“Police arrived at my house with a warrant and started flipping things over,” he tweeted. “Police officers are in my house at midnight after a day of harassing me.”שוטרים בבית בחצות הלילה אחרי יום שלם של טרטורים pic.twitter.com/3VJkN9Mx5E
— yehudah glick (@YehudahGlick) February 18, 2020
Honenu attorney Adi Keidar, who is representing the former MK, said that the police acted aggressively rather than just picking up the phone and asking Glick if he had inadvertently picked up the documents. He said that from the moment police entered his home, Glick cooperated with police and told investigators he did not know about which papers they were referring. Despite Glick’s insistence that he did not have the requested documents, Keidar said, officers spent an hour “turning his home upside down” in search of the documents. When they could not find them, they once again brought his client in for questioning.“The Israel Police are once again demonstrating impulsive and problematic behavior,” Keidar concluded, “all in light of the fact that the arrest made earlier in the day was false and embarrassed the police.”Several Knesset members defended their former colleague, including Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, who called the police’s conduct “violent” and “contemptible.“It cannot be that in the State of Israel police detain a person because he walks too slowly in their eyes,” Edelstein tweeted. “It cannot be that they harass a man in the middle of the night just on a suspicion. It cannot be that human rights can just be cast aside willy-nilly.”Glick has been one of the most prominent figures fighting for improved visiting conditions for Jewish and non-Muslim visitors to the Temple Mount, which is considered the holiest site in the Jewish tradition. He runs the Shalom Jerusalem Foundation, which aims to make the Temple Mount a center of peace, as described in the Torah.In 2014, Glick was shot in the chest at point-blank range by a Palestinian terrorist for his activism. He narrowly survived the assassination attempt.“I will continue the completely just struggle to make the Temple Mount a house of prayer for all nations, without any discrimination against anyone,” Glick said Wednesday. “I call on the public from Israel and the world to join the global campaign my Shalom Jerusalem Foundation has launched, which includes posting and tweeting with the hashtag #TempleMount4all.”החיפוש בעיצומוכל הבית באיפור של הילדה במכונת הכביסה pic.twitter.com/Oj59IF2S4n
— yehudah glick (@YehudahGlick) February 18, 2020