Dr. Yousef Jabareen, a legal expert and former MK from the Hadash party, claimed that "The continued wave of arrests being carried out by Ben-Gvir's police over the past few weeks has been targeted against Arab youth, specifically students, and constitutes a system of intimidation and suppression."
The news site Kul al-Arab quoted Dr. Jabareen as saying that the arrests have no legal basis and are part of a crusade of suppression against Arab communities, based on "incitement" by right-wing authorities who are taking advantage of the current state of emergency in israel.
He claims that the crusade and the permission given by courts to conduct it, based on requests by the police and prosecution, have no precedent in matters of freedom of speech and publication on social media, and are considered to be targeting legitimate peaceful activities.
Dr. Jabareen blames the police for using the law against terrorism, and specifically the section dealing with identifying with a terrorist organization or incitement to terrorist activity, to justify the arrests, despite the fact that the law does not apply to the current reality and that the publications do not include any supporting, encouraging, or identification with terrorism.
According to the civil rights organization Adalah, from the 7th of October to the 11th of November, 76 indictments were filed against Israeli Arabs, and in each one included a request for extended detention until the end of legal proceedings.
In the majority of the cases, the indictments included accusations of supporting or identifying with a terrorist organization, according to section 24a of the Law of the Fight Against Terror and accusations of incitement to terrorism according to section 24b of the same law.