The Israeli police appealed late Wednesday to the Tel Aviv prosecutor's office with a request to open an investigation against Arab students from Tel Aviv University, who held a demonstration in support of the terrorists that the IDF acted against in Jenin about two weeks ago.
After a rally on the Tel Aviv campus where some participants appeared to be supporting terrorists and even calling for more attacks against Israelis, activists from the Zionist "Im Tirtzu" movement turned over videos they had recorded to the police and filed a complaint. Ten days after the incident, police officials said that they had indeed examined the material that was handed over to the Investigations Division, and a request was submitted to the prosecutor's office to open an investigation against the demonstrators on suspicion of the offenses of incitement to violence and support for terrorism.
Today at the Tel Aviv University there was a hypocritical protest by the Arab students there who were protesting against the IDF operation that took place in Jenin last week,
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Well Yoseph Haddad went there & tore them a new one. They didnt know what hit them, the hurricane!
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About a week and a half ago, a few days after the operation to arrest Jihadists in Jenin by the Israel Defense Forces in which militants tried ambushing the soldiers leading to a battle that killed 9 Palestinians, dozens of students protested at the entrance to Tel Aviv University. The activists were waving pictures of the terrorists who were killed in the military activity and chanting "In the name of national unity, we will not stop even if there are a thousand funerals every day".
In addition to that chant, the group was also repeating the slogans, "The Al Aqsa Gate is made of steel, no one will open it" and "with spirit and blood we redeem Palestine". Other chants heard at the demonstration were in Arabic, such as "listen Zionists, listen Palestine, you will not surrender, to the streets, revolutionaries, set the streets on fire" and "O martyr, lie down, lie down, we will continue the struggle."
Arab students hold pro-terror protest at Tel Aviv University: Dozens of Israeli-Arab students laud Islamic Jihad terrorists killed in Jenin, call for new intifada during demonstration at Tel Aviv U. https://t.co/G1mhxGnjye ArutzSheva pic.twitter.com/z24ZsuvplL
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Activists of the "Im Tirtzu" movement documented the outrageous demonstration and counter-protested with Israeli flags. Due to the reports, MK Almog Cohen from Itamar Ben Gvir’s party arrived at the scene and said he came to inspect the conduct of the police at the scene; he later snatched a Palestinian flag from the hand of one of the demonstrators. The demonstrators also hurled statements at him.
Shai Rosengarten, head of the Im Tirtzu movement's education department at Tel Aviv University said that he and his friends: "Demand that the supporters of the terrorists be banned immediately. Students who demonstrate in favor of terrorists should be removed from the street immediately, this is a life-threatening situation for students."
IIsraeli Knesset member Almog Cohen attacked a student demonstration at Tel Aviv university on Monday that was expressing solidarity with Jenin after an Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank killed nine Palestinians on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/qjDxX5v1b9
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The National Union of Male and Female Students announced after that demonstration that the union "condemns the demonstration of support for terrorism that took place this morning at the entrance to Tel Aviv University. We call for a thorough investigation of the incident and full justice for the protesters. This was a call to violence and incitement that goes beyond the limits of freedom of speech. There is no place for supporting terrorism in academic institutions in Israel ".
