Orwell, 2011: “These weren’t child arrests.”

Dimi Reider By Dimi Reider May 26, 2011 | Edit

The headline comes from a response issued by the Interior Ministry in Israel to baseless accusations by self-hating activists, who brazenly claimed ministry officials yesterday swooped on the homes of 9 migrant families and arrested 9 mothers with their children, aged 18 months to three years, to begin processing them for deportation.

In line with the ministry’s statement, I would like to ask you not to watch the video below. It plainly shows members of the Ministry’s “Oz” Unit not taking a young Philippine  mother down the stairs of her home, with her three-year-old daughter not toddling beside her. It then proceeds not to show the sizeable force not dispatched to not detain this dangerous pair not forcing them to get into a car, not preventing them from even saying goodbye to neighbors.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEiEg9kUMto[/youtube]

Likewise, this screen grab from the same ministry’s Population Immigration and Authority official Facebook page very clearly does not show them posting the news report of the arrest , and then “liking” their own post, making it seem, as one commenter stated, that they delight in the hunt of human beings.

Orwell, 2011:

Nothing to see, folks, move right along.

Dimi Reider

Dimi (Dmitry) Reider is an Israeli journalist.  His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books,  The New York Times,The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Haaretz,  Jerusalem Post, and  Index on Censorship. "Dimi's Notes" has been quoted and referenced by the following publications:

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