Political commentator Amit Segal spoke on Wednesday about a protest by the Jerusalem Faction and the police violence used to disperse it. He accused authorities of selective enforcement against the ultra-Orthodox group and said the issue is not the protest itself but the unequal way laws are applied.
Segal opened by calling the Jerusalem Faction “an extreme and fanatical sect.” He said blocking roads is “a criminal, thuggish act that somehow became normalized here,” but added that police enforcement cannot be based on disgust toward a group.
He argued that police violence directed at one offender but not another is “improper selective enforcement.” Segal said, “We all know what would happen here if such violence were directed at Kaplan,” referring to the protest site in Tel Aviv. He also criticized the lack of media coverage of the disparity, saying it was “no less disgusting” than the gap between praise some gave National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for the stun grenade thrower in Ayalon and the shock expressed Wednesday morning over stun grenades being thrown.
Segal concluded that the discrimination in enforcement, reporting, and reactions is “disgusting” and that “nothing is relevant.”
