A reminder that Israelis and Palestinians who commit the same crime face radically different consequences. Minutes before an Israeli military judge signed off on Ahed Tamimi’s plea deal last week, something unexpected happened inside Israel’s Ofer Military Court. A Jewish Israeli activist rose from the back benches, approached the military prosecutor, slapped him across the face, and yelled, “who are you to judge her?” Despite the fact that the Jewish Israeli activist slapped a soldier in an area ruled by military law — inside a military court, no less — she was brought to an Israeli civilian court and released.
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