Protesters from the “Front for the Liberation of South Tel Aviv” placed mannequins of decapitated people on the doorsteps of former Supreme Court chief justice Aharon Barak, retired Supreme Court justice Uzi Vogelman, and Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, the group confirmed on Friday.
The mannequins also had messages expressing discontent with the current state of illegal immigrants in Israel, claiming that they are the cause of a rise in violent crime rates.
On the doll in front of Barak’s house was the message, “You boasted about abolishing the infiltration laws. We got decapitated heads.” At Vogelman’s house, the sign said, “You wanted hobbies. We got decapitated heads.”
Huldai’s mannequin had a sign that read, “You said a person is a person is a person. We got decapitated heads.”
Group protests illegal immigrants in southern Tel Aviv neighborhoods
The protest was centered around a November crime in the Tel Aviv neighborhood of Kiryat Shalom, where a man was killed in a public park and found decapitated by the police.
The group said that the protest “was born out of a deep sense of distress and anger among residents of the city’s southern neighborhoods.”
“Their compassion is our disaster. There is no reason why we should be the only ones enjoying the cultural wealth that was forced upon us,” said the group in a statement.
The chairman of the movement, Sheffi Paz, said: “A resident of Kiryat Shalom said that she can no longer take her dog for a walk in the park in fear of getting jumped by an infiltrator with a machete. A child in the Shapira neighborhood said he can no longer play in the garden for fear that the children of infiltrators will lynch him.”