RABBI DOV FISCHER: A 3-minute Youtube piece that addresses the incident where an Israeli soldier rapped a Denmark leftist in the mouth; The Tribal Update makes Danish ISMers an offer they can't refuse

A few weeks ago, some leftist Jew-haters from Western Europe flew into Israel to protest against Israeli inhumanity towards the “long-suffering Palestinians” and to promote their calls for an international boycott, divestiture, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.  They flew to Israel, a favorite target for human rights activists, partly because (i) Jew-hatred is endemic in Western Europe, and (ii) it is a lot safer to demonstrate for human rights in Israel than, say, to call for human rights in Arab countries where, G-d forbid, the demonstrators might get seized, imprisoned, sentenced to long years of labor, or even get hanged or shot . . . or get both hanged and shot.

During the recent leftist event in Israel, one Israeli officer at a demonstration lost his cool after one of the demonstrators got into fisticuffs with him and broke two of his fingers.  As a result, the Israeli officer reacted a few minutes later by smacking his rifle into the guy’s face.  It was a mistake, a bad moment in that officer’s very dignified and valorous military career, and he is paying for it, because the moment was caught on a cellphone video, edited so that you see only the soldier’s momentary over-reaction.  The guy who was jabbed in the face, a handsome guy from Denmark, gave interviews for a week, talking about Israeli cruelty.

In this 2-minute, 49-second video from LATMA (the people who produced the “We Are the World” video after the flotilla incident two years ago), a formal apology from Israel.  You do not need to understand Hebrew: there are English titles, and the pictures tell all.  An apology from Israel, a regret that Israel does not treat demonstrators with the same civility and gentility that demonstrators can reliably experience in more civil countries like America, Canada, France, Italy, Australia — and Denmark.