The article does not dehumanize Israelis. The Israeli police officers who carried out this action dehumanized themselves.

No Palestinian, outside the small renegade group who kidnapped and murdered the three Israeli teenagers, believe that such actions are acceptable or commendable.

On the other hand, many Israelis, including the Prime Minister, have called for vengeance and retaliation, rather than justice. As a result, six Palestinians were killed by the IDF in the hunt for the missing teenagers and their abductors, and this was followed by the burning alive of Muhammed Abu Khudair, cousin of Tariq.

The indiscriminate launching of rockets from Gaza into Israel is a terrorist act that has been criticised by Electronic Intifada.

The beating to unconsciousness of a 15 year-old lying handcuffed on the ground, and the denial for five hours of medical treatment and parental access, are serious human-rights violations, and are not a laughing matter.

Please read the comments policy of Electronic Intifada. A range of views is welcome. The grounds on which comments may be moderated is clearly explained.

State sanctioned police brutality happens in Israel and the US, Palestinians just fight back more than people of all colors in the US. Nobody entertains illusions of still being "ok" - Israeli and Palestinians are flush with activists across the spectrum. On the contrary, the US has a dangerously high percentage of simply indifferent fools unfazed by the plight of their fellow Americans.

It's unbearable when they go off on any body else's police brutality.

And this story is horrible - I don't care how many Arabs sit on Israel's Supreme Court! Sounds like he may be a "Judge Thomas" - doubt he is a "Thurgood Marshall!"

Get back on topic. This is an American child that we see getting beaten while handcuffed after supposedly throwing stones. This kid is 100 pounds soaking wet and could not have possibly threatened these grown men. This is the way you treat all Palestinians, including children and it turns out this one was an American and now the spin comes. Explain what happened here and quit trying to spin it
. Nobody is buying your B.S. troll.

What does the Jewish faith teach? What does Islam teach? The ultimate aim is humanity. The preachers of most religions today are lost and confined to protecting their own specific groups. We should take a minute out of our time and reflect upon our actions which are murdering humanity. For example: The death of a Muslim/Jew is not the death of a muslim/jew its the death of a mother's son some body's daughter, father, mother, wife husband. etc. Instead of muslims rejoicing the death of a Jew or Jews rejoicing the death of a muslim if both were to think that a human being who once lived has been deprived of his life. The amount of hearts he has left behind which are bleeding in pain, those hearts will come to terms with the death of that specific loved one but will always have a deep sigh of that painful breath. That deep sigh will remain with them till death, That deep sigh is a silent curse of a human being.How do we go to mosques and how do we go to synagogues and pray with poisons in our hearts.If we were to approach 2 mothers who have lost a child. A Jewish mother and a Muslim mother. I can assure you the pain is the same, the never filling hollowness is identical too, the tears are the same colour. The pain of sitting besides her sons grave who she was banking on becoming the source of help in her old age is exactly the same too.Moses and Mohammed both were examples of humanity,love and consideration. A human being who is hurt and is in pain is a HUMAN BEING HURT AND IN PAIN not a Jewish boy or a Muslim boy. The ultimate goal of religion is humanity, once we understand this concept then the death of a human being will be felt by all groups and beliefs. Next time going to the Mosque or Synagogue lets find the ultimate goal of humanity rather than being a good Muslim or a good Jew lets be good human beings as humanity is universal. Peace and love to the deprived JEWISH AND MUSLIM relatives who have lost loved ones - we are all one we are all HUMAN BEINGS

Wtheck are you serious those jewish terrorist beat the heck out of a littleg boy and your gonna sit here and defend those fin jews? he's an american citizen and just because he's muslim doesn't make him a "palestinian terrorist" you need to go educate your self they are the terrorists but no when you hear a muslim doing aomething wrong then he's ag terrorist but when u hear a jew or a christian doin something wrong then hes not a terrorist ?

Dehumanize Israelis? Your cops nearly beat this kid to death, murdered and burned another one, spent an extra ten days (after the Israeli kids were found) beating and killing Palestinians. You're a liar or delusional or a paid poster

Criticizing the Palestinians for their lack of civilian infrastructure is exactly the same thing as the white US Southerners criticizing Blacks for not having developed a robust economy complete with black CEOs, judges, and lawyers -- which they frequently do as "evidence" of black incompetence hence a justification for continued white dominance. Like you display here , there seems to be a psychological defence mechanism that compartmentalizes and hides away information that complicates their narrative first justifying slavery (a form of "Naqba"), then the Jim Crow laws that have been used the same way the Israeli legal system is used against Palestinians.....to keep them both from ever enjoying their constitutional rights, from owning businesses capable of competing against their own, and especially from ever obtaining a fair hearing in a legal system weighted heavily in the dominant races favor. Like you, the simple fact that they got a hearing is used as "proof" of both Israeli and plantation owner's righteousness. Like the New York Times (under the pro-Zionist Sulzberger family) the Israeli media (eg. Jerusalem Post), their medias are predisposed to believe whichever side makes the case that those dominating the others aren't part of the evil society that continues to lies to itself so they never have to admit to, or atone for, the gigantic crime that both the early Zionists and slave-owners conducted, and whose children now enjoy.

I came across this article from a posting by a Jewish friend. I am neither Jewish or Muslim. The story is about police violence perpetrated against a minor. It's about a culture of impunity that has grown as apartheid has been enabled. There is no need to catalogue other crimes in the story regardless of who they are committed by. The suggestion that crimes against Israelis should be referred to here suggests that those crimes justify the beating of a boy by police. Nothing justifies police violence against children.

Actually, Israel is continuously kidnapping and murdering Palestinians. They take children from their beds in the dead of night and take them to be interrogated with no parents, no lawyer, no video or audio checks on their behaviour. Wow! A token Arab in the judiciary. Sorry, but that doesn't make up for the fact that, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories at least, children become adults at 18 when they're Jews, but at 16 if they're non-Jews. And did you know that Israel is the ONLY country in the world that tries children by military court? Democracy? I think not.

So the "fake soldiers" beat him, then handed him over to the Israel authorities?

Can you offer another explanation why he's in Israeli custody?

Laughable

You can't have it both ways though. Here you are claiming your own use of brute force is simply the way things are done over there while simultaneously claiming to be more civilized than the Arab Palestinians (whose villages were razed by Jewish terrorists like the Irgun) you somehow fault for being angry about it. You can't appeal to the West as being a civilizing force in an uncivilized area then proceed to behave in precisely the same manner. You especially can't then feel persecuted when Westerners criticize you for behaving like the brutal beasts you say are merely reaping what they have sown! That isn't anti-Semitism on the part of those now criticizing you. It's simply calling Israel's barbaric behavior "barbaric"! The fact that you appear unable to comprehend what is blatantly obvious to everyone but Zionists simply affirms Zionism to be another form of morally bereft nationalism like those that wracked Europe twice last century. Which brings us to the crux of the Palestinian/Israeli "problem".

When the Zionist Project was dreamt up in the 1890s, white occupation of non-Christian countries was perfectly acceptable. And of course Britain, which gave Zionists permission to colonize Palestine, was one of the leading benefactors of that policy.
But ironically, it was the crimes of the Nazis which made the world turn it's back on the very sort of behavior the Zionist Project was deeply dependent on for achieving its goals. Hence their "need" to portray the founding of Israel and the conflict that provoked in a manner far different than the truth of the situation. And you may have been able to get away with, indeed you were well on the way toward bamboozling the world about "Arab aggression". But the internet suddenly made access to scholarly sources of information that contradict that narrative available.

Over the years I have seen how Zionists write. They often pretend to be "Jew haters" and post inflammatory blurbs like "death to Israel" or just try to turn the debate into a racist back-and-forth.

Are you a shill?

Likud is just one example, but so-called "left" Zionists are just left colonizers. They all believe that Palestinians should give up their land to colonizers, only "left" Zionist want Palestinians to do it by their free will.
End of Zionism and colonization of Palestine !

First Zionist invade, mass-murder, ethnic cleanse, rob and torture natives, including children
Then some Zionist troll defends their crimes.