10.11.17

6:10 PM  Downtown Jerusalem

The heavily armed Israeli police on the corner, as they often are, holding a young Palestinian man against the car. He was agitated, but not actively resisting. Police were violently
asserting their power over him, claiming his space, making demands. As is often the case, Palestinians need not be doing anything in actual violation of the "law" to be detained. As
the police pressed him, he became more agitated, pulling away when they went to physically put his hands on him. The police took him to the back of the vehicle and began to crowd him,
similar to how US police do when they are trying to agitate you into an excuse for them to pounce. Being handled unjustly, the young Palestinian man did not submit, thus was violently
brought to ground by at least 4 Israelis and cuffed.

You can see it in them, these Israeli fascist pigs. They live for the violence of oppression. You are not seen as human enough to even speak. The inhumanity they can treat Palestinians with makes them
salivate. You can see it in everything they do. I don't know that there are truly words to describe the enraging violation of ones sovereignty they employ.

As a crowd formed, 2 additional officers arrived aggressively threatening those young men who got too close. The police often dragged the young cuffed man with them. He was eventually
placed in the police van.

At some point, a former colleague walked by. I caught her out of the corner of my eye, but really had no desire to say hello her anymore than she had no desire to actually look at the
commotion. She just turned her head away and kept walking. You see, this individual left the country with a tourist visa last year, and then was surprised they wouldn't let her back in,
fucking over her coworkers in the process. SO, she came back on an aliyah visa. An aliyah visa...
She didn't say shit to me either probably because she knew how I'd react, even when we got on the bus to Bethlehem. The Liberal Zionist™ spending time in Palestinian areas is another conversation altogether...

I took a nap for about an hour when I got home. I woke up with these intense feelings of anger and fear.