Honenu is an organization that provides free legal council to Jews of the Right persuasion – specifically those who are persecuted by the government for their beliefs and ideology.

They do an excellent job of getting innocent people out of ‘administrative detentions’, essentially arrest based on ‘secret’ evidence that the arrestee can’t defend himself against.

They do such a great job that the government has decided to start putting the breaks on their activities.

Ariel Gruner from Yitzhar heads the Honenu organization.

Today the government placed him in administrative detention based on secret evidence that he is a threat to the general public and security forces.

I bet he is. Gruner is a successful civil rights activist against government brutality and abuse of right-wingers and our rights. That’s about as dangerous as you can get to a regime like Olmert’s.

Unfortunately, while we all know why Gruner was really arrested, but as the information is ‘secret’ he can’t defend himself in front of judge, so now he sits in jail without charges for at least 3 months.

"We have here an order without a legal process, without proof, without evidence," said Itamar Ben Gvir, settler activist, told Army Radio. "Amir Peretz is behaving like a dictator."

"His arrest crosses the red line," Gvir said. "It is not clear why the champions of human rights and democracy are being silent now."

Baruch Marzel said that left-wing civil rights activists should be very worried (I disagree, they don’t need to worry at all – yet). But could it be despite their claims to liberalism, free speech, and civil rights for all, they actually only demand it for those that think like them? (Oh come on, we already all know the answer to that).

Sources: Ha'aretz Arutz-7 Ynet