Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal released after alleged attack by Israeli settlers, army detainment

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1. There really should be a universal body cam requirement in the West Bank and Israeli prisons/detention wings. The IDF, who constantly complains about “pallywood”, should be all about it.

   It’s really interesting how high tech and surveillance focused the IDF is and how rarely we see any videos. With universal conscription and a small population, it’s really hard to believe that the Israeli public actually thinks that any rule of law is being followed when it comes to Palestinians. The least egregious part of what happened but of course he was blindfolded on a cold floor for 24 hours – what’s anyone going to do about it? It’s even better for Bibi that people see being an uppity trouble making director won’t protect you… to the contrary. Ditto being an Israeli peace activist.

2. Got beaten by settlers and then stopped on the way to the hospital by the IDF so they could beat him some more while in custody. I guarantee if it hadn’t caused such immediate global backlash he would still be indefinite detainment forever, or worse

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