Police in Israel detain Jewish man for kippah showing Israeli, Palestinian flags | CNN

Israeli police detained a Jewish man on Monday for wearing a kippah embroidered with an Israeli and a Palestinian flag — then cut up the religious head covering, he says — in a rare case that has drawn national attention. Alex Sinclair, a 53-year-old author and adjunct lecturer at the Hebrew University, told CNN that police approached him while he was sitting at a cafe in his hometown of Modiin about 22 miles southeast of Tel Aviv. Within minutes, he said, he was taken to a local police station, searched and detained. In a detailed Facebook post, Sinclair wrote that he had been working on his computer when “a religious man came over to me with an angry face and shouted that my kippah is against the law.” Sinclair said he attempted to engage the man in conversation but that the man refused to listen and called police. Two officers soon arrived and told him that his “kippah is against the law and that they are going to confiscate it,” Sinclair said. He was then taken to a local police station. “Take off your belt. Face the wall, hands against the wall. They frisked me. Then they locked me in the cell, on my own, no water, no phone, no idea of what was going on or what t

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