Police filmed kicking couple out of Jerusalem’s Old City over ‘FCK BNGVR’ hat

28 May 2026, 2:00 am

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A handout photo of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir displaying an Israeli flag atop the Temple Mount alongside Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer during Jerusalem Day, May 14, 2026. (Otzma Yehudit)

Police were filmed removing a couple from the Old City of Jerusalem because one of them was wearing a hat with the phrase, “FCK BNGVR.”

The woman tells the Haaretz daily that she and her partner were walking through the Muslim Quarter when an officer stopped them and demanded she turn over her “provocative” hat criticizing far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, whose office oversees the police.

The woman, identified as Dafna Brenkel, tells Haaretz that after she refused the order, the officers told them they had to leave the Old City.

Brenkel’s partner filmed the officers pushing them out of the Muslim Quarter, while refusing to identify themselves.

Brenkel tells Haaretz the incident was “the tip of the iceberg of what other people experience in Jerusalem.”

“I belong to a population group that still has the ability to look straight into the eyes of people who abuse their power in this country without suffering too severe consequences, for the most part,” says the Jewish Israeli woman.

Police, in a statement on the incident, tell Haaretz they are looking into the matter.