The police banned Temple Mount activist Haim Brosh from the Jerusalem holy site for 15 days, Wednesday evening, following his alleged posting of a Photoshopped picture on Facebook which shows a pig drinking water there with the caption, "The Israeli government allows live pigs to control the holiest place for the Jewish people and all of them cry out at the pig's head in the grave of the righteous in anti-Semitic Europe?"
The decision followed Brosh being detained for questioning on suspicion of insulting a religion. Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir intends to appeal the conditions of the ban. He compared Brosh's arrest in the middle of the night to activities of Iran, Syria and other non-democratic countries. He also noted that a student who was questioned in connection with a picture of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with a noose in front of his face at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem was released without restrictions.