"Israeli arrested for wearing a yarmulke with Palestine flag Officers cut the symbol out of spiritual headgear and then returned it to a man, complains Alex Sinclair"

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ARCHIVAL PHOTO: hebrew in Jarmulka. © Getty Images / Thomas Banneyer

A lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reported that he was detained by the police for wearing jarmulkes with the flags of Israel and Palestine.

Alex Sinclair wrote on Thursday on Facebook that he had worn a yarmulka for 20 years due to the fact that "an obscure ambivalent Jewish-Zionist identity” and that was never a problem for him.

But a fewer days ago in a cafe in his hometown of Modi’in in central Israel a man approached him and said that his yarmulk was illegal and that he would call the police, he wrote.

Officers arrived about 5 minutes later. “They immediately tell me that my yarmulka is illegal and that they will confiscate it” Sinclair mentioned it.

The lecturer said he refused to quit the headgear because ‘it meant so much to him’, and was yet stopped.

He was released quickly, but the police tried to halt the yarmulka.

When he demanded her return, the officer returned her to him only after cutting off the Palestinian flag from the headgear, the educator wrote.

This symbol is not illegal under Israeli law.

"It is hard not to say that this is what fascist regimes do" – stressed Sinclair, adding that there is "concerned, anxious and frankly devastated that Israel is going in this direction."

He said he filed a complaint with the interior Police Investigation Department (DIPI), demanding compensation for the destroyed yarmulka and "a written commitment that I will be able to walk with her on Modi’in without fear of harassment".

Police confirmed that they had briefly detained a man for carrying the Palestinian flag, but refrained from further comments.

Since Israel began a military operation in the Gaza Strip in consequence to the deadly Hamas invasion in October 2023, police powers to enforce public order have been importantly expanded and many cases of removal and confiscation of Palestinian flags by officers are noted.

Data from the Palestinian wellness authorities show that over 72,000 people have been killed and over 172,000 injured in the last 3 years as a consequence of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.

Translated by Google Translator

source:https://www.rt.com/news/639012-israel-kippah-palestinate-flag/

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