MK Dov Henin (Hadash) and New Israel Fund Director Rachel Liel voiced outrage at the arrest Friday of Haggai Elad, Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), at a demonstration against Jewish life in Jerusalem's Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood. MK Henin wants the Knesset's Interior Committee convened post-haste in order to discuss the arrest of Elad and 14 others at the demonstration, which took place one day after National Union Knesset members toured the neighborhood . The Jerusalem Police said in response that the demonstration was an illegal protest by anarchists and leftists who ignored police instructions to break up. “If the Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel feels free to participate in an illegal demonstration, he should not be surprised that he is arrested,” the police added. Liel, who heads the New Israel Fund which finances ACRI, asked in a statement: “Who gave the order to add Israel to the group of states in which human rights activists are arrested for their activity? After the arrest of the Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Israeli citizens need to place this question before the Minister of Public Security and the Prime Minister. The hurried use of the tool of arrest in order to silence civil protest, without there being any violence, should be of concern to all those who could be involved in civil protest, from all ends of the political spectrum.” Left wing groups have been holding licensed demonstrations every Friday over the past three months to protest renewed Jewish presence at the ancient Jerusalem neighborhood of Shimon HaTzaddik. This Friday's demonstration was not licensed because police had already granted a license to another left endorsed event on the previous evening – a mixed Arab-Jewish dance party. Demonstrator who blocked police megaphone surrounded... ...and carted away. Another demonstrator hauled off. Police haul away a man holding what looks like a camera or audio recorder.