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  • Still too ‘tough on Arabs’ - Haaretz Editorial - Israel News | Haaretz.com
    Police violence against the Arab community in Israel appears part of a racist policy led by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government

    Haaretz Editorial May 21, 2018

    https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/still-too-tough-on-arabs-1.6098764

    Over the weekend there was a demonstration in Haifa protesting the killings along the Gaza border fence. The violent suppression of this protest and the detention of 21 demonstrators, including Jafar Farah, the director of the Mossawa Center that advocates for Israeli Arabs’ rights, are a further sign of the growing restrictions on the democratic space available to this community.
    The harsh events in Gaza should have brought multitudes out onto the streets, particularly in light of the complexities plaguing relations between Arab citizens and the state. In practice, the protest in Arab society was minor and measured: a partial strike lasting only a day and local protest gatherings. Despite this, the police failed to contain the demonstrations.
    True, the protest in Haifa on Friday evening had no permit, but these are precisely the times when the police must use their discretion and show restraint. They should have used the presence of Farah, a veteran activist who once headed the Arab student union and who for years has been a partner to civic initiatives for Arab civil rights and against racism. A wise police force would have seen his presence as a channel for dialogue and an opportunity for calming tensions. Instead, the police used him to quell the protest.
    In footage taken at the demonstration one sees that the police did not suffice with arresting him but marched him handcuffed through Haifa’s streets as a warning to others. Even though Farah was seen walking, he was hospitalized the next day; relatives said one of his knees had been broken in detention.
    The Arab community is calling for an investigation into the police’s conduct in the demonstration, and the police are expected to carry out an internal probe into the Farah case. But this doesn’t suffice; the violence by the police against Arab protesters appears not random but intentional, part of an inflammatory and racist policy against the Arab community in Israel that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is leading.
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    Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich talk a lot about the importance of making police services more accessible to the Arab community, using every public platform to announce the opening of new police stations and the recruitment of Arab police officers. But the conduct in Haifa shows yet again that the police showed unwarranted “resolve” while ignoring the ramifications on the Arab community’s faith in law enforcement.
    The Public Security Ministry and police brass must understand that the delegitimization of elected Arab officials and prominent Arab activists, as well as the suppression of any political protest by brutal arrests, won’t contribute to a sense of trust. On the contrary, police violence against Arab citizens widens the circle of mutual suspicion and deepens this community’s alienation.

    • By +972 Blog |Published May 21, 2018
      ’Police broke my knee, threatened my doctors,’ Arab civil society leader tells court
      By Oren Ziv, Yael Marom, and Meron Rapaport
      https://972mag.com/police-broke-my-knee-threatened-my-doctors-arab-civil-society-leader-tells-court/135621

      Seven require medical treatment for injuries sustained during their arrests or while in custody, including Jafar Farah, who says an officer broke his knee inside the police station. Police file criminal complaint against Arab MK Ayman Odeh for calling the officers who refused to let him visit a hospitalized protester ‘losers’.
      (...)
      “But we shouldn’t be surprised by police violence and this isn’t that big a story,” Atrash continued. “What are a few punches compared to the murder of children in Gaza? What’s important is that all of us in Haifa, Gaza, Ramallah or Beirut — we are one. We don’t want nicer police officers, we want the apartheid regime to end.”
      (...)
      ”The demonstration on Friday was the third to take place in Haifa last week, and police had already employed aggressive tactics to try to shut them down. In addition to several arrests at the protests themselves, police arrested and detained a number of Palestinian and Jewish activists in Haifa to deter them from participating in and organizing protests.

      #Jafar_Farah

  • Palestinian Siblings Killed After Alleged Attack at Qalandiyah to Undergo Autopsy -
    Lawyer says Taha family does not object to the autopsy as long as the bodies are handed over for burial immediately afterwards.
    Jack Khoury May 08, 2016
    http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.718590

    Forensics experts will autopsy the bodies of siblings Maram Ismail, 26, and Ibrahim Taha, 16, shot to death at Qalandiyah checkpoint last month by private security guards after one of them allegedly threw a knife Israeli forces.

    The autopsy is scheduled to take place on Tuesday.

    Naila Attiya, the family’s lawyer, said the family has no objections to the autopsy as long as the bodies are handed over for burial immediately afterwards. The family is also demanding to see security camera footage of the events. Israel has refused both requests.

    The Taha family, citing witnesses, has contested Israel’s version of events of the April 27 shootings, citing witnesses.
    Scene of Qalandiyah checkpoint where the Palestinian siblings were killed on April 27, 2016Ahmad Gharabli/AFP

    Israeli police said at the time that at least one of the two had pulled out a knife or thrown one, and that they both refused orders to come to a halt at the checkpoint.

    Police later said that private security guards rather than police had shot the two and that they were looking into the possibility the shooting was carried out in violation of regulations. On Thursday a judge imposed a gag order on the details of the investigation.

    Guards hired from private security firms by the Public Security Ministry are routinely assigned to checkpoints leading from the West Bank into Israel, working alongside police, border police and army troops. Most of the private guards don’t come in contact with the Palestinian population at the checkpoints. They are generally stationed behind concrete positions and are there to protect the police and army personnel.

    Ismail was a mother of two girls aged 4 and 5.

    #Maram_et_Ibrahim

  • NYPD chief: Anti-Arab hate crimes in Israel are ’terrorism’ -
    Haaretz, By Matthew Kalman | May 13, 2014 |
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.590427

    Bill Bratton, the New York City Police Commissioner whose radical policies in the 1990s under Mayor Rudy Giuliani are credited with making the streets of New York City safer, urged Israeli police chiefs on Tuesday to stamp out as “terrorism” the anti-Arab hate crimes known as price tag attacks.

    The commissioner was in Israel participating in the Public Security Ministry’s Violence Prevention Week.

    “I’ve discussed these ’price tag’ attacks with Israeli police officials in the past few days and I know the debate here is, Do you treat it as terrorism or do you treat it as vandalism?” Bratton told Haaretz.

    “It is a form of terrorism. It is all about creating hate,” Bratton said.

  • 1500 millions USD de ventes, une amende de 10 millions maximum, GSK se frotte les mains et s’en va recruter des prostitué(e)s,

    Police Say Sexual Favors Spur $1.5 Billion Glaxo China Sales - Bloomberg
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-16/sexual-favors-spur-glaxo-s-1-5-billion-china-sales-police-say.html

    GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK)’s (GSK) sales in China jumped 20 percent to about 1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) last year, almost quadruple the pace of growth across its emerging markets. Police say bribes and sexual favors spurred the gain.

    The drugmaker now faces allegations of economic crimes involving 3 billion yuan ($489 million) of spurious travel and meeting expenses, and trade in sexual favors, the Public Security Ministry said yesterday. The allegations are “shameful” and would be a breach of the company’s systems and values, Glaxo said in a statement.

    Prior to a police probe that began last month, Glaxo embarked on a strategy that tripled its Chinese sales force to more than 4,000 people in three years as the U.K.’s largest drugmaker sought a bigger share of the market. As that expansion was ramping up, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty told analysts on a February 2010 conference call that controlling Glaxo’s operations in China was “not a trivial proposition.”

    Bribes paid to hospitals, doctors and health officials contributed to the resulting gains in revenue, according to the ministry, which controls China’s police. If found guilty, Glaxo could be ordered to pay a penalty of $5 million to $10 million, according to estimates by Kepler Capital Markets based on fines paid in China for similar violations.

    That’d be a fraction of its sales in China, the world’s fastest-growing major pharmaceutical market, said Fabian Wenner, a Kepler Capital health-care analyst in Zurich.

    “While being involved in criminal offenses and associated with illegal actions is clearly damaging for GSK’s reputation, I doubt that this will be of material impact for the company,” Wenner said in an interview yesterday. “I haven’t spoken to any investor who is concerned about this yet.”

    Glaxo fell 0.9 percent to 1,728.50 pence as of 11:50 a.m. in London trading. The stock has risen 29 percent this year, compared with a 17 percent gain in the Bloomberg Europe Pharmaceutical Index.