Well, no, actually, the police arrested the people in question and nothing else happened. These are Jews, not Muslims, after all.
Shocked and repulsion seem the best words to describe the collective feelings of Haifa’s police reconnaissance unit upon entering an apartment in their city on Saturday night only to find pages torn from a prayer book being used as toilet paper.
Six suspects between the ages of 18-20 were brought before the Haifa Magistrate’s Court on Sunday morning as police requested their arrest be extended for questioning.
Over the past few months a number of graffiti-sprayed swastikas and hate slogans had appeared on the walls of buildings around Allenby St. and in the Kiryat Eliezer, Bat Galim and Hadar neighborhoods of the city. Police are presently investigating a possible connection to the suspects currently in their custody.
They’re recent Russian immigrants. There’s a controversy over Russian immigrants that Snoopy could probably elaborate on far better than I, but a significant number of Russians who immigrated to Israel have no background in Judaism, and picked up the disgusting habits of their fellow Russians—the ones responsible for the Settlement of the Pale and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Israel has a neo-Nazi problem, and it’s mostly Russian youths. Like the ones arrested for defacing prayer books and terrorizing their neighbors.
Fortunately, Israel has begun to recognize that is has this problem, and is working to resolve it.
Just as you have a no anti-semite policy on your web site, Israel should have the same policy and deport these SOBs straight back to the Ukraine or where ever they come from. I believe a nice one strike policy would nip most of this type jackassery in the bud.