. I still have his arrest warrant. He was clearly taken into “Schutzhaft” which meant no reason was given to him for his arrest nor was there any time limit for his arrest. He could have been sent to one of the early concentration camps. For reasons that have never become clear he was given a trial for insulting the new Chancellor in public writing.
What the Israeli’s do is “Schutzhaft” and British-style (in the Boer war) concentration camps.
Israel has no gas chambers or crematoria.
Israel has a 6-month time limit.
We American have no time limit.
Oh look. A lying hasbara troll. You know there is this thing called the internet…
“Over 300 of these “security prisoners” are held under administrative detention orders, with no intention to try them for any criminal offence, a violation of their right to a fair trial…Hana Shalabi, an administrative detainee from the village of Burqin in the West Bank, was transferred to Gaza for at least three years on 1 April 2012, three days after a deal was reached that ended her 43-day hunger strike in what appears likely to have been a forcible transfer. She was isolated from her independent lawyers and family, and is reported to have subsequently claimed she had not been given full information about the conditions of the deal. Other administrative detainees have been forcibly deported from the OPT in the past – a grave breach of international humanitarian law.” https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/starved-of-justice-palestinians-detained-without-trial-by-israel/
“….the Israeli Law on Authority in States of Emergency. Administrative detention is for six-month terms…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_detention#Israel
https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/starved-of-justice-palestinians-detained-without-trial-by-israel/
Nothing new. Irish Catholics were jailed in Northern Ireland for being male, young, and Catholic. That was the profile. LOL
So would another Holocaust be so blithely dismissed by the rationale that it happened before?
“LOL”
Dennis you seem to be amazingly unaware of the absurdity of your point.
I read a Israel pol taken by Palestinians on how they rated the Israel government They rated the Israel justice system and courts at about a 7o % approval . I wonder how your minorities or even your average citizen would rate your justice system and courts . I know the New world Order and the United Nation does not rate Israel near so high as the Palestinians do . I wonder why that is ?
Did you say that was an Israeli poll, did you now?! Gee, what a surprise what they report.