A cake arrived at Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara's door Thursday morning with a letter thanking her for supporting protesters.
The delivery was sent by members of the "Jerusalem Faction," a hardline anti-Zionist haredi faction best known for blocking roads to protest the arrests of draft dodgers.
On the cake was a picture depicting a police officer spraying a haredi demonstrator in the face with a "Skunk" malodorant riot-dispersal hose.
The intention of the Jerusalem Faction, whose members frequently suffer from police brutality at demonstrations, was to take a shot at the Attorney General amid her decisions that support anti-government protesters.
The letter, which was sent by "The Union for Haredi Rights," titled "Your strong stand for the freedom to demonstrate and to restrain the police," stated: "In light of your amazing enlistment for the freedom of protest, we present you with this gift from our organization. As an organization that aids victims of police brutality and the prosecution's maltreatment of protesters against the abolition of the draft exemption for yeshiva students, we thank you for your work for those protesters."
The letter, published by Hadrei Haredim, continues: "These protesters, whose only sin was to block a thoroughfare, without any violence, were still regularly subjected to police brutality, which even caused many injuries. The police brutality included, but was not limited to, spraying water with blue dye and skunk malodorant by using a water cannon directly at protesters at high pressure, spraying maloderant on protesters, including children, using a personal tank and hose, using noise machines, trampling protesters with horses, using tasers, mace, and stun grenades, wild beatings with clubs, tossing demonstrators, choking them, threats with guns, and thousands of detainees."
In addition, it stated: "The prosecution's mistreatment included but was not limited to, hundreds of indictments and requests for detention until the end of the judicial process, summoning the organizers to interrogations, authorization to stop buses on their way to demonstrations, and of course closing cases against officers in the police internal investigations department. Because of this, we were happy to hear that following a long and in-depth discussion on the issue, you concluded that the protesters, who acted lawfully and calmly, were right."
The letter concluded: "We hope that the severe injustice done to them will be fixed, an institutionalized injustice, on the part of the prosecution, the police, and the media. We thank you for expressing your stance, which corresponds with the stance of The Union for Haredi Rights."