About a week ago, a young man in Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood was attacked by three individuals when he asked them to move from a road they had blocked.
The attackers used an iron rod to beat the young man and attempted to crush his head with a brick. The suspects were apprehended by the police after the incident, and severe charges were brought against them.
The prosecution charged the attackers with causing grievous bodily harm without attributing nationalist motivation to the assault.
Chaim Bleicher, a lawyer from Honenu organization representing the victim, stated: "Unfortunately, Islamist brutes take every opportunity to harm the security and lives of loyal Israeli citizens. In our case, as well as in other terrorist attacks we are handling, the incident begins with a remark or action that doesn't 'sit well' with the Islamist brutes, and from there the escalation to an attack using an iron bar to an attempted murder is quick, as the brute is simply waiting for an opportunity to harm a Jew."
He called on the prosecution to recognize the reality: "It is time for a general policy change in the prosecution so that such severe assaults will be considered as nationalistic terror attacks, even if the incident started with some kind of trigger."