While police tackle Arab inciters, are Jews given a free pass?

Source: Times of Israel, August 7, 2016

On the same July night, at the same time, a Jewish-Israeli declared he would kill Arabs and an Arab-Israeli declared he would kill Jews. The declarations were made on Facebook. Each told their followers they sought revenge for crimes against their community.

A few hours later, the post by the Jewish-Israeli had received more than 1,000 likes, 34 shares and numerous comments in support of his words. The post by the Arab-Israeli received a total of seven likes, and he was immediately contacted by family and friends to ask him what’s wrong. The next day, the police came knocking on the Arab man’s door and he went to a police station for questioning. No police ever contacted the Jewish man.

The above scenario actually took place, but as part of an experiment by Israel’s Channel 10 that aired on July 9. The report highlighted an accusation made by human rights groups that Israeli police only crackdown on incitement by Arabs against Jews, but Jews are left free to threaten Arabs over the internet without fear of legal retribution.

The Israeli police told The Times of Israel they have investigated Jews for incitement, and operate based on the “security assessment” of each case. Additionally, a police spokesperson argued there is “no comparison whatsoever” between the threat of Jewish incitement towards Arabs and Arab incitement towards Jews, with hundreds of actual Arab attackers inspired by social media over the past nine months.

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