Israel haters just cannot stop lying

Jewish Voice for Peace tweeted, "Thousands of Palestinians who took part in uprisings this May are still detained in Israeli prisons." It then gave a link to a fund that pays Palestinian terrorists. 

Thousands of them are still in prison? Given that for the past few years, there have been roughly 5000 security prisoners in Israeli prisons at any time, that seemed to be unlikely.

Another NGO that is critical of Israel, HaMoked, keeps track of the number of security prisoners in Israel by month. (B'Tselem used to but says that they can no longer get the information under Israel's Freedom of Information Act. It is unclear how HaMoked does.)

The first thing you notice is that the number of prisoners has stayed roughly the same between April and today.

The second thing is that the number of security prisoners actually decreased during the time period in question, between April and June, indicating that however many people Israel arrested were not placed in prison (unless Israel released a similar number of prisoners, which seems highly unlikely.)

The third thing you realize is that these anti-Israel organizations are filled with liars.

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