Israel er opptatt av hets , og mange domfelles for det.
Men de fleste domfelte er "arabere":
"77% of Incitement Charges in Israel Filed Against Arabs, Study Reveals"
(Haaretz 1. august 2022, HELE artikkelen nederst under Kilde)
Og er du rabbiner ... da slipper du unna.
Denne rapporten er særdeles grundig, alle saker 2014 til 2021 er undersøkt av den israelske organisasjonen "Israel Religious Action Center."
Tydeligvis er der forskjell på hets ... som funksjon av avsenders tilhørighet.
Skudeneshavn 1. august 2022
Jan Marton Jensen
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HELE artikkelsen i Haaretz 1. august 2022:
77% of Incitement Charges in Israel Filed Against Arabs, Study Reveals
Or KashtiChen MaanitThe first comprehensive quantitative analysis of Israel's enforcement policy on incitement found yawning gaps in conviction rates and sentences between Arabs and Jews over the past years
Fully 77 percent of all indictments for incitement to violence and racism are filed against Arabs, according to a new study by the Israel Religious Action Center.
The report also found significant gaps in conviction rates and sentences between Arabs and Jews. In addition, it says, prosecutors tended to avoid filing incitement charges against public figures, especially rabbis.
Covering the years 2014 to 2021, the study is based on the Justice Ministry’s replies to freedom of information requests, legal databases and queries to specific law enforcement agencies. This appears to be the first attempt ever to conduct a quantitative analysis of Israel’s enforcement policy on incitement.
“The data clearly show an insufficient enforcement policy,” said the report, which was written by Religious Action Center attorneys Ori Narov and Orly Erez-Likhovsky. The prosecution’s policy on incitement by Jews in particular is “characterized by foot-dragging and delays,” it added.
For instance, the report said, 51 percent of indictments against Arabs were filed within a month of when the alleged violation occurred. In contrast, 42 percent of indictments against Jews were filed one to two years after the incitement occurred, while another 21 percent were filed two to six years later.
Moreover,
all but two of the indictments against Arabs ended in conviction,
compared to only two thirds of the indictments against Jews.
The sentencing gaps were also yawning. While 54 percent of Jews convicted of incitement received no jail time, just 1 percent of Arabs convicted of incitement were spared prison. In contrast, sentences of seven to 11 months were handed down to 59 percent of Arabs and only 25 percent of Jews.
Moreover, in seven of the 13 cases in which Jews were technically sentenced to jail, the courts ruled that the time could be served through community service instead. Community service was granted to just one of the 69 Arabs sentenced to jail time.
Of the 106 indictments covered by the report, 87 ended in conviction. Some of the remainder ended in acquittals; in other cases, no verdict had yet been reached.
The report excluded 22 other indictments filed during the seven years under review because too much relevant information was under a gag order, while in other cases the defendant was a minor.
The report also documented law enforcement agencies’ response – or more often, lack of response – to the center’s requests that public figures be investigated for incitement.
Of the 114 such requests filed by the Religious Action Center
during the seven years covered by the report, 17 received no response
at all and 40 were still being considered. Of the latter, 19 have been
awaiting a decision for more than three years. In roughly half of the
remaining 67 cases, either law enforcement agencies found no grounds for
opening an investigation or the investigation was closed with no
charges filed.
Only eight public figures were actually indicted for incitement during the seven years, of whom six were Arab, the report said. Five of those six were preachers indicted for sermons they gave; the sixth was the poet Dareen Tatour. Tatour was ultimately acquitted over a poem she wrote but convicted on account of two posts on social media.
The two Jews were Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, who was ultimately convicted over essays he published, and Bentzi Gopstein, chairman of the Lehava organization. Gopstein was indicted in 2019 after dozens of complaints had been filed against him. The investigation lasted for years, during which three petitions were filed to the High Court of Justice demanding that the police and prosecution finally make a decision.
The report said the law enforcement system, which is headed by the attorney general, suffers from “a long, thunderous silence about the wild, unbridled incitement of rabbis who pretend to base themselves on Jewish law.” Yet the same is not true of Muslim clerics, it said, demonstrating that the law is not applied equally against Jews and Arabs.
The authors stressed that they are not criticizing the indictment of Arabs who make “grave statements that justified filing indictments, but rather the decision to avoid trials in cases of grave statements by Jewish inciters.”
They also said the prosecution’s flawed enforcement of the laws against incitement has “emptied them of all content in a manner that enables many inflammatory activists to continue inciting as much as they please without being called to account for it. This situation both pollutes the public square and endangers human life.”
A spokesman for the prosecution said he wasn’t familiar with the report and therefore couldn’t comment on the findings, even though Haaretz sent it a copy of the report before seeking a response. “In general, the prosecution makes decisions based on the evidence before it, and any other claim is completely baseless,” the statement added.
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