Isr@eli police detained a Jewish man — not for a crime, but for what he wore on his head.
Alex Sinclair, 53, a Hebrew University lecturer, was sitting at a cafe in Modiin when a stranger shouted that his kippah — embroidered with both the Israeli and P@lestini@n flags — was "Against the Law". Then he called the police.
Officers arrived. They told him the kippah was illegal. They confiscated it. They took him to the station.
Sinclair says he was frisked. Locked in a cell. No water. No phone. For 20 minutes.
When they finally released him, he demanded his kippah back. What he got was a mutilated relic.
"The P@lestini@n flag had been cut out", he wrote on Facebook. "She had taken my possession, a religious ritual object, something dear to my heart, and destroyed it".
Isr@eli police confirmed the detention — but made no mention of the flags or the damaged kippah. They said only that he was held "Following a Clarification Process".
Sinclair says the kippah represents his belief that "P@lestinians, like the Jews, are a people with a right to self-determination."
He's filed a complaint for unlawful detention and property damage. And he vows to wear a new joint-flag kippah — as soon as possible. 🧢
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