Tel Aviv, Israel – The gag order on any information pertaining to the deadly shooting at a gay youth center in Tel Aviv on Saturday is hurting the ultra-Orthodox public, a haredi journalist claimed in court papers.
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Moshe Glasner, editor of the Kikar HaShabbat website, filed a petition with the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court asking that the order be lifted.
“The incitement and propaganda campaign against the ultra-orthodox public that has been raging in recent days is being carried out under the auspices of a police-issued injunction,” Glasner claimed in his appeal.
“Under this order it is forbidden to disclose any detail that might indicate that the haredi public had nothing to do with this heinous crime, either directly or indirectly,” he stated.
“This fact is being exploited for the purpose of launching an unprecedented incitement campaign against the haredim,” he added.
The appeal further read: “The petitioner is an ultra-Orthodox journalist and editor of Kikar HaShabbat website who believes it is his duty to act against the character assassination being carried out by certain elements in Israel against the haredi public, which is being turned into the punching bag of the entire Israeli society.”
21th century pogrom!
Police often withhold information when conducting an investigation. For obvious reasons, while they are still searching for a murderer, its not a good idea to release information about their theories and possible suspects. While sometimes it helps an investigation to release some information, that really should be up to the police to decide. The information can come out after the perp is identified and arrested. The priority now should be catching this person.
If the Haredis want to rehabilitate their image, there are plenty of things they can do, including condemning this violent act and refraining from rioting and disparaging others who do not follow their life styles.
The only reason the Hareidi community is suspect is because of their history of violent behavior against those with whom they disagree on matters of shabbos, tzinus, gay lifestyle, etc. If they would “clean up” their own mess internally and punish those within their olam who engage in this disgusting behavior against other yiddin who are fully in compliance with the laws of EY, they wouldn’t be suspect, They brought this on themselves.
The wildness and hostility and the screaming and rampaging and the rioting of the Charedim at recent protests over the parking lot issue and over the indicted mother issue, are going to haunt and hurt the Charedim for years.
Their perhaps justified frustration should have been displayed in an orderly, respectful manner and they could have gained greatly if they had been more menshlach.
This attitude by the police about the gay bar killings, is only the first of many opportunities the government will have to avenge the way the Charedim hurt themselves, and the police, and the store owners and ordinary citizens. They made a big stink and now they will begin to smell it.
(it was a club for people who mostly weren’t “out” yet, how would a religious person even know to find such a place?).
I they wanted to find out they would, please.
The police in the usa and Israel release information or do not depending on the investigation to help them apprehend the perpetrator.
The ultra-Orthodox can easily quite the public with a statement and action.
We are outrage at this act of violence, and will offer any help to investigators to apprehend this murderer. We do not think that any member of our community would do such a horrible thing, However, in the unlikely event that is was someone in our community, we will inform the police of his/her whereabouts so they can be brought to justice.
If the ultra-Orthodox do not say the last part all the comments will fall or deaf ears since everybody knows how the ultra-Orthodox protects its members no matter what the person did.
Maybe they should stop calling Jewish police officers Nazi’s and stope calling hard working doctors (even frum ones) Mengele. That might help their image.
#5 ‘chreidim’ yidden will be around long after non-believing will be assimilated into the other nations of the world, because thats the end results of mocking the torah
are you all deranged?how many charedim were at the hafgana and how many were violent?what do the majority of charedim have with toldoth aharon other than simchath bais hashovea?you are either clueless or a mo charedi basher
This is really basic. If the police want, they can reveal that the suspect(s) is/are not members of a particular community. If the public is rising up against the chareidi community and the police can quell this they should do so immediately. What chareidim may or may not have done in the past is not relevant. For police to act a particular way in case #2 to punish a group for their actions in case #1 is immoral and disgusting. The police should know better and quit their pettiness. Agav, if their is a significant reason based on “this” case itself to keep the information private, then I 100% agree that they should do so.
It was most probably an ex-lover on a crazed revenge
Nobody sees the irony here? The Chareidim are all bent out of shape because the gay community jumped to an immediate conclusion with regard to a crime about which they had little or no information…
Didn’t the Chareidi community jump to an immediate conclusion with regard to a crime (the starving mom) about which they had little or no information?
Boruch Goldstein shot up the arabs not Jews…get your head on straight
“The gag order on any information pertaining to the deadly shooting at a gay youth center in Tel Aviv on Saturday is hurting the ultra-Orthodox public,”
And why do you think the secular anti-orthodox police issued a gag order?
Precisely!
How do we know that this wasn’t done by an arab terrorist?
In the week leading up to this shocking murder in Tel Aviv, it was being reported widely around the world media (eg the Murdoch-owned newspapers) that the actor who played the lead role in the film “Bruno” (Sacha Baron-Cohen) had been warned by security agencies that there might be an imminent Islamist attack in “revenge” for his “humiliation” of the “Palestinian militant leader” whom he interviewed in Lebanon in the BRUNO film- and the media were reporting that Baron-Cohen was taking extra personal security precautions.
Have the police in Tel Aviv looked into this issue as a possible lead (i.e. as to whether the Tel Aviv massacre was the actual attack foreshadowed in the tip-off to Baron-Cohen’s handlers)?