Dozens of yeshiva students demonstrated today in front of the Davidson Center near the Western Wall, where, according to the demonstrators, a gathering of several Christian mission organizations was held.
During the demonstration, the police officers who were there used force against the demonstrators. Eight yeshiva students were arrested. In one case, a policeman was filmed choking one of the students, even though he was not resisting.
In another case, the police grabbed a small boy and threw him to the floor. In another case, a student wearing tefilin (sacred adornments traditionally worn during prayer and religious ceremonies) was filmed being pushed hard by police officcers.

The demonstrators who were there said that it seemed as if the police had been instructed to be firm and even violent. “It doesn’t make sense to us that the police did nothing when extreme left-wing demonstrators blocked the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, but in a protest of a few dozen people in front of Christian mission organizations, they use severe violence against us. This is selective enforcement.”
The Noam party commented: “The police are taking selective action – on the one hand they are accepting the anarchists on the Ayalon Highway and in Balfour Square in Jerusalem, and on the other hand they are violently attacking the demonstrators against the missionaries who did not block a road and did not harm anyone. According to Deputy Minister Maoz’s conversation with the precinct commander, we demand the immediate release of the detainees and that police not approach them with false accusations of violence against policemen when everyone knows that the truth is the exact opposite.”