JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem Faction, a splinter group of Lithuanian charedim who are opposed to any form of contact between yeshiva students and army officials, demonstrated and closed the main entry to Jerusalem Tuesday in protest over the arrest of a draft dodger. Police attempted to disperse the thousands of demonstrators who converged on the entrance to Jerusalem but despite using water cannon and a special “skunk” machine which spreads foul-smelling water, protesters have not yet dispersed.
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In recent months police have abstained from arresting members of the Jerusalem Faction in an attempt to prevent the violent demonstrations which have become a feature of the faction’s activities in the past few years. The faction refuses to allow yeshiva students to defer their army service while studying and maintains that they should not show up to army summons, effectively making all of them draft dodgers.
Chareidi public figures complained that police do not use similar extreme measures to disperse the almost daily demonstrations against Prime Minister Netanyahu which also block major arteries and only regarding Chareidim they use water cannon and the “skunk”.
Yeshiva students drenched by the water cannon and “skunk” sit on the road and protest
מאות מפגינים מהפלג הירושלמי הליטאי מפגינים בצומת הרחובות שרי ישראל ויפו בירושלים במחאה על מעצר בחור ישיבה עריק שלשום בצפון@AkivaWeisz pic.twitter.com/YwgzkALXLB
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) December 22, 2020
Jerusalem Faction members protest near Central Bus Station
ציר גשר המיתרים נחסם בשל הפגנת הפלג הירושלמי@AkivaWeisz pic.twitter.com/M4bSxSbfeY
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) December 22, 2020
Main Road To Tel Aviv Closed
All the Jewish anti-Jews here will bash these protesters, of course, rather than recognize a tiny fraction of the evil of the Zionists in destroying/shmading our brethren under their jackboot.
My understanding is that the Chareidim claim that their learning is more beneficial to the State than serving in the army. If this is indeed the case, would it not make more sense for them to learn on behalf of their colleague than to close roads and demonstrate. Something as askew.
All you idiots bashing these protesters, they are listening to daas torah. You are the quintessential daas baal habaatim hepech daas torah. If you ever seen the so called Jewish state in action, after 2 minutes you’ll understand they despise anything about yiddeshkeit. The zionists murdered well over 6 million neshamos since the beginning of the shmad state.
young punks, who can not understand Torah, so they think they are soooo great and frum. They should have women police ladies rough them up.
Id iots belong in cages and not in beis medreshes.