Guardian of Walls
Guardian of Walls | ||
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Overview | ||
Date | May 10, 2021[1][2] - May 21, 2021[3][4][5]
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Location | Israel Gaza Strip | |
Combatants | ||
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) | Israel | |
Commanders | ||
Ismail Haniyeh , Ziyad al-Nakhalah | Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel at the time) | |
Strength | ||
Casualties | ||
Operation Guardian of the Walls began[1] by Israel after an increased Islamic incitement, as the Iran[6] linked Jihadi terror groups Hamas controlling Gaza and (to a lesser capability Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)[7] on May 10, 2021,[8] began bombarding Israeli civilians with rockets at the last Muslims' days of Ramadan.
It was three days after a senior Hamas official, called on "Palestinians" to “cut off the heads of the Jews with knives."[9][10]
Prior[11] to the firing of rockets, a wave of Arabs attacking Jews inside Israel rose sharply, (mainly against pious Jews who mostly do not serve in the IDF) especially following incitement in Arab Palestinian mainstream since at least April 2. Ahead of Muslims' Ramadam.[12]
As these operations are:
Terrorists target all Israelis, IDF targets terrorists and their infrastructures, while making efforts not to hit those non involved, yet, the Arab-Islamist side has the vested interest to see about civilian deaths, in order to gather media sympathy and boost support in the Islamic world.
During the clashes between the IDF and Islamists in Gaza, (beginning on May 11), many Israeli Arabs also turned against their Jewish neighbors[13] Using mosques to facilitate attacks[14][15] often the violence accompanied by Islamic cry "Khybar". And 'Kill the J..s.'[16][17][18]
Repeated overall racist motive Arab anti-Jewish attacks inside Israel
Asides from physically attacking Jews, Muslim Rioters in Israel Burn 10 Synagogues, 112 Jewish Homes.[19][20] Local Islamic leaders incited.[21][22][23] Some "Twenty-eight mosques were exposed as weapons caches. Similarly, 22 Muslim prayer houses were documented as being used to incite riots against Jews."[19]
(Lack of proportionality.[24][25][26][27] Even the State Attorney, criticized of pro-Arab bias, about indictments made in operation of Guardian of the Walls it responded directly on the question of symmetry: "There were a significant lower number, violent actions by citizens of Jewish origin." 85% filed against Arabs vs 15%,[28] The High Court also criticized local judge lenient on racist Arab attackers and also for excluding the racial motive.[29]
Arab massive attacks [despite constituting only about 21% of the population] with many in Arab leadership silent[30][31] The "thunderous stutter of the Arab MKs fuels" the racist rioters.[32] Worse, local Arab leaders even egging on, were less reported by Israeli media as in less common retaliation[33] on an Arab,[34] [after a day earlier: An Arab driver made his way through Jewish demonstrators in Lod. He accelerated and according to the protesters almost ran over them. [35]], thought he was about to ram into Jews,[36] a man bites dog event, and it was sharply denounced even by right wingers. Overplayed in Israeli media.[37][38] Some have summed it as in a ratio of 94% to 1% reporting differences.[31][39]
The Arab anti-Jewish violence caused some 400 Jewish families to leave, in the city of Lod alone.[40]
Recap:
The chain of events indicates not only that the violence was a pre-planned Arab initiative; it was instigated despite a series of steps that the Israeli government took to calm things down, steps that had a heavy political and public cost.[41]
There's been an explosion[42][43] of Anti-Semitism, targeting Jews, in Europe,[44] in the US[45] and in Canada. Some adding their cry of "Allah u Akhbar."[46][47][48] Often under "free palestine" flag, excuse.[49] Initially, some media falsely described the sheer racist attacks.[50] The AJC attributed the sharp rise due to vitriol, extreme terminology used by anti-Israel politicians.[51]
Notable arrest was, Arab from Brooklyn. NY Waseem Awawdeh.[52][53] over a horrific lynch, by some 6 Islamic bigots upon a man wearing a Kippah, hitting him while on the ground, the men saying, in substance, ’Dirty Jew. Filthy Jew. F--k Israel. Hamas is going to kill you. Go back to Israel.’[54] Waseem said, after being arrested, that he would do it again, to which a journalist Tweeted: Because he grew up brainwashed to hate a specific group of people.[55] Days later, another Arab from NY was arrested in that beating, Faisal Elezzi.[56] Also Mohammed Said Othman, 28, was arrested and later arraigned on an indictment in connection to the May 20, 2021 attack.[57] [Related on Othman:[58]
Overview: Suleiman Othman was arrested in January 2022 after physically attacking a pro-Israel Jewish man the prior month. Othman yelled an anti-Semitic slur and other insults at a protester wearing an Israeli flag at an April 2022 rally. After violent activist Saadah Masoud attacked the pro-Israel protester, Othman tied the flag around his shoe to walk on it. Othman later held the flag while it was on fire. During a violent May 2021 counterprotest, Othman was yelling [00:01:33] and pointing at Israel supporters while another anti-Israel activist held him back. In May 2021, Othman led [00:08:48] a chant calling for Israel’s destruction at a rally organized by Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an activist group in New York City founded by Nerdeen Kiswani. Othman has engaged [00:06:15] in anti-Israel activism [00:17:55] with WOL multiple times. Until February 2018, WOL was known as the New York City chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), using the name NYC SJP... On December 26, 2021, two Jewish college students, Blake Zavadsky and Ilan Kaganovich, were reportedly assaulted by two men outside a Foot Locker in Brooklyn, New York. Zavadsky wore an IDF sweatshirt, was punched in the face by one of the assailants, who called Zavadsky and Kaganovich “dirty J...”]
On July 20, 2021 three Arab-Muslims: Daniel Shaukat, 20, of Bensonhurst, Haider Anjam, 21, of Midwood, and Ashan Azad, 19, of Midwood, were charged in hate crimes in Brooklyn, NY. The defendants allegedly stated, “Kill all the Jews,” demanded that a Jewish man say, “Free Palestine,” punched him when he refused, and then chased him and a friend while holding a cricket bat.[59] The events happened in May.[60][61]
In 2023, the "hate trio" faced jail time: Mahmoud Musa, Mohammed Othman, Mohammed Said Othman. And the term for Waseem Awawdeh [62] was extended, after a public outcry.[63]
On May 23, at the masses of anti-Israel protesters in London, some Muslims held hate-filled signs such as, viciously belittling the Holocaust, including: "surpasses Hitler".[64] In Chicago, on May 23, 2021, an Arab mob yelled "kill the J..s" in a rally.[65] On July 3, a 'visibly Jewish' man was subjected to tirade on London bus. One holding a knife shouting: 'I will slit your throat for Palestine.'[66]
Contents
- 1 Background
- 1.1 Khaybar
- 1.2 Power: Iran, Hamas
- 1.3 PA incitement
- 1.4 Hamas & PA intifada
- 1.5 Pure racist attacks - pre Op.
- 1.6 Fatwa
- 1.7 Property dispute, the excuse
- 1.8 Masses at al-Aqsa and security
- 1.9 Arson terror
- 1.10 Hamas targets Israeli civilians using own civilians to create victims and media plays along
- 1.11 Racist (/nationalistic) Arab anti-Jewish attacks inside Israel: the days of Op.+
- 1.12 The other Iranian hand: Hezbollah
- 1.13 Fake news, to incite
- 1.14 Anti-Semitism under cloak of "pro-Palestinian"
- 2 Reaction
- 3 Media
- 4 Islamic Republic of Iran- Hitleristic Genocidal campaign
- 5 Hitler admiration, violence promotion, death celebration at UN run schools
- 6 UNRWA on Hamas using its schools
- 7 Ceasefire
- 8 Fatalities: numbers, "civilians" and the culprit
- 9 Hamas head plays "hero" surrounded by civilians
- 10 UN condemns Hamas, Hezbollah for its use of Human shields, wider anti-Jewish attacks
- 11 UN Anti-Israel "human rights" panel
- 12 August/2021 attack
- 13 See related
- 14 References
Background
Khaybar
- January, 2021. Khybar calls by some Arab Muslims against Jews, as Arab on Arab violent crime rises exponentially.
With the rise of violence within the Arab society in Israel (Israeli Arabs among themselves - violent crimes in this sector disproportionately high even earlier years,[67] it has only risen even higher in recent years.[68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77] Arab leadership has been also blamed: "As long as the Arab demonstrators continue to wave PLO flags in their demonstrations, please do not come to ... with complaints."[78] In one example after Arab politicians urged police for even more action (#arablivesmatter due to Arab on Arab crime), at the large Arab village, Umm el Fahm, Arabs demonstrated with PLO, Hamas and Al Qaeda flags, called for the police to leave. The demonstration was under a label protesting the so called "murders virus". The refusal to cooperate with the police, and blaming the violence on a "virus."[79] Some pointed out:[80] That seeing Arab politicians like Ayman Odeh coming to demonstrate about the violence in Arab crime is ridiculous, he voted against the entry of police stations into villages, against the entry of the GSS to eradicate weapons in Arab society. Now he is complaining about helplessness ... Unlike in dealing with Israeli Jews, Israeli police is super ensitive not to handle the Arab sector harshly[81] as well as to court's often soft approach[82]).
Yet, some among the Arabs chose to turn their anger at Jews and called for "Khaybar" (Islamic battle cry to murder Jews).[83][84]
Power: Iran, Hamas
- Power: Iran, Hamas.
In late January/2021, Iran was seeking even in more desperation to strengthen alliance between the "axis of resistance," celebrated by Hezbollah. Yet, it was obvious the dilemma of Hamas, risk it takes in restoring full relationships with Syria, losing support among its people.[85]
Then came Hamas' frustration at the delay of the elections announced by rival Mahmoud Abbas. [86] Thus, Iran, Hamas were desperate for a fire and 'creating' again victimhood.
PA incitement
- Between April 2 and April 10, 2021, the less radical Arab "Palestinian" authority, the PA, incited, especially the youths for violence.
As documented:[87]
In the days before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, PA TV repeatedly broadcast a video inciting terror:
“I fired my shots, I threw my bomb. I detonated, detonated, detonated my [explosive] belts… My brother, throw my blood on the enemy like bullets”
The video was broadcast 20 times between April 2 and April 10
The broadcast of songs promoting hate and violence immediately after animated children's shows should not be seen as a coincidence, but rather as part of the PA's indoctrination of children
Violence has once again flared up in Jerusalem. The outburst of violence was not spontaneous. It was not a response to any Israeli action. Rather it came on the heels of intensive and focused Palestinian Authority incitement to violence and terror.
The Muslim month of Ramadan started on the evening of April 12.
In the days before Ramadan, from April 2 through April 10, official PA TV broadcast a terror-promoting song and accompanying visuals of violence at least 20 times. Focusing on influencing the youth, PA TV also broadcast the song during the 4:00-5:00 p.m. time slot for children's programming.
As noted:[88]
...the uptick in violence since the start of the Muslim month of Ramadan in mid-April didn’t simply emerge out of nowhere. Ditto for the so-called “TikTok intifada” – the latest Palestinian fad of beating up Orthodox Jews and sharing videos of the physical aggression on the popular platform.
PA television was full of speeches and music videos promising glory for those who killed Jews.[89]
Explained at the time:[90]
From the Mufti, through Arafat to Abu Mazen: The lighting up Palestinian street with the aim of "saving al-Aqsa" is nothing new, and its purpose is to serve as a band-aid for the failures of the Palestinian leadership
(Al Aqsa in danger? | Temple Mount Photo: Haim Zach, GPO)
The recent conduct of the head of the Palestinian Authority, the "Rais" Abu Mazen, is indicative of the hysteria, lack of control and pressure he is under. This conduct is not surprising and continues a familiar and well-known pattern of action from the past, according to which the Arabs raise Jerusalem "high" and incite against the State of Israel, the Zionists and the Jews, during Ramadan and whenever there is internal political or governmental distress among them. It is good to have the State of Israel and the Zionists who rule Jerusalem so that there will be someone to blame and someone to consume the accumulated anger, in the absence of a responsible leader even if he looks like an 'adult.'
Hamas & PA intifada
How Hamas and the Palestinian Authority started the hate 'TikTok intifada':[91]Sensing an opportunity and seizing on it, both the PA and Hamas positioned a court decision as an assault on Muslims worldwide and encouraged their followers on social media to violently riot...Before Hamas began indiscriminately firing 4,000-plus rockets at Israeli civilians — while hiding behind Palestinian civilians — tensions increased as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was winding down. In an effort to prevent violence, Israel installed temporary security gates in Jerusalem, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas responded with state-sponsored incitement, encouraging young people to violently riot against minimal security measures implemented to reduce friction and prevent conflict. Contemporaneously, a group of Arab families in the eastern Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shimon HaTzaddik, known in Arabic as Sheikh Jarrah, had been fighting eviction in a longstanding property dispute that was about to be ruled on by Israel’s Supreme Court. Sensing an opportunity and seizing on it, both the PA and Hamas positioned the court decision as an assault on Muslims worldwide and, once again, encouraged their followers on social media to violently riot. Hence Israel’s claim that a real estate dispute was used to foment discord and incite violence. And thus, the “TikTok intifada” was born with videos encouraging Palestinians to attack Israelis. And these messages were exported worldwide. Jews were attacked in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere. Bloodthirsty lynch mobs roamed the streets trying spark a pogrom of the likes we haven’t seen since Kristallnacht. Unbridled anti-Semitism was on full display.
Pure racist attacks - pre Op.
- In April 2021, at least since the 14th[92][93] at Muslims' Ramadan days,[94][95] a wide trend among racist[96][97][98] Arabs attacking Jews unprovoked and bragging about it on social media intensified.[99][100] The clips increased incitement in the Arab sector[101] "The embodiment of antisemitic racism."[97] No "protest", but pure Nazi type laughs.[102][32][103][104][105][106][96][93][15]
The trend was also blamed on Israeli Arab politicians, Knesset members' decades of instigating, while "these young Arabs .. live a life of abundance in one of the most comfortable countries in the Middle East."[107] The victims were almost all ultra orthodox, pious, haredim who by in large do not serve in Israeli army.[108] Police were warned violent riots will erupt afterwards.[109] In April-17, it was promoted by a channel identified with the "Palestinian" Islamic Jihad.[110] The clips by the racist attackers generated many "likes" by Muslim bigots.[111] Some then carried out lynching towards the end of April.[112]
- The (Apr/2021) throwing a cup of boiling coffee at an ultra-Orthodox man passing through the Nablus gate. And his friend filming it. "Film his face," he shouted.[113]
- The 23-year-old man who was convicted of injuring two Jews in Jerusalem for racist motives. The indictment in which the young man admitted stated that in April, he was driving his vehicle carrying a sharp object with him. When he noticed the two making their way to the Western Wall, he decided to attack them for racist motives. So, blocking their way, shouting at them "Allah Akbar" and hitting them in the face with the sharp object.[114]
- The Arab lynching of Haredi Jew, Y. Gerdi (Apr 22, 2021), who stood in traffic jams and they threw stones at his car, broke the window."[115] They continued beating him as he laid on the ground.[116] and burned his car.[117] He was wounded in all parts of his body.[115]
- As a Jew was walking his dog in (Shimon HaTzadik Sheikh Jarrah area), a racist Arab mob physically attack him "he is a Jew, he is a Jew!" (Apr/24).[118] while shrieking terrifying outbursts.[119]
- At times, attacker boasting to police of its racist motive. Such as Arab attacker coming from Temple Mount on Via Dolorosa.[120]
At least 53 Arabs were arrested already within 10 days (of the increased wave) on various acts. The wide racist trend was largely ignored[122] by anti-Jewish Haaretz. (Not merely anti-Israel[123] who is also apologetic for Arab rerror and has a twisted narrative in racism.[124]).
At the Lag-ba'Omer tragedy in Meron of April-2021, while 44 Haredim (who overwhelmingly avoid serving in the IDF and some were not even Israelis) including several children lost their lives, Hezbollah supporters, "pro-Palestinian" social media celebrated Meron deaths.[125][126]
The trend went on, and on June 12, 2021, a young Arab Lui Stlyah (Loui Stliah) was arrested as he attacked undercover policemen (in Haredi ultra-Orthodox disguise) on racist motive.[127]
The hateful attacking trend continued such as in July, 2021, for example.[128]
- One of the Garbua (Garbou, Garboa) Arab Muslim brothers who both brutally attacked a Jew on April 18, 2021 - while shouting their racist ethnic cleansing that "Jews won't live in Jaffa",[130] in 2014 he wrote admiringly of Hitler.[129]
End of Apr, beginning in May-2021:
Arab racist attacks increase in its severity, before the Operation Guardian of the Walls.
- The two Arab sanitation workers arrested after throwing stones out of the garbage truck at Jews because of racist motives. (June 21 - part of April trend).[131]
- The racist[135] group: May 9 lynching a young man, minutes after he proposed to his fiancee,[136] and attempted arson targeting Jews on May 11, all: "for ideological-nationalist motives because they were Jews."[137][138] The attack on Antman occurred the day before the start of Operation 'Guardian of the Walls.'
Al Aqsa association
The "Al Aqsa association", linked to the Southern Islamic movement and to the United Arab List, was behind the attempts to ferment in Operation Guardian of the Walls.[139]
Omar Shakir
On April 25, 2021, after some 11 days of raging racist Arab violence targeting Jews, especially those known to be, by in large, avoiding IDF draft, Omar Shakir (with a history of anti-Israel bigotry for years, by now heading HRW branch), reposted a photo, not for related recent events but from 2015 - whereby Israeli security arrests an Arab rioter and escorted a Jewish victim of Arab rioters - under the headline "Israel's discriminatory [sic] rules summed up in a photo." Which again tells you about his support for racist Arab violence and mischaracterizing security and safety in derogatory terms. Despite being called out for misplaced old photo, as of months later, he still refused to remove tweet.[140]
Preceding TikTok terror
There was already a lynching of Yeshivah students by Arabs—while shouting racist slogans as well as 'Allah Akbar'-- in February, 2021.[141][142]
In Feb 2021, an Arab attacked a Hasidic Jew for no reason. The Arab attacker hit him in the head, kicked and cursed and even threw him on a vehicle that was at the scene.[143]
The Bir Hadaj Arab-Islamic racist rape of 10-years-old girl occurred on Feb 10-11, 2021.
The increased racist outbursts trend by Arabs especially accompanied by filming it, picked up speed in late March, mostly since mid-April and on.
In March 24, it was reported of two Arab bloggers going around at the Wailing Wall, choosing to call all Jewish visitors as "settlers" and broadcasting to a half a million followers anti-Semitic hate against Jews.[144] "They are not human," the racist Arab says there.[145]
Fatwa
- On April 10, 2021, on the heels of Jews purchasing houses in Silwan area, Muslims in Jerusalem, through its former Mufti, Sheikh Akrama Tsabari, (with a history of anti-Semitic incitement), issued "holy" order [Fatwa] which forbade Muslims from selling houses to Jews.[146] Already by next day, "An Arab tries to murder his Jewish neighbors with an ax, today in the Muslim Quarter."[147]
Property dispute, the excuse
- Towards end of April, dispute between Jewish owners of houses in Sheikh Jarrah and a few Arab families, who never had the titles to the properties,[148][149] refusing to evacuate was used by inciters to push for violence.[150][151] Arabs called for racist ethnic cleansing there from Jews.[152] On May 5, Hamas icon, Mohammed Deif "warned" Israel.[153] Indeed, it intensified, on May 6.[154][155]
"The claim that Israeli law permits Jews to reclaim ownership of lands they owned prior to 1948 but denies Palestinians such a right is false in every particular."[156]
Fact
Fact, it was the Arabs who uprooted the Jews in the old city of Jerusalem in 1948.
.The was a cruel ethnic cleansing by the armed Arabs of the pious Jews in Jerusalem. The Jews of the old city, the dwelling of their families in Jerusalem going back for generations, were given one hour to pack. It has been documented: the Arab Legion’s scorched-earth tactics that razed and burned to the ground every structure there, including all its synagogues and yeshivahs. The Arabs expelled all of the city’s residents, mainly defenseless, old Orthodox Jews. They were given about an hour to vacate homes that most extended families had lived in for centuries. [157] The Jordanian commander, Abdullah el-Tal, boasted to his superiors:[158][159][160]
"For the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter. Not a single building remains intact. This makes the Jews' return here impossible."
Excuse
Arab-Palestinian long-time human rights activist:[161]
This dispute is not actually about four houses in East Jerusalem. This is about Hamas seeing a chance to seize the narrative and increase its own influence and control over Palestinians in Jerusalem. Don’t buy their fake news and let them dilute their own blame. In the coming days, Jews and Muslims are both likely to die because Hamas saw political upside in violence. Don’t forget it.
Profile
Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood's Arab activist's role model is Dalal Mughrabi - terrorist murderer at most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978. She and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway and murdered 37 of the civilian passengers, 12 of them children, while wounding over 70. The Fatah issued her a congratulatory message: "May you live as a rebel defending our Jerusalem, like your role model Dalal Mughrabi."[165]
Noted:[162]
According to her social media posts, Mughrabi is El Kurd’s “role model.” A recently posted photo by Palestinian political party Fatah also featured El Kurd with her Dalal Mughbrai phone cover, taking a selfie. The caption praised both El Kurd and Mughrabi explicitly. Yet when this post was reported, Facebook first refused to remove it, and only after several days was it finally taken down, with no additional explanation or update provided.
Muna El Kurd, the Sheikh Jarrah activist who’s made international headlines with her brother, had at least five posts removed within the span of two weeks, according to updates received from Facebook. One of El Kurd’s removed posts featured a picture of Hitler, and at least four of her posts featured the glorification of Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the death of 38 Israelis, including 13 children, in the Coastal Road massacre.
Muna elkurd seems to be something of a Hitler fan.[164] Muhammed Elkurd aside, from glorifying terrorism, he's been spreading fake "stories"[166]
Overview
Mohammed El-Kurd has glorified terrorists as martyrs, celebrated the murder of civilians,[167] and ethnic cleansing, and believes all Israelis are terrorists,[168] spread incitement and whitewashed the Hamas terrorist organization.[166]El-Kurd has also spread hatred of America and Israel, demonized Zionists and promoted hatred of the police.In 2021, El-Kurd spread misinformation about Israel during interviews on major U.S. television networks CNN and MSNBC, as well as on social media...
El-Kurd retweeted a May 19, 2021 tweet that quoted Kwame Ture: "The United States is the greatest de-humanizer in the world, and Israel is nothing but a finger of the United States of America. It de-humanizes all over the world, and our fight today is a fight for humanity."
Kwame Ture, otherwise known as Stokely Carmichael, was an organizer in the U.S. Civil Rights movement, “Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and an advocate for revolutionary socialist Pan-Africanism. Ture reportedly said "I have never admired a white man, but the greatest of them, to my mind, was Hitler." ...
Spreading Misinformation
On May 16, 2021, El-Kurd also tweeted: “While settlers can drive into a crowd of Palestinians have full backing and support by police, Palestinians are killed extrajudicially. #ApartheidIsrael"
On May 10, 2021, Palestinian rioters threw stones at an Israeli vehicle, injuring the Jewish driver who then lost control of his car and swerved off the road, hitting several people.
Rioters continued to pelt the driver with stones and approached the vehicle, attempting to attack the driver, before an Israeli police officer arrived at the scene and fired warning shots to disperse the mob.
On May 16, 2021, El-Kurd posted on Twitter: “The IOF shot & reportedly killed a man after his car crashed into a police car in Sheikh Jarrah. We expect increased police brutality & isolation from the city as the blockade of the neighborhood continues. Watch militarized police aim to shoot the press attempting to film."
On May 16, 2021, a Palestinian driver rammed his car into a temporary police roadblock in Sheikh Jarrah, injuring seven Israeli officers. The attack was captured on video.
El-Kurd included in his Twitter post a video of the car-ramming that was edited to misrepresent the event.
On May 19, 2021, El-Kurd tweeted: “Even if ‘Hamas sent a 7yo girl to the border’—which it didn’t, & that’s only believable to those who are deeply racist—a fascist murderous terrorist IOF pig pulled the trigger and killed that girl, not Hamas. This is a pervert’s ‘she was asking for it’ argument."
El-Kurd’s tweet was responding to one of his own, a few minutes earlier, which included CNN video reporting [00:00:19] on Hamas sending a costumed 7 year-old girl to the Gaza border fence in March 2018.
Contrary to El-Kurd’s claim that the girl was killed, Israeli forces returned the child safely to her parents.
On May 24, 2021, El-Kurd featured in a Democracy Now! Video posted to YouTube saying [00:02:35] Israel was “senselessly carpet bombing a strip where people, two million people, are besieged."
During OGW, Israel used targeted strikes on terrorist targets and did not carry out a "carpet bombs of Gaza."
El-Kurd and his sister Muna live in one of these properties in the neighborhood of Shimon Hatzaddik/Sheikh Jarrah, and both were arrested for participating in violent protests essentially calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the area. Furthermore, while El-Kurd’s claim to fame is that he “reports” on happenings in Jerusalem, he often simply disseminates lies. On May 10, for instance, El-Kurd posted a video to Twitter that he claimed proved Israelis were “readying themselves” to “invade” the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
But the clip actually showed Jews praying at the Western Wall.
El-Kurd also spread a fake story about a stabbing attack by “settlers.”[169]
D. Greenfield[170] reminds the historic events about the properties, concluding: when AOC, Warren, Sanders, Tlaib, Omar, the UN, and the Biden administration treat the occupiers of Sheikh Jarrah as the rightful owners, they’re defending ethnic cleansing. And it should be called what it is.
Masses at al-Aqsa and security
- At the same time, fearing violence in Al Aqsa Mosque (Temple Mount are), Israel restricted quota of massive Muslim prayers, (usually by limiting youngsters), and this restriction was used for violence against Israeli police.[171] Local Islamist influencers hyped incitement.[21] April–May: Agitated also by Hamas and even Jordan and "moderate" Fatah, "Demonstrators called for 'blood and fire to defend al Aqsa' and for Iran to 'bomb Tel Aviv,' but they voiced no slogans about the establishment of a Palestinian state or Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine." [172] The powerful libel of 'Al-Aqsa in danger' since the time of Haj Amin al-Husseini (whose propaganda in the 1920s included disseminating fake made up photomontage of a Zionist flag supposedly flying over it[173]), has been revived.[174] Prominent Arab politician, Knesset member Ayman Odeh expressed hope the violence spreads to a full Intifadah.[175] In the midst of the Arab riots, Ayman Odeh even interviewed with a Hezbollah supporter channel and has justified the Arab riots.[176] Another prominent Arab politician, Knesset member Mansour Abbas of the United Arab List, who, unlike major icons in Arab society did condemn the violence, however days after the ceasefire, he's attended a tent by radical 'Northern branch of Islamic Movement,' set up for Sheikh Kamal Chatib who encouraged martyrdom at al Aqsa mosque.[177]
Arson terror
Berween May 6–9, 2021, Hamas sent out a wave of incendiary balloons causing some 39 fires.[178][179]
Hamas targets Israeli civilians using own civilians to create victims and media plays along
'under the supervision of Iranian experts,'[181][182] Gaza's government, Jihadi Hamas (and the PIJ) began firing rockets, quickly stepping it up to many rockets in a short period of time over populated areas, causing many to penetrate despite the iron dome defense, [183] within days it fired thousands,[184] about 3,000 in less than the first week alone[185] within an average of around 400-500 fired a day,[186] aimed at Israeli civilians,[187][188][189][190][191] typically using its own population as human shields,[7][192][193][194][195][196][197][198][199][200]
[201][202][203][204][205] (and even killing civilians from its population in the process,[206] 1 in 7 rockets that Hamas fires lands in Gaza,[207][208] [209]) VS humane Israeli army[210] who "moves Gazan civilians out of the way of attacks on Hamas."[211] risking skipping terror target for fear of children being there,[212]
The Hamas terror-tunnels have been built intentionally beneath civilian areas. And the IDF had to maneuver very carefully how to eliminate terror actors hiding there. Top Hamas engineers were eliminated.[1]
“The main difference between Israel and Hamas: Israel is using missiles to protect its people while Hamas is using its people to protect its rockets,” Eid told The Algemeiner. “Hamas does not care where these missiles land.”
Eid estimates based on his own Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip that more than 50 Palestinians died because of errant rockets by the Hamas that were targeted towards Israel but which landed in Gaza. According to the Israeli army, about 4,340 rockets were fired by Hamas toward Israel during the 11 days of hostilities, with 640 of them falling within Gaza.
Even biased NPR in its anti-Israel reporting piece cited the fact: ...In Gaza City, fully intact buildings stood right next to where others had been flattened. One building looked like a layer cake, with one story stacked on top of the other.[214] Which proves the humane nature routine and nethods, precision. Israeli Security Agency warn Arab-Palestinian farmer from being in a dangerous area of the Gaza-Israel border is an example.[215][216]
Biased anti-Israel UNRWA chief in gaza[217] was forced by Hamas to flee after asserting confirming IDF was highly precise (in targeting only terrorists).[218]
As in a nutshell, the classic example described the conflict:
The IDF, attempting to warn about an impending strike, pleading for the Arab man in Gaza to evacuate the building before the bombing because civilians are present. This is the conversation that took place:
- "I can’t get all of the people out I need at least two hours to get them out," the Palestinian says.
- "Listen, we are going to bomb the building," the member of the IDF replies.
- "You want to bomb? Bomb whatever you want," the man responds.
- "No, brother, we need to do everything we can so you don’t die,” the IDF member says.
- "We want to die," the Palestinian answers.
- "But you have a responsibility for children’s lives," the Israeli pushes back.
- "If the children need to die then they’ll die," the Palestinian counters.
- "God forbid, God forbid, what do you want, to die?!" the soldier asks.
- "This is how we reveal your cruelty," the man responds.[219][220][221] [222][223]
The Iranian hands. Days before the barrage of rockets, on May 6, IRGC General Asghar Emami said that "Iran Does Not Need To Send Missiles Or Planes To Attack Israel, Through The Resistance Axis, We Can Plough Israeli Cities With Mortars; When We Want American Concessions, We Can Tighten Our Grip Around Israel's Throat."[224]
Racist (/nationalistic) Arab anti-Jewish attacks inside Israel: the days of Op.+
- While the afromentioned jihadists pounded Israeli civilians, at the same time, inside Israel, all over,[225] openly racist in nature,[226][227] especially where there is an Arab population, there were anti-Jewish vicious attacks, with Jihadi sentiments cries.[228][229] Including on at least 5 houses of worship[230] which shows Arab Islamic sheer hatred. In Lod for example, masses of Arabs ("hundreds of Arabs, adults, women, no mob and not a few children, they came and just looked for blood"[231]) attacked their Jewish neighbors, shouting "Itbach al Yahud" (death to J...).[232][233] In some Arab towns there were Islamic calls to murder Jews.[234] From the brutality, in another city, Arab beat the skull of young man with knives.[235] While Israeli police handled Arabs with 'kid gloves'.[236] (Israeli Arabs are not burning synagogues, schools, yeshivot, Jewish-owned stores, cars and homes because of the so-called "occupation." They are not lynching Jews that fall in their paths because of the so-called "settlements." [237]) All the while, media, even much inside Israel white washed Arab raw racist violence. Part of a wider trend of preferential treatment prevalent in Israel towards Arabs over Jews.[238]
Online genocidal hate by Arabs in Israel also increased.[239][240]
It led activist in 2021/22 stating:[241] "Today the mixed Arab-Jewish cities are the most antisemitic cities in the world."
She also added: "The calamity is, that the same Arab neighbors who stood in their home and directed the ravines for the cars and houses of Jews and marked them, it is 1929 events and it broke deep. The fact that mothers and grandmothers directing the rioters towards the cars - is the disaster, because I believe in shared lives."
- In Jaffa, Arabs lobbed incendiary device at a family (Gintazi) they thought it was Jewish. Injuring Arab Child and slightly injuring his sister.[246][247][248] Even after it was found out and publicized that Arabs perpetrated it, still hateful Arab politician in Israel pushed for fake news as if it was done by Jews.[249]
First fatality of Arab lynching was Yigal Yehoshua.[252][253][254] A group of 8 Arabs, decided to harm Jews for nationalist motives, for this purpose, they erected makeshift checkpoints and to stone Jews' vehicles; they identified Yehoshua as a Jew and stoned him with rocks and at close range.[255][256][15] In addition, there were also attempted murder cases.[257][258]
("clashes" myth: While there was overplaying in lefty media in Israel over an isolated reprisal coming only later on and against someone they thought to be ramming[259][260] into Jews, it has downplayed the initiators Arab minority on Jewish majority polulation and its wide phenomenon.
[261]) While only Jews' houses of worship were attacked by Arab-Muslims and no Muslim mosque was attacked, an Arab penalist in Israeli media, tried to claim some "balance." He attempted to dangerously instigate by lying, inventing, creating fake news.
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Second fatal victim was 84 scientist, as a result of arson by Arabs in a hotel in Acre.[263] Arabs targeting Jews by setting fire to Efendi hotel, whereby fatally injuring 84-years-old Aby Har Even who weeks later died of his wounds.[264][265]
Third fatal victim was Destau Bisset (person of colour). As two Arabs, rammed into him, dragged him, dropped him on the floor and dragged him to unconsciousness.[266] The two Arabs tried then to hit a couple too, without success.[267] Again, because victim was identified as a Jew.[268][269][270][271]
- May 11, 2021, Arab Bedouin, Abdel Aziz Amrani attacked a Jew, on "a racial basis and out of a nationalist-ideological motive."[272][273]
- The May 12, 2021 lynch of a Jew who passed by Arab town of Tamra (because entrance path to his town was closed due to Arab riots). "Everything from a nationalist-ideological motive."[274] Worst, the three who confessed for racist attack, got encouragements on social media from hundreds of Arab residents in Tamra.[275]
- The May 11, 2021, burning down of the Efendi Hotel in Acre: Hassan Eid [حسن عيد] - accused of setting fire: "an act of racially motivated terrorism."[276] "He picked up a large stone, slammed it several times against the hotel door and broke the glass," it said. "He then poured a flammable substance on the floor of the hotel and set the door on fire."
- Fouad Madi [فؤاد ماضي], who participated on the burning down of the Efendi Hotel, was aggravated, and the claim that he acted spontaneously out of anger and without a racial motive must be rejected altogether."[277]
In a piece "Antisemitism in Acre is reminiscent of darker times," local journalist debunked lefty excuses. Pointing also to his mayor in the mixed city of Acre actually investing more resources for Arabs than for Jews and still the elephant in the room is Arab nationalism and Islamic intolerance elements behind the massive violence.[278]
Reminding, the hateful attacks go on: "Since the May riots, the antisemitic harassment and violence has continued. Our children’s schools have been the targets of violence. Young Arab boys regularly throw stones at Jewish school children, spit and curse them. After 7 p.m., Jews do not walk in the city center or the beach promenade. They are scared of being attacked by Arab thugs. Every Friday night, when religious Jews walk to synagogues in the city center, Arab youths regularly harass them, insult and humiliate them."
- Arab rioters attacked an ultra-Orthodox. (Very identifiable as a Jew per his clothes as ultra Orthodox). They beat, kicked him and punched him. He needed medical attention.[279]
- Abd al-'Aziz' Amrani accused lynching attempt in the Negev. The indictment against him attributes to him offenses of terrorist act and causing racist acts.[280]
- Six residents of the Negev are accused of participating in violrnt riots, act for a nationalist-racist motive."[281]
- A teacher at a school in Jerusalem attacks a racist motive in the Old City. Baha Aladdin Najib hit the victim on the left shoulder and as a result his glasses and hat fell off. As he bent down to pick them up Najib hit him once more and continued to follow him as he hit his head.[282]
- Two young Arabs from Acre were arrested on suspicion of assaulting students on racial grounds in attacking Jewish schoolchildren in the city.[283]
- Five Arab-Israelis are charged with a series of terrorist offenses and racist assaults, for attacking [Benny] Beni Salman in Haifa May 13, 2021, after asking him if he was a Jew.[284][285] The Arabs shouted 'kill him it's a Jew'.[286] Mr Salman was about to visit his mother.
He's been hospitalized for weeks with severe injuries.[287] They only left him as one said "leave him, he's dead."[285]
- Elderly Jew attacked. Arab rioters beat him mercilessly and abused him for a long time.[288]
- Maniac J..., this is our area": 6 accused of assault on a racial basis in Haifa.[291]
- Mor Janashvili, whom Arabs identified as a Jew, fell victim to a lynching in Acre by an Arab mob, beaten with clubs and planks, stabbed in the head.[292][293][294][295] (Unreliable Haaretz omitted 'racist motive' In its English version vs its Hebrew version which is quoting the charge in court on 'racist motive'. Josh Breiner, Haarerz, Jun 24, 2021[296])
- The Arab neighbor pointed and shouted - "this is the Yahud's (Jew's) van": 240 vehicles were set on fire during riots.[297]
- Dror Tamir, whom an Arab mob beat, with a chair too - till it broke. And Arab bystanders cheered.[298]
- The Arab, Habib Abu Habib [حبيب ابو حبيب], who participated in the lynching of a Jew in Acre on May 12, 2021, threw stones at him from point blank range, was charged with aggrevated assault on racist motive. The judge on the attacker: "went out to fight against Jews." (Though he acquitted him on attempted murder charges, for which he was criticized for).[299]
Attacks were often with Jihadi genocidal cries of "Itbakh al Yahud" and burning houses of worship. It was after a trend of racist random attacks by Arabs against Jews, randomly, which already preceded the bombardment by Hamas. On May 16, Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades pushed to ramp it up even further.[300]
On the sweeping intolerance dominant at Arab minority in democratic Israel: The entire Arab leadership Lod, such as all the clergy of the Great Mosque, sided with the terrorist cell when they were released from prison.[22] Among the arrested in June was the Imam at largest mosque in Lod.[301][302][303][304] Imam Elbaz inciting speech on May 10 ignited a spiral[305] of bloody violence.
Noted academic gave the analysis:[306]
This time, the Jewish public will learn the lessons of the violent rampage, the manifestations of hostility and the assassination ethos that go with it among tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs, in dozens of cities throughout the country. The severity of the phenomenon focuses on the overwhelming majority refraining from curbing the hostile and violent elements, and fearing to disassociate themselves from the message they are sending to the Jews. Dozens of their spokespeople, from Knesset members to journalists and participants in the riots, who spoke to the Jewish public, flat out lied, made poor excuses and did not accept responsibility, with a particularly repulsive combination of aggression and whining. Many of them were not even willing to settle for the deliberately false and distorted symmetry that the journalists offered them, regarding "the extremists on both sides". Such a determination would be plausible had Arab society and its spokespeople revolted against the many thousands of rioters and haters amongst them, similar to the absolute renunciation of the vast majority of the Jewish public and almost all its spokespeople from the handful of vandals on the margins of society...
It is a mistake to focus on the Arab rioters who raged in Lod, Ramla and Acre, attacked their Jewish neighbors, burned and looted their property and endangered lives. Much worse are the hundreds of serious incidents all over the country, some of them substantial, where riled up young Arabs chanted, among other things, "Khyber, Khyber Ya-Yehud, Jaish Muhammad Sawf Ya'ud" ("Khaybar, Khaybar o Jews, the army of Muhammad will return"). During these protests, they actually laid siege to Arad, threatened Jews in dozens of centers in the Galilee and the Negev and tried to lynch an IDF soldier in Jaffa. These are blatant manifestations of joining the enemy during war. This is terrorism in the original sense of the term: imposing fear on tens of thousands of Jews, who fear for their lives, well-being and property.
Worth mentioning, the Arab violent attacker on a Jew in Jaffa in April showed on Facebook he's admiring Hitler.[307]
As an embodiment, an Arab, Yusuf Naim, a nurse at Hadassah Hospital, posted a picture of a swastika next to the caption "Nazi Palestinian" on his Instagram account.[308][309][310][311][312]
Related:
In the US, at a demonstration by Arab "Palestinian" groups to encourage the violence, for instance, calling out to Arab rioters in Lod:[313]
Professor Hani Bawardi, University of Michigan in Dearborn: "Oh free people of the Triangle region [in Israel], you are the most honorable rebels! Oh the free people of Lod, of the Triangle [of Arab-Israeli cities], you are the most honorable rebels."
The other Iranian hand: Hezbollah
Fake news, to incite
Among Hamas' distributing fake or manipulated news and images already earlier,[316] there was a footage of a burning tree on the Temple Mount, to enrage the Israeli-Arab public. It was a tree, Hamas itself set ablaze the portrayed it as though this was part of a campaign by radical Jews to take over the Temple Mount.
Analyst:[317]
In addtion, the operation Guardian of the Walls was characterized by a murky wave of Fake News. The Palestinians, Hamas and also the PA, ran pictures of children who were allegedly killed in Gaza and these children were killed in Afghanistan, Syria and elsewhere. There was no one to report these things. Following false posts, people take to the streets to express solidarity with the Palestinians, as we have seen in Europe and the United States. It is impossible to know where this is going, it may be that even Biden got Fake News.
Some staged horror pictures or those taken out of context and also in incorrect information. One notable example of this is a picture of a boy kneeling with his shirt stained with blood. It was shared for example by a tweeter.., which has about 20,000 followers, and has won thousands of likes and hundreds of shares.[318]
Hamas has posted a recording, falsely attributing it to one of its kidnapped hostages it holds.[319]
Students exposed fake social media reports on Israel-Gaza, to set record straight.[320]
Anti-Semitism under cloak of "pro-Palestinian"
- Arab-Islamic "free-palestine" and such posters push for sharp rise in anti-Semitism on line with fake news, warped comparisons, vile twisted descriptions, and cartoons. As a result, Jews were attacked in Europe,[321] in Toronto,[322] houses of worship in Germany[323] (which in recent years is home to a large Arab-Muslim immigrant population), among other parts.
Reaction
The US,[324] the EU,[188] the UK,[325] and the United Arab Emirates[190] condemned Hamas firing of rockets. Austria[326] and Slovenia[327] put up Israeli flags in show of support.[326] In the Czech Republic Prague landmark lit up in the colors of the Israeli flag in show of support for Israel.[328] On May 20, Czech, Slovak and German foreign ministers landed in Israel in show of solidarity.[329] In the Italian Parliament, Israeli flags were displayed, and some representatives are seen clapping.[330]
Areas with large Arab-Muslim population saw demonstrations against Israel.[331] Including in downtown Brooklyn, NY; San Francisco, Dallas; among Arab masses in France, London, among Arab immigrants in Germany. Anti-Israel Protests has spread Antisemitism especially in Europe[332] and has spread attacks on media.[333] In London, mobs of radical Islamists walking the streets of London looking for Jews to attack,[334] Muslims chanted "Khayber Khaybar oh Jews, Mohammad’s army is returning".[335] A group in a convoy of 5 vehicles, called to rape Jewish women.[336] In Vienna, [on May 15, 2021] students organized a demonstration against Anti-Semitism, some Muslims tried to interrupt it several times and belittled the Holocaust.[337]
In some places, Muslim demonstrators put up both symbols: the swastika & "Palestine" flag.
On May 17, in Los Angeles, Muslims in two vehicles, waving "palestinian" flag, shouting "Allahu Akbar" chased a religious Jewish man.[339]
On May 18, Arabs, attending a "pro-Palestine" rally in Los Angeles, stormed a restaurant, asked who is Jewish and began beating.
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Notable arrest was, Arab from Brooklyn. NY Waseem Awawdeh.[52][53] Waseem said, after being arrested, that he would do it again, to which Newsmax's Logan Ratick Tweeted: Because he grew up brainwashed to hate a specific group of people.[55] Days later, another Arab from NY was arrested in thst beating, Faisal Elezzi.[56]
There were major demonstration of support for Israel in: USA, Canada and the Czech Republic.[341] Rallies were held across the US in show of support of Israel by Jews and pro Israel Americans in: New York at Times Square, in Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Denver, Las Vegas, Seattle; Cleveland; Austin; Houston; Orlando, Fla.; the cities of Walnut Creek and Irvine in California; Scottsdale, Ariz.[342] Evangelical Christians stood up for Israel and called on Biden to do the same.[343]
Democrats, Nancy Pelosi[344] condemned Hamas, but the GOP urged more forceful defense of embattled Israel.[345] Mike Pence slammed Biden for 'weakness' in handling the conflict.[346] Mitch McConnell rejected calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, saying, "we're already seeing some push the false narrative that this conflict is a tragic dispute between two legitimate combatants, where both sides share blame that is roughly equal. What nonsense."[347] Some pointed out that the UAE was even more anti Hamas, for Israel than the Biden Administration.[348]
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both Muslims with a record of anti-Jewish bigotry, both using real progressives for this intolerance "holy" cause, were very dramatic. To the pair, AOC helped in arguing there is no balance in power, ignoring reality of course, the powerful "Palestinian" side which uses its own civilians (a long bloody history since at least 1982, Anti-Israel Terrorists' ["Palestinian" or Hezbollah] Routine Use of its Own Population as Human Shields.[349][350][351] and even by Hamas' own admission earlier[352]) to shoot at Israeli civilians[353][354][355][356] which its army is the only side that is careful about civilians.
Despite a pair of pro-Terror radical "activists" [one a former al-Jazeera guy, caught lying already before,[357] another one (Neve Gordon) hugging Arafat in the Middle of 2002 Intifadah butchery and chastising, punishing his students for daring to challenge him on his distortion[358]] "book" promoted by two known hateful over-a-decade-propagandists[359] on wiki. Yet, facts are facts.
One might imagine, what would have happened, if Israel would, even for one day, albeit not go as far as to behave like its Arab Palestinian or Hezbollah side that actively aim at civilians while using its own, but with its mighty weapons just haden't gone to great length ['roof knocking',[360] developing precision 'Iron Sting' for precision preventing collateral damage[361] various nethods[362][363]] to minimize civilians from adversary territories.
As T. Marshall concludes:[364]
Israel feels it has no choice but to try and smash the military infrastructure in Gaza. It also knows there will be civilian casualties despite them usually giving advance warning to people about which buildings they will hit. A proportion of the civilian casualties on the Palestinian side will be killed by the roughly 20 per cent of Hamas/PIJ missiles which fall within Gaza or blow up upon launch.
Yet that is unlikely to be widely propagated in the Arab world. Iran and Hamas are prepared to sacrifice another generation of Palestinians to the overwhelming firepower of the Israelis in order to win the propaganda battle, and eventually the war.
Though AOC showed absolutely ignorance vis-a-vis the Middle East when she uttered the word "occupation"[365] and admitted she isn't knowledgeable, yet she was quick to pick up the A slur,[366] originally invented by genocidal[367][368] Jihadi[369] Ahmad Shukeiri[370] (who in 1940 cheered, prayed for,[371][372] then helped Hitler since 1941,[373][374][375][376][377] justified the Holocaust in 1946,[378] and promoted neo Nazi storm trooper gang[379][380][381] who guarded Adolf Eichmann[382] and has tortured a 19 years old girl, carved a swastika on her, as a revenge for killing Eichmann[383]) He did it in October, 1961 in the context of him protesting the Eichmann trial,[384] some 6 years before[385] the so-called "occupation" in 1967. An Israeli Arab replied to her on the falsehood of applying the term vs reality of Arabs in democratic Israel with full equal rights.[386]
(The A slur, and other like it, "Slur-du-jur"[387] the vicious slandering via incorrectness,[388] a demonization[389] terminology exclusively. [VS real apartheid Arab—Islamic Middle East.[390]]. Besides being hyperbolic with total inaccuracy [let alone the outrageous pretention as if one doesn't understand legitimate security concerns by this embattled state], and though it has been already used before, [including Omar Shakir,[391][392] an Arab-Muslim activist against Israel since he was a student[393] in 2010 Shakir's advocating for label apartheid while admitting it's tough, it's not the same as South Africa, such as voting rights for Arabs having rights, but that the strategy is effective, good to stand up to defenders of Israel...,[394] deported from Israel for his bigoted BDS activities,[395] then abusing the HRW platform.[396] As mentioned, the label was invented already in 1961 by that Arab-Nazi, and ever since the defamors attempted "updates" to "adjust" its misrepresentation as so to fit the pre determined buzzword]. still, it is actually even more harmful in repeating, promoting it. Mighty dangerous in an obsessive legitimization campaign focused on one certain State, especially given the unparalleled history prior its establishment in its historic place. No wonder it's used by virtually all openly promoters of [true, not the exaggerated] genocide).
J. Robbins exposed Hamas cruel game and radical left helping them, quoting Hamas spokesman as expressing the mentality behind the suffering in Gaza in a nutshell. "The decision to bomb Tel Aviv, Dimona and Jerusalem," boasting about the 3,000 rockets it has already fired at Israeli communities in recent days alone, "is easier for us than drinking water."
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You bet it is. As in the past, the calculation by Hamas, deemed a terrorist enterprise by the European Union, the United States and others, to use Palestinian civilians as human shields from which to attempt the murder of Israeli civilians, isn't just easy. It is a no-brainer.
Here is what Hamas knows: It will fire missiles at innocent Israelis, using innocent Palestinians in homes, hospitals and schools as collateral damage-in-waiting. No Israeli government can permit its civilians to be used as lambs to be slaughtered. The only way for it to stop the rockets is to stop those who fire them. Israel will try to minimize the harm to Gazans, even those whom Hamas is happy to sacrifice. Innocent Palestinians whom Hamas has effectively designated for death will die.
And that isn't all Hamas knows. It knows that the cycle of inanity on the left will be replayed again, with those holding themselves out as progressives blaming not Hamas for firing the rockets, but Israel for trying to protect itself from them....
One supposes that neither Pressley nor Ocasio-Cortez has had their families forced into underground shelters, while missiles aimed at annihilating them landed all around. The painful appearance is that neither congresswoman “sees” Israelis. Both seem to regard Israelis as somehow not quite human. Israeli life evidently holds little value or interest for Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez and certain of their colleagues.
“We cannot stand idly and complicitly by and allow the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people to continue,” said Pressley, opting for a platitude both sophomoric and inapposite. The idea that Hamas, which has consigned Palestinians to needless suffering since it seized control of the Gaza Strip in a 2007 coup, acts out of concern for Palestinians’ welfare is risible. No one need take Israel's word for it; ask Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas’ sworn enemy. Thumbing its nose at the opportunity to help construct a Palestinian state, Hamas has effectively enslaved Gazans in service of its own fanaticism. It is an organization that progressives should not indulge, let alone embrace.
Just as the congresswomen have no particular interest in standing in Israelis’ shoes, so too are they disinterested in material facts. Were it otherwise, they would know that over the past two decades Israel has repeatedly agreed to an independent Palestinian state encompassing the West Bank and Gaza, in return simply for peace. Each time the offer was made, Palestinian leadership rejected it. Whether Pressley has the vaguest idea of this when she whitewashes the targeting of Israeli civilians by invoking “the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people,” one can only guess.
Adding, that everyone has flaws, yetthe left's devil-may-care attitude toward the use of innocent Palestinians as human shields to terrorize innocent Israelis isn’t merely foolish. It badly hurts those on both sides of the conflict.
Among celebrities, it was mostly the usual suspects who criticized Israel, with a few celebs taking a more nuanced view. [398]Comedian John Oliver (asides from using the fake buzzwords, showing clearly, it's out of spite), his basic line was that asymmetrical deaths. Which is as stupid as one can be. In other words, the fact that Israel was successful in defending its citizents. Not to mention which side is seeking deaths, of both sides.
In response, another comedian, Lior Schleien, asked him how many Israelis would satisfy him.... that’s the point. The terminology. And the symmetry. Israelis don’t die enough. We keep trying. How many Israeli casualties will satisfy you? A child, do you count it as less than one? [399]
Another comedian, Tom Aharon went after the specifics of Oliver’s arguments, including one about the imbalance of military power between Israel and the Palestinians. “Does being stronger bear certain responsibilities? Sure. But does it automatically mean you’re at fault? Of course not. It almost sounds like you’re mad at us for not taking more casualties,” he says. “Claiming that imbalance is immoral is the privilege of those who don’t need to make the choice between their own safety and their care for others.”[400]
Boteach exposed the Hadid (Dua Lipa, of Muslim origin, dating Anwar Hadid brother of sisters Gigi and Bella Hadid, daughters of Arab "Palestinian" billionaire, Mohamed Hadid) family's hate campaign:[401]Take the example of Mohamed Hadid, the multi-millionaire father of supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid, all of whom are vilifying Israel with gusto to their tens of millions of followers on Instagram.
Instead, the blood libel is spreading.
His daughters, Bella and Gigi, joined by the singer Dua Lipa – who is purportedly dating their brother – have become an unholy trinity of Hamas terror-splaining
It-girls engaged in the outright demonization of Israel and the Jewish people.
Speaking to their nearly hundred million followers on social media, they have vilified the Jewish state with an all-consuming hatred.
They accused Israel – a nation built in large part by Holocaust survivors – of ethnic cleansing, even as millions of Jews in Israel descend from refugees savagely forced out of every Arab land. They condemn Israel for the military checkpoints that were erected only after 700 innocent Israeli Jews and Arabs were blown to bits by suicide bombers on buses and cafés, many of them sent by Hamas. They call Israel an apartheid state, even as it is the only country in world history to airlift Africans into freedom and sets the standard for multi-racial and multi-cultural coexistence, with millions of Christians, Muslims and Jews - black and white – living side by side as doctors, teachers and soldiers.
Theirs is a malicious ignorance. If Bella, Gigi and Dua cared about Palestinians, they’d condemn Hamas, a bloodthirsty death cult whose brutality toward women and tolerance for honor killings of young Palestinian girls is an abomination. They’d demand that Hamas stop its use of Palestinian children as human shields for military stockpiles and rocket launch pads, cease its regular murders of LGBT Palestinians, and reverse its denial of the Palestinian people’s right to elections, after fourteen autocratic years. But those demands don’t fit into a campaign that’s solely about hating and defaming Jews.
Worst of all, in defending the Hamas terrorists, Bella, Gigi and Dua make themselves apologists for the genocidal aspirations of Hamas, whose charter calls for the murder of Jews “wherever they are found.” Hamas seeks nothing less than a second holocaust: 3,500 shrapnel-packed rockets should be more than enough to prove they mean it.
'Memes have replaced morality': former NYT columnist Bari Weiss railed against AOC, the Hadid sisters and Dua Lipa after they all 'attacked Israel' for defending itself against a 'genocidal terrorist organization'.[402]
Bill Maher called out the hypocrisy of Instagram celebs like Bella Hadid, “Bella Hadid and her friends would run screaming to Tel Aviv if they had to live in Gaza for one day.”[403]
Reporters:[404]
...Hadid, whose dad is Palestinian, is among the most vocal pro-Palestinian voices ...Israel has accused the supermodel of anti-Semitism.
Bill Maher got into a fiery debate over the recent Israel-Gaza conflict on Friday night and took aim at the 'liberal media' over its news coverage before turning on progressives including supermodel Bella Hadid.
'One of the frustrations I had while I was off is that I was watching this war go on in Israel … and it was frustrating to me because there was no one on liberal media to defend Israel, really,' Maher, 65, began. He was referring to a recent COVID-19 diagnosis that forced him off the air last week.
'We've become this country now that we're kind of one-sided on this issue. And I'd also like to say off the bat I don't think kids understand, and when I say kids I mean the younger generations – you can't learn history from Instagram!' the 65-year-old Maher added. 'There's just not enough space.' Bill Maher got into a fiery debate over the recent Israel-Gaza conflict on Friday night and took aim at the 'liberal media' over its news coverage before turning on progressives... as New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof suggested Israel had committed 'possible war crimes' against Gaza.
'Well, Gaza fired 4,000 rockets into Israel. What would you say Israel should have done instead of what they did?' Maher asked.
'International lawyers are pretty clear that they have a right to defend themselves … but there is a sense that their response was probably a war crime because they did not sufficiently avoid civilian casualties,' Kristof explained.
'But they purposely put the rockets in civilian places. That's their strategy,' Maher responded.
Maher then went into a detailed explanation that countered a oft-repeated narrative that Israel 'stole' the land...
'The Jews have been in that area of the world since about 1200 B.C., way before the first Muslim or Arab walked the Earth. ... I mean, Jerusalem was their capital. So if it's who got there first, it's not even close,' Maher said.
'The Jews were the ones who were occupied by everybody; the Romans took over at some point and then the Persians and the Byzantines and then the Ottomans. So yes, there was colonization going on there. Beginning in the 19th century, they started to return to Palestine, which was never an Arab country. There was never a country called Palestine that was a distinct Arab country.
'Doesn't it behoove the people who rejected the half a loaf and continue to attack … Hamas's charter says they just want to wipe out Israel. Their negotiation position is 'You all die, Maher said. 'The two-state solution has been on the table a number of times. There could be an Arab capital in East Jerusalem now if Yasser Arafat had accepted that in 2003. He did not...
The State of Israel's official Twitter account said Hadid was advocating for sending 'Jews into the sea'...
'I mean, they have rejected this and went to war time and time again,' Mayer continued, 'And, you know, as far as Gaza goes, it's amazing to me that the progressives think that they're being progressive by taking that side of it, the Bella Hadids of the world, these influencers.
'I just want to say in February of this year, a Hamas court ruled that a unmarried woman cannot travel in Gaza without the permission of a male guardian. Really? That's where the progressives are? Bella Hadid and her friends would run screaming to Tel Aviv if they had to live in Gaza for one day.'
Kristof once attempted to defend Hadid's position and said that he didn't 'perceive' her as defending Hamas but for Gazan children who were killed during the fighting.
But Maher referred the columnist to that slogan Hadid chanted while taking part in a pro-Palestine march in New York City earlier this month.
'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.' The phrase is normally associated with the wiping out of Israel.
Earlier in the week, Bella Hadid attended the same pro-Palestinian protest as the man arrested for allegedly beating a bystander in Times Square last week and calling him a 'filthy Jew' - and posted a picture of him on her Instagram....
In her post including a picture of Awawdeh .. Hadid wrote: 'The way my heart feels … To be around this many beautiful, smart, respectful, loving, kind and generous Palestinians all in one place... it feels whole! We are a rare breed!!'
Police say Awawdeh was among a gang of demonstrators who four days later punched a Jewish man to the pavement then pummeled him while he was down, yelling anti-Semitic epithets.
He is charged with assault as a hate crime, gang assault, menacing, aggravated harassment as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon.On May 13, 2021,[406] a "contributor" piece appeared in the NYT by a vicious racist spreading Nazi type of venom (including his boasting, his child at the age of 5/6, asked him who created the Jews, and he said he couldn't answer her[405] In order to justify his war, Refaat stated that all Israel are "soldiers."[406] Which of course includes the elderly, the children, most of ultra Orthodox haredi who choose not to serve on the IDF for religious reasons, especiallly a large percentage of Jerusalem's neighborhoods who are as much of target by Arab Islamic racist attackers. The NYT May/2021 article falsely alleged that the Israel Defense Forces hit targets in the Gaza Strip with “no strategic value,” while implying that Israelis “draw straws” or “roll a dice” to decide “which block to annihilate” — essentially promoting a modern-day blood libel. On Sep 25, 2020, a twitter 'Lou' tweeted: 'Rabin was a peacemaker.' Refaat (@itranslate123) replied: 'So was Hitler.') - Gaza "author" Refaat Alareer, claiming his child supposedly "asked" him something about bombing.[407]
On May 22, 2021.
Two "Palestine" YouTubers with a Million viewers among them, had picked a Jewish neighborhood in London, harassed ordinary religious people on the Sabbath, taunted them with Holocaust messages on van.[408] (Related: One of those YouTubers, Ali Dawah, on Mar 2022, got shamed on his camera for hijacking Ukrainian suffering and making it all about 'Palestine'. Just As he did with any major event.[409])
Arab Ex-Porn star Khalifa called Israel 'apartheid' while (flaunting) drinking Nazi-era champagne.[410]
A famous Pakistani Muslim, (who 5 years earlier declared she's "devoting herself to Islam,"[411]) movie star, Veena Malik tweeted Hitler quote about killing Jews.[412]Pakistan's parliament, Muslim bigot Kanwal Shauzab, colleague from Imran Khan's ruling party called for Jihad against Israel and praised Hitler for killing Jews.[413]
Pakistan's top diplomat, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, made anti-Semitic remark during CNN interview about Gaza conflict Guardian of Walls.[414][Reminder, neither Islamic Pakistan nor Islamic Iran share any borders or have any "land disputes" with Israel.]
Naftali Bennett responded[415] to Oliver, Trevor Noah and Bella Hadid (daughter of Arab "Palestinian" Billionaire Mohammad Hadid, who also insinuated about throwing Jews into the sea).[416]
... Israel just wants to live in peace with its neighbors, "but what we won't do is commit suicide so you can make your snarky comedy bits.".... Many of these criticisms stemmed from the idea that there is a significant disparity in casualties, with Hamas suffering far more casualties than Israel, due in part to the Iron Dome defense system.
But Bennett sought to set the record straight for who he sarcastically called "The 'great philosophers' of our age."
Bennett... gave numerous examples of important Gazan facilities such as Shifa hospital and the Ayyobiya Boys School, both of which are also Hamas facilities that are used to help plan attacks on Israel or store weapons.
.... the example of the al-Jalaa building, where several media outlets like Al Jazeera and the Associated Press had offices. ...also housed a Hamas military ...
"So Bella, John and Noah, help me out here," he said. "If a terror organization like Hamas called to murder your families and launched thousands of missiles at your children while they're hiding inside hospitals, schools and media offices, what would you do?"
... two options. Do nothing and die, or respond.
"I don't know about you all, but we're gonna go with number two," Bennett explained.
... If celebrities like Noah, Oliver and Hadid want to help end this war, then they should be using their platforms to demand Hamas stop hiding behind innocent civilians, he said.
"Maybe you should ask Hamas operator, Fathi Hamad, to stop bragging that 'Palestinian women and children make the best human shields," .... On May 16, the Israel Twitter account responded to Hadid, who along with her sister Gigi Hadid had shared multiple pro-Palestinian messages on social media, many of which were controversial.
"When celebrities like @BellaHadid advocate for throwing Jews into the sea, they are advocating for the elimination of the Jewish State," the Israel Twitter account wrote.
"This shouldn't be an Israeli-Palestinian issue. This should be a human issue. Shame on you."... Responding to Oliver, Renana, a 10-year-old girl from Kfar Azza, a Gaza border community where rocket sirens have been ringing day and night for the past week and a half, recorded a video ...
"Every siren makes me cry and feel sad," Renana said, speaking well beyond her years. "Just so you know, my army is strong. However, this does not protect me from being afraid."
Journalist decried[417] the Hadid sisters' contribution to the increase in Anti Semitic attacks. Who "have three times more followers than the total Jewish population in the world as of 2021," and that "when they spread their Fake News and increase antisemitism in the world - for some reason, everyone is silent. And if you were wondering what about the Palestinians - you just proved that this is not the conflict that interests you, because what is the connection between it - and beatings that a Jew gets in New York." She said....these two supermodels blatantly circulated antisemitic posts, falsely portraying the Jews of Israel as white supremacists and colonialists, through fake news, blatant lies, infographics based on unreliable sources and a variety of techniques. With the goal to express support for the Palestinians, according to them. They removed the posts later, either because of outside criticism or out of an understanding that what underpinned the posts they shared with many millions around the world, is of course pure anti-Semitism. But in simple terms: both have three times more followers than the total world Jewish population, after Hitler - that one, of those posts "Hit... was right" - succeeded in exterminating more than a third of the Jewish population in the Holocaust. This is after my family members have been attacked only because of their identity.Book:[418]
The May 2021 conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas generated headlines around the world. However, much of the reporting ignored the history, funding, political dynamics, and other key components of the story. Hamas initiates conflict every few years. But the reporting rarely improves. Social media has only further clouded the picture. Hamas is rarely held responsible for its use of "human shields," blindly firing rockets at civilian areas in Israel, or diverting aid that should benefit the people of Gaza.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, has been the primary patron of Hamas since the group's inception in the late 1980s. Hamas has received additional assistance over the years from Qatar, Turkey and Malaysia. These countries are fomenting conflict, while others, such as Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, have tried to minimize it. Gaza is therefore ground zero in a struggle for the future stability of the Middle East.
The Biden administration has important choices to make. Its intent to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal could have significant consequences, given that sanctions relief to Iran will likely yield a financial boon for Hamas, along with other Iranian proxies. The Biden administration must also come to terms with "The Squad," a small but loud faction of the Democratic Party that seeks to undermine the US-Israel relationship.
Andrew Yang backtracked his staunch supporting tweet for Israel, after Muslim and hard left backlash against him and later said he cares about Palestinians while also supporting the State of Israel.[419]Author traces the process by which material pressures and intellectual fashions reshaped world opinion of Israel. Initially, terrorism, oil blackmail, and the sheer size of Arab and Muslim populations gave the world powerful inducements to back the Arab cause. Then, a prevalent new paradigm of Leftist orthodoxy, in which class struggle was supplanted by the noble struggles of people of color, created a lexicon of rationales for taking sides against Israel. Thus, nations can behave cravenly while striking a high-minded pose in aligning themselves on the Middle East conflict.[420]
The BLM first kept quiet, then on May 17, 2021, tweeted support for the Hamas terror side, wrapping it in a supposed struggle against so-called "colonialism."[421]Worth mentioning, In June, 2021, following the Guardian of walls, arch terrorist head of Hamas, Sinwar propagated on a lefty media outlet in the US trying to compare events in Jerusalem to Geroge Floyd, a journalist reminded that he should rather tell about discrimination by Arab Palestinians against Afro Palestinians, such as in the Old city.[422]
See related: Current racist Arab-Palestine
Media
Most of the mainstream media is already biased against Israel[423][424][425] (at least since 1970 by the BBC.[426]
It got so bad in 2021, with anti-Jewish attacks, ‘BBC’ ranked third, after Iran and Hamas, on Wiesenthal Center ‘top 10’ anti-Semitism list. Given the weight it has, that people trust it.[427]
After the BBC in 1970, then followed the French media in the early 1970s. [428]). By this specific situation it's even more illogical how the victim is portrayed as the aggressor.[429]Random example: The Associated Press called (Aug/2021) terrorists in Gaza throwing incendiary balloons onto Israeli civilians as "activists."[430]
Rarely do most media show images of Israeli women and children wounded, yet constantly bombard its most graphic images from the other side. Knowing fully well the responsibility of those that seek this outcome for this very reason. As terrorists see it [firing from residential places, schools, mosques, etc.] as a win win situation. If they save themselves and their equipment, they can keep it on. If many civilians on its side die,[431] Israel's image is even more in shambles and blooded photos are powerful in its sympathy and even recruitment.
Even supposed less openly biased anchors/journalists repeat an inaccurate line such as "Hamas responded with rockets." Forgetting the simple fact, it was Hamas who actually began the shelling. Like usual.
Bennett replied to MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin of Arab-Palestinian descent: "They are out to destroy us." Then pointed to articke 7 of Hamas's constitution which talks about killing Jews, laced with jihadi terminology.[432]Brendan O'Neill exposes the outrageous response in the West:[433]
Anti-Israel fury in the West has intensified to an extraordinary degree following an escalation of violence in the Middle East in recent days. Protests were instant and inflammatory. Israeli flags were burned on the streets of London. Social media was awash with condemnation. ‘IDF Soldier Recounts Harrowing, Heroic War Story Of Killing 8-Month-Old Child’, tweeted The Onion, to tens of thousands of likes. Israel must be boycotted, isolated, cast out of the international community, leftists cried. Western politicians, including Keir Starmer, rushed to pass judgement. ‘What’s the difference?’, said a placard at a march in Washington, DC showing the Israeli flag next to the Nazi flag. The Jews are the Nazis now, you see. Ironic, isn’t it? This is the question anti-Israel campaigners have never been able to answer: why do they treat Israel so differently to every other nation on Earth? Why is it child-killing bloodlust when Israel takes military action but not when Turkey or India do? Why must we rush to the streets to set light to the Israel flag but never the Saudi flag, despite Saudi Arabia’s unconscionable war on Yemen? Why is it only ‘wrong’ or at worst ‘horrific’ when Britain or America drop bombs in the Middle East but Nazism when Israel fires missiles into Gaza? Why do you merely oppose the military action of some states but you hate Israel, viscerally, publicly, loudly?
On May 14, Facebook shut down 'pro-Israel page with 77 million followers amid claims it had been targeted by radical Muslims posting hate speech.'[434]
In May, 2021:[435]
Violence broke out in Jerusalem and Gaza, and social networks in Arabic were filled with reactions such as "Hitler was [sic] right" and pictures of swastikas. Some of the responses were sent to cyberspace by bots. Many others were written by real people who grew up and were educated in an atmosphere of Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.Exposure of media's relationship with the controlling terrorists and its propaganda
The general fear by media working in Palestinian-Arab areas has been strong, especially since the infamous filming of the 2000 Ramalla lynch, the media.
The Associated Press, became very angry on May 15, 2021, after Israel gave them a warning to evacuate the building in Gaza before leveling it to the ground, stating it also housed Hamas intelligence.[436] (In June/2021, Israel elaborated to the AP on Hamas' work at the building jamming Israel's Iron Dome defense system signals[437]). The IDF watched as Hamas and the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terror groups utilized the warning time to remove objects — possibly munitions — from the building.
AP's spokesman later denied he knew Hamas worked in the vicinity. Despite AP reporter already revealing it in 2014. Including Hamas shooting from around media (human shields) and its influence over reporters / reporting.[438] The US confirmed, seeing the intelligence about Hamas operating in the building,[439] A spokesman for the White House National Security Council under former President Barack Obama, said that the building was long known as an operational center for the Islamic fundamentalist group.[440]
Thus, the obvious influence of the anti Israel jihadists was exposed even further.
Further more, already earlier, it was explained that "It is the liberal agenda of the media that gives Hamas legitimacy for its actions."[441]In 2018, M Friedman wrote:[442] "Early in that war, I complied with Hamas censorship in the form of a threat to one of our Gaza reporters & cut a key detail from an article: that Hamas fighters were disguised as civilians & were being counted as civilians in the death toll…"
Indeed, The news agency has a long, shameful record of regurgitating the terror group's lies.[443]
- The building demolished by IDF also housed anti-Israel Al Jazeera which is owned by Qatar supporter of Hamas.[444]
After the ceasefire, Al Jazeera was applauded in Gaza rally.[445]
- Writer exposed the NYT "emotive" front page re conflict and what it says about woke western media journalists fulfilling Hamas' agenda.[446]
- In June, 2021, "Islamic terror outfit Hamas honours Al Jazeera for its ‘high professionalism’ during the recent Israel-Gaza clashes."[447][448]
Haters at media
The BBC came under fire, after an Arab "palestine" based journalist in Ramallah, Tala Halawa, who staunchly supported Bella Hadid anti-Israel tweets (which was laced with that apartheid slur), was exposed for her "Hitler was right" and other hate tweets.[452][453][454][455][456][457]
This pro-Hitler's-genocide "journalist" also tried to sugarcoat the horrific ‘from the river to the sea Palestine will be free’ and ‘free, free Palestine’.[458]
This "palestinian" Hitler lady even had the audacity of accusing the BBC in its firing of her as "racist", no less...[459]
Islamic Republic of Iran- Hitleristic Genocidal campaign
Promoting genocide online at Guardian of Walls, including via Hitler, his genocide praising hashtags: [460]
Iranian state actors are intensifying their disinformation campaign on social media to spread discord and anti-Semitic tropes inside the U.S., two U.S. intelligence officials say.
…But within days of the conflict beginning last month in Israel and Gaza Twitter accounts linked to Iran were amplifying anti-Semitic messages in English, including the phrases “hitler was [sic] right” and “kill all jews” at a rate of 175 times per minute, according to analysis by Network Contagion Research Institute.Hitler admiration, violence promotion, death celebration at UN run schools
Report published in Aug, 2021 found:[461]Over 100 teachers and staff of schools run by UNRWA have been explicitly and publicly promoting hateful content, particularly against Jews and Israelis, including celebrating deaths.And: A total of 113 instances of incitement obtained by UN Watch from the public social media pages of the UNWRA employees shows that many celebrated and promoted violence.
As UNRWA chief proposed a so-called ‘neutrality training’, Israel rejected it and demanded Hitler-admiring teachers be fired. [462]
UNRWA on Hamas using its schools
UNRWA found (this time too) attack tunnel under one of its Gaza schools.
[463] From Arab journslist Khaled Abu Toameh:[464]UNRWA 'condemns the existence and potential use by Palestinian armed groups of tunnels underneath its schools (in Gaza) in the strongest possible terms It is unacceptable that students and staff be placed at risk in such a way.'In August, 2021, Hamas prevented UN team from working near terror tunnel by school.[465]
Ceasefire
On May 20, 2021, a ceasefire has been announced to go into effect at 2AM next day. Israeli officials, denied any agreements have been reached with Hamas.[466] Just a half an hour before the ceasefire to take effect, Hamas led barrages towards the 'envelope' area.[467]
It came after some 1,500 terror targets were attacked with thousands of munitions and about 4,360 attempts were made to launch from Gaza at Israel, of which about 3,400 crossed into the State of Israel, about 680 fell in the Gaza Strip and about 280 fell into the sea.[468] After the ceasefire, Biden said 'No peace until Middle East nations recognize Israel's right to exist.'[469] He then added his support for 'two states.'
Fatalities: numbers, "civilians" and the culprit
According to IDF data, about 200 terrorists were killed in the operation, including about 20 senior officials, but the army estimates that these figures are expected to rise in the coming days, after the bodies of the debris from Gaza are rescued.[470]
An analysis of fatalities by Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center records eight children under the age of 18 were killed by misfired Palestinian rockets during just the first two days of Israel’s defense operation. [471]
Study:[472]Much of the coverage and commentary surrounding the fighting in May between Hamas and Israel has focused on numbers, especially the much larger number of Palestinians than Israelis killed. The number of deaths is actually very low for such an intense conflict, a testament to Israel’s Iron Dome and civil defense systems, and its use of precision weapons and warnings aimed at minimizing Palestinian civilian deaths. Of course, Hamas aims to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible, but its rockets place both Israelis and Palestinians in peril, because many of those rockets—in this case 680—misfire and explode inside Gaza. The death and destruction caused is, of course, usually blamed on Israel. The question addressed here is how many Palestinians are likely to have been killed by these errant Palestinian rockets in May. The estimate arrived at is 91, amounting to 36% of the alleged Palestinian death toll.
Terrorists murdered 13 and injured 797.[473]
Though the Gaza based Arab Palestinians "reported" that most of their purported killed were civilians, they did post posters, bragging about the "martyrs" pictured with weapons.[474]Hamas has a record of lying about fatalities.[475] Even biased NYT in its own propaganda piece had to insert the line: Human rights researchers say Hamas strictly controls information about civilian deaths in Gaza to hide its losses and failures...[476]
An example in the media, even earlier: Anti-Israel Ishaan Tharoor,[477][478] included terrorists in his "list" of supposed "civilians" killed in 2014 war.[479]
Fact, Hamas Rockets Killed More Palestinians than Israel's. As 4½ times as many rockets hit Palestinian populated areas than Israeli ones.[480] In conclusion, analyst: "a 10-day air campaign in a dense urban environment – which I remind you was undertaken in self-defense, after Israel was attacked, in which there were only 26 civilian casualties as a result. This is a record that no other military force in history, even the most advanced Western armies, can match."[481]Finding:[482]
We investigated 50 incidents during the recent fighting in Gaza in which "human rights" organizations reported civilians killed. We have cross-referenced data, locations and statements and now we are showing that the "civilians" are in fact terrorists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.Researchers:[483]
- As recognized by international law, Israel has the legal right to employ the force necessary to defend itself. President Biden, on May 16, 2021, “reaffirmed his strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself against rocket attacks from Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza.”
- From a young age, Palestinian children are indoctrinated by the Palestinian leadership to seek death through war. For example, the daughter of a Hamas official was recorded saying, “If we die, we will die as Martyrs for the sake of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.” Such indoctrination is reinforced in summer camps for children and culminates in the conscription of children into military units, in direct violation of international humanitarian law.
- In the course of the 11-day conflict, from May 10 to May 21, 2021, Hamas launched 4,300 rockets at Israeli civilians in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law, which calls to protect civilian populations during military operations. Article 25 of the 1907 Hague Regulations specifically prohibits attacks or bombardment of towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings that are undefended.
- Hamas unapologetically uses its own civilians as human shields, unconcerned with the fatal ramifications of its actions. British Colonel Richard Kemp designated Hamas as “the first ‘army’ in history to use their own civilian populations as a primary weapon of war.” On May 12, 2021, UN Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland told the UN Security Council, “Hamas and other militants’ indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars from highly populated civilian neighborhoods into civilian population centers in Israel violates international humanitarian law, is unacceptable, and has to stop immediately.”
- Israel makes a concerted effort to limit civilian casualties. The IDF engages in the practice of “roof knocking” to warn civilians prior to an attack on Hamas targets. In addition, before Israeli attacks, civilians receive phone calls advising them to evacuate. Israeli drones watch from above, and attacks are permitted only after it is confirmed that the building has been evacuated.
- Hamas demonstrates no respect for international humanitarian law designed to protect innocent civilians. Therefore, it is vital that Hamas be held accountable for its illegal actions in international forums and international courts of law. Without doing so, there will be no justice for those who have suffered from the grave human rights abuses committed by Hamas.
It has been noted,[484]Certain facts are irrefutable. The terrorists are motivated by hatred and aim to wound or kill innocent women, men and children. Israel, by contrast, is motivated by the legal and moral imperative to protect and preserve life, and is always entirely justified in acting in its own self-defense...It is impossible to obtain reliable data on civilian casualties in Gaza. Data that is provided to and reported by the media come from the Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. What we do know — what is proven — is that Hamas commits war crimes by using Palestinians as human shields. No place in Gaza is safe from Hamas. Rockets, mortars, rifles and missiles are stored or fired from schools, apartment buildings, offices, mosques and hospitals.The Arab Nazi Hitler fan, "Palestinian" specialist for BBC, Halawa, the Hitler was right" lady, also responded to an Israel-based Twitter user, who had disputed Palestinian casualty figures, by saying: “ur media is produced by ur zionist government in order 2 produce ignorant people.”.[457]
Related: Clip shows how "Palestinian" operatives stage, prepare kids to play, fallen or injured for press. Actors in staging are "Palestinian" press and its Red Crescent too. It's this racist hatred motivated industry of such drama fake imagery that incites the Arab masses.[485]Hamas head plays "hero" surrounded by civilians
Report:[486]The Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip emerges from his hiding place and begins to provoke Israel, When he calls on her to try and eliminate him ... He was careful to walk around surrounded by bodyguards and residents of the Gaza Strip who served as his "human shield," assuming that the IDF would not eliminate him when surrounded by civilians.UN condemns Hamas, Hezbollah for its use of Human shields, wider anti-Jewish attacks
In July, 2021, the UN condemned Hamas and Hezbollah use of human shields. It passed a resolution to condemn terrorism directed at Jews for the first time in its history, as well as the use of the internet as a recruitment tool for terrorists.[487]
UN Anti-Israel "human rights" panel
All three panelists set up by the UN have a history of activism and inflammatory rhetoric against Israel. [488] Shocker.[489] As well as ties to a number of "Palestinian" organizations.[490]
See related: Pallywood
August/2021 attack
First rocket attack by Hamas on Israel after operation Guardian of walls, was on August 16, 2021, targeting sderot residents.[491][492]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Amir Bohbot, This is how the top Hamas engineers were eliminated in the "Guardian of the Walls": "They were buried", Walla!, 07/05/2022.
During the operation, the IDF launched the "Goliath City" plan, the details of which are revealed for the first time, in which a huge branch branched off in tunnels under civilian buildings in Gaza City. "
Hamas operatives inside a terrorist tunnel - Gaza Strip, August 2014 (Photo: Reuters)
Operation Guardian of the Walls began on May 10, 2021, Monday, with a significant air force attack that included 130 terrorist targets. Hamas understood that the IDF was facing an extensive operation and not a one-off response.... That evening, the chief of staff approved the "Goliath city" attack plan... In a bunker, Hamas' research, development and production of weapons were hidden inside a ramified system of top tunnels. The challenge of attacking the bunker was enormous, as it was built (not by chance) under buildings containing civilians.
Researchers who analyzed the engineering infrastructure that helped build the huge bunker found that the "city" also has tunnels that lead to the heart of the bunker from nearby buildings.
After countless planning, training, exercises and technique development processes, the Air Force under the direct command of Amikam Nurkin prepared to attack the bunker.
At around 05:20 on Thursday morning, the Air Force attacked in more than four minutes more than 10 shafts that led to the bunker.
"We told ourselves that it was better not to attack the heart of the bunker, due to the fear of harming civilians, so we attacked the openings and so they were buried," said a source who was exposed to the operational plan before the execution.
"The results were impressive and accurate. If they had missed one shaft they would have managed to escape from the bunker."
According to IDF estimates, apart from senior Hamas figures who were killed, 50% of the rocket's production capacity and 75% of the Islamic Jihad's production capacity were damaged in the operation.
Beyond that, in the internal discussions in the defense establishment, the insight arose that after Operation Goliath, it will be difficult for Hamas to rebuild its military force.
The question then arose about the attack on the "metro", a ramified system of tunnels that Hamas had built for more than 15 years under Gaza City and by which escaped unmanned aerial vehicles....
"They invested everything in it, and the IDF destroyed it in the 'Guardian of the Walls.' Does that mean there will be no tunnels in Gaza?" Saar continued. "There will be tunnels in Gaza... but the tunnels - in a completely different event.
Now they already understand that they can die in the tunnels, now they understand that they can not move everything to the tunnels. Now they understand that we have a huge advantage over them and they need a different systemic idea."- ↑ Jonah Mandel (@mandeljonah) Tweeted: Air raid sirens followed by booms in south Jerusalem 11:04 AM · May 10, 2021
- ↑ "Rocket barrage on the south, one person injured. Gaza terrorists fire barrages before ceasefire begins. One rocket directly hits building in Eshkol Regional Council, injuring one person." Elad Benari, May 21, 2021 12:47 AM | updated: 2:07 AM. A ceasefire aimed at bringing an end to the latest escalation in Gaza went into effect at 2:00 a.m. on Friday morning. At 12:30 a.m., an hour and a half before the ceasefire began, terrorists fired a barrage of rockets at communities located near the Gaza border.
- ↑ Netanyahu: "We caused maximum damage to Hamas with a minimum of casualties to Israel". May 21, 2021 https://20il.co.il/?p=511090
- ↑ Even with a ceasefire, Israel and Hamas will not stop fighting each other, Economist, May 20, 2021. [1]. ...By the end Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, had fired some 4,000 rockets at Israel. ... Were it not Jerusalem, it would have been some other... ... Hamas's policies make it more like a shooting range. The group sometimes shows little interest in actually governing. Its schools and hospitals can be used for storing weapons. The idea is that Israel won't attack such sites or, if it does, Hamas can use it for propaganda. The militants were surprised by how hard Israel hit back after they launched their first barrage on May 10th. Still, even as the death toll mounted, they did not stop.
- ↑ Ido Levy, How Iran Fuels Hamas Terrorism, Washington Institute, Jun 1, 2021.
After playing a key role in the group’s military development for years and navigating deep ideological rifts, Tehran has renewed its extensive sponsorship in ways that contributed directly to the recent bloodshed in Gaza.
...The group later began developing high-level contacts with Iran when the Islamic Republic convened two conferences on Palestine in 1990-1991.- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "The need for a Marshall Plan in the Gaza Strip", Bradley Martin and Dr. Liram Koblentz-Stenzle, The Washington Times, May 18, 2021.
- ↑ What do we know about the number of rockets fired at Israel? By Seth J. Frantzman May 17, 2021 22:01. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/what-do-we-know-about-the-number-of-rockets-fired-at-israel-668339
- ↑ Andres Oppenheimer, Cuba, Venezuela condemn Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, Miami Herald, May 15, 2021.
Some Latin American countries endorse Hamas’ violence against Israel. It’s shameful... There is a good reason why the United States and the 27-member European Union officially consider Hamas a terrorist group: It deliberately uses violence against civilians to achieve its goals... As recently as May 7, Fathi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, called on Palestinians to “cut off the heads of the Jews with knives” in a speech broadcast on Al-Aqsa TV in Gaza, according to a translation by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute.- ↑ Senior Hamas Official Fathi Hammad To Palestinians In Jerusalem: Buy 5-Shekel Knives And Cut Off The Heads Of The Jews, Memri, May 7, 2021
- ↑ Bar Shem-Ur @Bar_ShemUr Tweeted (May 12, 2021):
Let me doubt the narrative that the long-running conflict in Sheikh Jarrah has ignited the fire. A month earlier, East Jerusalem residents had played "Hit the Haredi" on Tik Tok. A week later, riots in Jaffa under the pretext of "changing the character of the neighborhood." For weeks, Hamas has been trying to set fire to the area and uses everything as an excuse for a political conflict between it and Fatah.- ↑ Mahmoud Abbas’s default ploy: Antisemitic incitement Ruthie Blum, JPost, May 6, 2021
- ↑ Amichai Chikli Rotter.net [May 21, 2021] The masses shouting in Lod, Acre, Taibeh and Umm al-Fahm "In spirit and blood we will redeem Palestine" and Khybar Khybar...
- ↑ Carmel Libman, "Preparing for the possibility of another night of violence: The police are changing policy in Acre, organizing a protest in Haifa. Violent clashes in the mixed cities are expected to resume tonight against the backdrop of Nakba Day and after a relatively quiet night... Molotov cocktails in the mosque are ready for ignition...
N12, May 15, 2021- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 May 2021 Arab insurgency must be a wake-up call, Kohelet, 29 Shevat 5782 | 31 January 2022.
In May 2021, as thousands of rockets from Hamas-controlled Gaza were fired at Israel during “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” thousands of Israel’s Arab citizens, especially in mixed cities such as Lod, Ramle, Akko and Jaffa, rose up in open revolt against the state. For days, Israeli Arabs rioted, destroyed synagogues, vandalized Jewish property, even beat and murdered Jews in the streets. The country faced some of its worst internal violence in decades. Arab citizens of Israel, motivated by separatist and anti-Israel tendencies, brought the Palestinian struggle to the Israeli heartland.
International press coverage quickly fit the riots into comfortable categories borrowed from the United States—Jews as (supposed) "racist" oppressors, Arabs as the Israeli version of African-Americans. This narrative, unmoored from any real understanding of the events, has become another exhibit in the delegitimization campaign against Israel. Israel’s supposed discriminatory practices against its Arab citizens, as anti-Israel activists claim the May 2021 riots show, are used as more proof that Israel is a racist and illegitimate state. Therefore, it is essential that the truth of the May 2021 Arab uprising be presented accurately to the international audience.
In the international coverage of the events, the nationalist dimension of the uprising was quickly covered over. Some media sources, such as The Associated Press, chose to portray the violence as a result of Arab frustration...
Human Rights Watch (HRW), the pseudo-human rights organization that is one of the main proponents of the campaign to isolate, demonize and boycott the Jewish state, called upon the United Nations to "investigate" Israel’s supposedly discriminatory and high-handed response to Arab protests. In HRW’s retelling of the events: “Israeli authorities responded to the May events in Lod by forcibly dispersing Palestinians protesting peacefully while using inflammatory rhetoric and failing to act even-handedly as Jewish ultra-nationalists attacked Palestinians. This apparent discriminatory response underscores the reality that the Israeli state apparatus privileges Jewish Israelis at the expense of Palestinians, wherever they live and irrespective of their legal status.”
This recasting of the violence perpetrated by Israel’s Arab citizens as Israel’s version of the Black Lives Matter protests whitewashes the nationalist and Islamist motives that animated the rioters. By falsely portraying the situation as, at best, ethnic strife between Jews and Arabs, or at worst a racist crackdown on innocent protesters, the true roots of the violence are covered up.
Unless there is a willingness to openly acknowledge and confront the growth of a large and hostile Arab fifth column, Israel will remain vulnerable to subversion and threats carried out by its citizens during wartime. The growing radicalization of Israel’s Arab citizens and their willingness to openly side with Israel’s enemies during wartime threatens any hope of peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs and poses an acute threat to Israeli security. This article intends to provide English-speaking readers with the truth behind May 2021’s Arab uprising.
How did it start?
Throughout the Muslim holy (- for them) month of Ramadan, which began on April 12, the Palestinian Authority regularly broadcast anti-Israel incitement, warning Palestinians to "defend" the Temple Mount from supposed Israeli encroachment. Official Fatah social media channels fueled the flames of violence with messages such as these: “Death and not submission, raise your hand … Millions of Martyrs are marching to Jerusalem with spirit, with blood, we will redeem you Al-Aqsa Mosque.” (It should be noted that the claim that Israel or the Jews endanger Al-Aqsa is a baseless claim that has inspired Arab violence against Jews for a century.)
These calls for violence were promptly answered, especially by Arab youths in Jerusalem. The outburst of widespread violence in May 2021 was preceded by several weeks of anti-Semitic and nationalist attacks against Jews in Jerusalem. Throughout Ramadan, eastern Jerusalem Arabs filmed themselves attacking random Jews, especially Haredi (i.e., visibly Jewish) Jews and uploading the videos to social media such as Tiktok. For example, in April, two Arab teenagers filmed themselves slapping a haredi man on the Jerusalem light rail, knocking his glasses off and humiliating him.
On the night of May 8, one of the last nights of Ramadan, hundreds of Palestinians barred themselves in the Al-Aqsa mosque following prayers. The rioters threw stones and firecrackers at the police, leading to large-scale violence. May 10 was Jerusalem Day, which features an annual march by tens of thousands of Jews throughout the streets of Jerusalem’s Old City, celebrating the reunification of the city in 1967.
The Hamas terrorist organization issued an ultimatum that unless Israel cancel the march and pulled back its security forces from the Temple Mount, it would fire rockets at Jerusalem. When Israel refused Hamas’s diktats over its activities in its capital city, Hamas fired several rockets at Jerusalem, marking the formal beginning of “Operation Guardian of the Walls.”
Israel’s Arab citizens join in the violence
Arab citizens of Israel quickly joined in the violence. In Jaffa, Arab residents burned trash cans, vandalized bus stops and threw fireworks at police. What began as protests soon deteriorated into mass disturbances and then escalated to attacks on property, security forces and civilians. On May 13, Arab gangs beat an IDF soldier, breaking his skull and sending him to the hospital in serious condition. There were similar riots throughout mixed cities such as Lod, Ramle, Akko and Haifa.
The epicenter of the violence was in Lod, a mixed Jewish-Arab city situated close to Israel’s national airport. On May 10, hundreds of Arab residents of Lod began rioting, targeting synagogues, Jewish-owned cars and homes, as well as city property. The violence escalated the next afternoon, following the shooting of an Arab man who took part in attacks on his Jewish neighbors.
After his funeral, hundreds of Arabs left Lod’s central mosque and proceeded to attack Jewish homes. Some tore down the Israeli flag hanging in the main square of the Old City and replaced it with the PLO flag. Throughout the event, nationalist and anti-Israel slogans were heard such as “With fire and blood, we shall redeem Palestine” and “O Khaybar, the armies of Muhammad will return” (referencing a seventh-century massacre of Jews).
Arab gangs blocked main thoroughfares throughout the city, looking for Jews to beat and lynch. One victim of Arab violence was Yigal Yehoshua, a 56-year-old who was stoned to death in his car. Eight Arabs, six residents of Lod and two Palestinians, were later charged with aggravated murder motivated by nationalist hatred.
Akko, another city often hailed as a paradigm of Jewish-Arab coexistence, also suffered intense Arab rioting. On May 10, the day before the outbreak of mass violence, Arabs assaulted Jewish children at the Noam Herzog school, leaving several with light injuries. The most extreme violence was carried out the next day, on May 11. Arab rioters fired on police officers, attempted to lynch Jewish citizens and firebombed Jewish businesses, such as the famed Uri Buri restaurant and the Effendi hotel.
Despite efforts to evacuate the hotel, acclaimed Israeli aerospace scientist Avi Har-Even, 85, succumbed to his wounds after being trapped in the burning building. 37-year-old Elad Barzilai suffered serious injuries after being stoned by Arab gangs while crossing the street. Mor Ganashvili, a Jewish man, was pulled from his car by Arab rioters and severely beaten with stones and metal bars. Mordechai Katz, another Jewish resident of the city, lost consciousness after being surrounded and beaten. There were calls issued from the loudspeakers of the central mosque of Akko to defend the city from “settlers,” i.e. Jews.
Avi Har-Even (center), former head of the Israel Space Agency, died on June 6, 2021. Source: Twitter. The attacks on Jews were by no means confined to mixed cities. In the Negev, Bedouins knocked down street lights along a major highway, set up makeshift roadblocks and stopped drivers to ask if they were Jewish. Upon an affirmative answer, the Bedouin threw cement blocks at the drivers. Five Bedouin were later charged under Israel’s anti-terror law with offenses motivated by nationalist, racial and religious hatred.
After the violence died down, the Central District Fire Station released statistics showing the shocking scale of the damage. In little more than a week, Arab rioters set 10 synagogues and 112 Jewish residences on fire, looted 386 Jewish homes and damaged another 673, and set 849 Jewish cars on fire. There were also 5,018 recorded instances of Jews being stoned. Three Jews were murdered and more than 600 were hurt. Over 300 police officers were injured in disturbances in over 90 locations across the country.
By contrast, no mosques were damaged, one Arab home was firebombed (by Arabs that mistook it for a Jewish home), 13 Arab homes and cars were damaged, and 41 Arab bystanders were hurt by hurled stones. There were also two attacks by Jewish extremists against Arab bystanders, in Bat Yam and Herzliya. These attacks were widely condemned by Israeli authorities, including by the Chief Rabbi and political figures from right to left. The perpetrators have been arrested and charged with racially-motivated crimes.
These numbers clearly show that the violence was largely Arab instigated and led, and should be enough to dispel the false narrative of “extremists on both sides.”
Looking Palestinian nationalism in the face
In the aftermath of the violence, Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev admitted that the Arab riots took the country and the security forces by surprise. After wide-scale arrests of the rioters, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) estimated that close to 85% of those involved came from a criminal background. However, a survey of indictments served in northern Israel carried out by the Kohelet Policy Forum shows clearly that more than 90% of those charged had no previous criminal record.
Figures in Arab society have admitted that Palestinian nationalism was the catalyst and fuel for the riots, and warned that the violence will repeat itself in the future. In a documentary on the riots in Akko produced by the Kan 11 station, Bulus Nahas, an Akko city council member, was emphatic: “We will go out again. … It [the violence] shouldn’t deter us. … We believe that all evil is rooted in the Occupation. … If the matter is related to the Palestinian people, of which we are a part, we will go out.”
Despite the growing social and economic integration of Israel’s Arab citizens, there remain large swaths of Israeli Arabs who identify with the Palestinian struggle against Israel, oppose the Jewish state and are willing to engage in violence against Israel’s citizens, soldiers and security forces. The May 2021 riots exposed Israel’s soft underbelly—thousands of hostile Arab citizens willing to aid Israel’s enemies during wartime.
Then-president Reuven Rivlin called on Arab leadership to reject and condemn the violence: “These sights must not be repeated. We must not be held captive by the murderous terrorists from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad who shoot at Israeli citizens indiscriminately. … The people of Israel, Jews as well as Arabs, need to hear the Arab leadership speak in a clear and decisive voice against the rampant violence, against the attack on synagogues, against this wild rampage.”
So far, this call has not been heeded honestly and forcefully.
Policy-makers and security experts are openly discussing the dangers of Israeli Arabs blocking major highways and preventing troop movements during military operations. Others are warning that the tens of thousands of illegal weapons held by Arab citizens, among them criminal gangs, may be pointed at Jews in the case of another nationalist insurgency.
In the 1920s throughout Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, the Jews of the Yishuv often found themselves at the mercy of marauding Arab nationalist gangs. Hundreds of Jews were murdered in the Arab revolts of the 1920s-1940s by the ideological predecessors of Hamas and the PLO. The events of May 2021 raise the real fear that tens of thousands of Arab citizens of Israel have not internalized Israel’s permanency and seek to emulate the pre-state gangs.
Israel cannot afford to be soft on nationalistically-motivated crime or attacks on its citizens and security forces. It cannot allow the continuation of the absurd situation in which many of its Arab citizens are willing to enjoy the benefits and privileges of Israeli citizenship, while actively working against the state and its existence. The May 2021 Arab insurgency must be a wake-up call to Israeli Jews and Arabs who seek to peacefully coexist.
- ↑ Asaf Golan: 'How do we move forward alongside people who have desecrated synagogues?' It is a fact that thousands of people who were seen as friends, as partners in the same city, were discovered within two days as reminiscent of active participants in pogroms against Jews. Normative young men, men and women, old men and toddlers, walked around with hateful fire in their eyes and shouted "Itbach al Yehud" or "Khayver Khaybar al Yehud." May 13, 2021.
- ↑ 'According to the hatred in the eyes of the young people in Lod - victims are only a matter of time.' Shlomi Diaz, 11/5/2021. Any explanation or reasoning they try to give to the severe riots in Lod, as well as in Ramla, will not be satisfactory. These were not demonstrations of protest or support as they tried to explain. This is a war.
- ↑ 'When you say Lod.' Yair Yaakovi on the experiences as observor on the roof of the building in Lod. May 20, 2021. The shouts of "Itbah al-Yahud" from the balconies of the neighbors opposite did not exactly lift the mood and depressingly complete the full picture, which is the understanding that the illusion of coexistence shatters before our eyes in the most painful and obvious way.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Muslim Rioters in Israel Burn 10 Synagogues, 112 Jewish Homes. UWI, May 21, 2021. Twenty-eight mosques were exposed as weapons caches. Similarly, 22 Muslim prayer houses were documented as being used to incite riots against Jews.
- ↑ (The following is but first examples of long chain of similar events)Indictments were filed against lynchings of Jews in Jerusalem, Jerusalem Net, 25.05.21.
The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office submitted to the city's district court three indictments against six Arabs who are accused of acts of lynching and violence against Jews, carried out with a nationalist motive.
The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office submitted to the city's district court three indictments against six defendants for a terrorist act of aggravated assault, participation in disorderly conduct and rioting in Jerusalem. One indictment was filed against three residents of East Jerusalem for a terrorist act of aggravated malicious wounding and rioting offenses, attempted assault on a police officer under aggravated circumstances, throwing a stone or object at a means of transportation under aggravated circumstances and willfully damaging a vehicle - each according to their part, and this after they participated in disturbances and rioting violent
According to the details of the indictment, on April 24, around midnight, many dozens of rioters began to gather on Pierre Van Passen Street in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. They noticed AR, a young man with a Jewish appearance who was making his way with his dog towards his home in the neighborhood of Shmuel the Prophet. Some of the rioters started shouting "foreigner, foreigner", "settler, settler" and "hit, hit". When all the rioters heard the calls and noticed that it was a man with a Jewish appearance, they started throwing stones at him. The victim tried to escape, but the rioters, including the three accused, surrounded him from all sides and began to attack him with punches, kicks, wooden clubs, stones, rocks and various objects, as well as with an electric shocker aimed at all parts of his body, and this out of an ideological nationalist motive and with the aim of making him serious injury The victim continued his attempts to escape, but the rioters did not stop the brutal attack. At some point they noticed a police car approaching the street, and began to flee. The victim managed to get to his feet and also started running in an attempt to escape to the police. One of the accused picked up a metal supermarket cart that was on the spot, threw it forcefully at him and hit him in the center of his body. The defendants are charged with additional offenses of participating in a prohibited gathering, attempting to attack police officers with a cold weapon and in conjunction with others with the aim of hindering them or failing them when they fulfill their duties according to the law, throwing an object at a means of transport, and more. Another indictment was filed against a 15-year-old minor, for a terrorist act of aggravated sabotage, a terrorist act of throwing a stone at a means of transport and racially motivated willful sabotage. According to the indictment, on Jerusalem Day two weeks ago, the minor participated in a riot and threw stones at a vehicle in which three Jews were traveling near Rockefeller Junction, and this out of an ideological nationalist motive. During the lynch attempt by the rioters on the car's passengers, the accused kicked one of them. After that, he picked up a large stone with both hands, ran towards the vehicle, and threw it into the back seat of the vehicle, from a distance of less than a meter, all out of a nationalist motive and with the intention of harming one of its occupants and causing him serious injury. A policeman who came running to the arena fired his weapon three shots into the air and pushed the rioters away.
The third indictment was filed against two minors for a terrorist act of grievous bodily harm under aggravating circumstances and a racially motivated willful acquisition. On May 13, while the defendants were busy cleaning the street, one of them noticed a man with a Jewish-religious appearance riding his bicycle at the Nablus Gate in Jerusalem. One of the accused hit him with the wiper stick, and he fell off his bike. The victim tried to escape from the scene, but the accused continued to chase him, attacked and hit him several times with the sticks of brooms and mops in their hands. At some point the victim managed to escape with his bike and called for help. As a result of the attack, the complainant's nose was broken.
The prosecution asked the court to detain the accused until the end of the legal proceedings against them.- ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Deputy leader of northern branch of Islamic Movement arrested." Shin Bet says Kamal Al-Khatib used his public status to stir up riots on Temple Mount and continued to do so despite warnings to stop. INN, May 14, 2021.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Ishay Fridman: The entire leadership of the Lod Arabs sided with the terrorist cell when they were released from prison. Al-Baz, council members, clerics and senior members of the Arab community in Lod, Ramla and Jaffa. Some are photographed today with senior police officers and talk about coexistence. All the clergy of the Great Mosque in Lod came to pay their respects to the released prisoners. Amir Nafar is a part of them today. May 20, 2021.
- ↑ In mid-May, prominant Arab businessman linked with politician incited to violence. Two months later it was revealed he was actually a spy for Iran:
The Bedouin businessman that Ya'alon ran with him to the Knesset is stirring up violence in the city of Lod?, ICE, May 16, 2021 - Yakub Abu Elkien, one of the leading contractors in the sector, with a particularly sharp message in light of the escalation: "We will cut off every hand that touches Al-Aqsa. We are not afraid of the occupation."
Ad Kan (@adkanorg) Tweeted: Various sources including Abu Elkien himself claimed that we were lying and that this was not his intention, and that criminal organizations in general are responsible for the riots in Lod and we are just agitating. So here's not only that Elkien incited violence it turns out that he is also an Iranian spy. July 12, 2021The Israel Police reopened the investigation file for incitement offenses and handed over the investigation file to the State Attorney's Office for the purpose of making a decision and for the purpose of amending the indictment against Yacoub Abu-Elkien. Advocate Yosef Ackerman, spokesman for the organization "Ad Kan", filed a complaint with the police in May against the incitement carried out and uploaded by Abu Elkien in which he called for the murder of Jews, after an indictment was filed against him on suspicion of providing information to the enemy and contact with a foreign agent. Various media publications have shown that Abu-Alkien was questioned by the GSS after the incitement was published and even warned about his actions. Several months after the indictment was filed by the State Attorney's Office against Abu Elkien for espionage and contact with a foreign agent and after the indictment did not address any incitement offenses from the Lod events, the organization "Ad Kan" wrote a letter to the State Attorney's Office to understand why this section does not appear in the indictment. The State Attorney's Office's response states that no material or complaint regarding Abu Elkian's incitement was forwarded to them. In light of this answer, the organization "Ad Kan" contacted the Israel Police in order to understand why the case was not transferred and what the status of the case was. In response to the request, a town station in the south, to which the case was transferred, replied that the case was closed due to an "unfortunate mistake" but in light of the referral and understanding of the importance of the case, the police reopened the case and forwarded it to the State Attorney's Office. Adv. Yosef Ackerman, spokesman for the organization "Ad Kan", stated: "We are sorry that the Israel Police closed the case at the time and did not immediately act to prosecute Abu Elkien for incitement. On the other hand, we welcome the correction of the accident and call on the State Attorney's Office to amend the indictment soon "It should be emphasized that this is a public figure who, in his actions, encouraged and incited the crowd in wall-guard incidents. The rioters and their senders must be brought to justice."
- Hamal, Sep 29, 2021, Following a request from the organization Ad-Kan ("Up to Here"):
The police reopened the case against Yacoub Abu-Elkien [Abu al-Kaeean] following his calls in Operation The Guardian of the Walls.- ↑ Kalman Liebskind, Coverage of the events of Arab violence remind us that something in our media is distorted, Maariv, May 1, 2021.
For the Israeli press, if Arabs attack Jews, throw Molotov cocktails, or shout slogans in support of Hamas - it's probably because some Jew did something wrong.
Is violence a bad thing? Is it something to be condemned to? Is a behavior that should be condemned? Seemingly, the answer is simple. of course. Why only ostensibly? Because the events of the last two weeks have reminded us - not for the first time, and probably not for the last time either - that in the Israeli media the reference to violence stems first and foremost from the question of who uses it. As in any round of Arab violence, the simple journalistic rule states that there is no bad Arab, there is a bad Arab for him. And if an Arab attacks Jews in Jaffa, throws Molotov cocktails in Jerusalem, or shouts in support of Hamas in Umm al-Fahm, it is likely that some Jew did something wrong. And the more this Jew differs in his appearance and worldview from the mainstream media - and Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, the Rosh Yeshiva in Jaffa, is just one example - the greater the understanding of violence against him. This is the formula. She works almost always.
Muhammad Deif's Soldiers
Take the recent violent riots in Jerusalem. Who is responsible for them, according to the average of reports and interviews in the media? The rioting Arabs? No way. Those responsible are fences set by the police on the steps at the Nablus Gate. Guilt settings. For a whole week, the media has been inflating this nonsense. Already left the fact that the Arabs riot here once in a while, and the previous times they did it - there were no fences on the agenda. They also abandoned the fact that even after definitions were removed, videos and testimonies of groups of Arabs who continued to attack Jews continued to be published. But in what world can someone's allegations of misconduct by the police put him off well when he uses violence? In what world can journalists see pictures of hundreds of people standing in the center of the capital, singing hymns to a terrorist organization, attacking policemen and shouting "We are Muhammad Deif's soldiers", interviewing them with understanding for their plight, and giving what they do the romantic nickname "Battle on the Stairs"? Do you think the police were wrong when they put up fences at the Nablus gate? Maybe you're right, well, so what? I once received a report from a police officer, who thought he saw me talking on the phone while driving, and I declare to you here that things were not and were not created. Would anyone understand if I threw a Molotov cocktail at him, in response to his wrong decision? But when it comes to the media and the evenings, everything goes wrong. You do not have a violent Arab, who does not have a defense attorney with a journalist certificate. Arab violence always has explanations. Once it's settings, once it's Benzi Gupstein, once it's the magnetometers. Remember what happened here after ... Muhammad Abu Khadir? This murder was shocked, permeated, and deserved Israeli-Jewish condemnation, but all this did not stop the Arabs from rioting and raging and trying to murder Jews and damage the state's infrastructure, from the Negev to the Galilee, from the Triangle to Jerusalem. As if all of us, all Jews, were complicit in this murder. Even then, just like today, our media managed to understand the "rage". Something in our media, and this is not new, is morally distorted from the root.
Lies and cutting corners
And because the media is uncomfortable portraying the Arabs as haters, violent, or anti-Semites, it chooses to lie, hide, round corners, to take the very simple story for reporting - and distort it as much as possible. The most common journalistic way of protecting the soft soul of the media consumer from reality, usually goes through self-censorship of the facts. Or in other words, through the decision not to call the child by his name. And so, a report of an Arab hurting a Jew, something that should be simple and easy to understand, somehow becomes a quiz. Why say Arab? This can be insulting. It is better instead to report "young", "resident of the area" or "attacker", and whoever understands, will understand. Take, for example, this report, which was heard on Sunday morning in IDF waves. Appeared in this list. "Jew" and "Arab." This is how it sounds: "At the beginning of the night, a Border Police officer was attacked with a blow to his face by a resident of the east of the city at the Flower Gate. The police officer needed medical treatment, and the suspect in the act was arrested for questioning. "At the same time, in an incident on David Street in the Old City, a man was attacked while a hat he was wearing was thrown from his head. The police arrested the suspect for questioning. "Later, at the Rockefeller junction, a firework was fired and a stone was thrown at a police vehicle, resulting in two policemen being injured in a light condition. "At the same time, during a procession of dozens of masked men in Issawiya, the rioters started firing fireworks. "In addition, in the Railway Park in Jerusalem, a man was attacked by two suspects. Police officers who arrived at the scene, arrested the suspects and they were taken for questioning. "Stones were thrown at a bus coming from the direction of Modi'in to Jerusalem near the Atarot junction. As a result, the bus driver was hit in the face and sought medical attention." What do you mean "person" was attacked? What does it mean that the "suspects" in his attack were arrested? Who is the person? Who are the suspects? After all, there is violence here. Is it not important that we know which side is the gods and which is the victim of the violence? And that, of course, is no exception. Go to the reports of News 12, and here, and of other media outlets. So are almost everyone. The most shameful example this week, at least in what I had time to watch, came in an article by Yossi Mizrahi on News 12. A stranger, if he had landed directly in this article, would not have understood, even with great effort, that there was a problem with what the Arabs did here this week. Let's start with the title. "Yossi Mizrahi left following the tension between Jews and Arabs in the capital." symmetry. Not violent Arabs. No Arabs are raging. Not Arabs attacking Jews. "Tensions between Jews and Arabs." Immediately afterwards the source of the problem is found. "This small amphitheater is the cause of the conflict this time. During Ramadan, the city's Arabs usually sit here as part of the ceremony, break the fast, and then go out to pray on the Temple Mount. But the police feared a gathering that would create a bottleneck, and banned the yeshiva." From the article it was quite clear who was responsible for the riots, Aliba d'Arc 12, and who their victim was. The police are to blame, the Arabs are its victims. Then Yossi Mizrahi found another reason for the "wave of violence that befalls the capital." On the Arab side, he says, they insisted it all started two weeks ago in Silwan, "a moment after another 16 settler families moved here." It is interesting to pause here for a moment and ask the people of Channel 12 what makes a Jew who buys a house in Jerusalem, a sovereign territory of the State of Israel, a "settler." The answer is of course clear. "A settler," according to a journalist, is a man who lives in a place we do not want him to live. Further, Mizrahi interviews an Arab, who tells him how the settlers take his house, and how they take his dreams from him, and only one figure does not appear in his article, that those Jews, to whom Mizrahi referred, purchased these houses with full money. They did not expel anyone. They did not throw anyone away. They did not take anyone's dreams. But why let the facts interfere with the narrative? By the way, it would be nice if Yossi Mizrahi would take a moment to wonder why Arabs can buy an apartment in Pisgat Ze'ev or Rehavia, and Jews can not buy an apartment anywhere they want in Jerusalem. In general, if Mizrahi was less empathetic to violence and violence, he would find that against the Jews living in the area of the Arab whom he interviewed terrorism is perpetrated on a regular basis. But, as mentioned, the facts did not have much place in this article. In any case, after concluding an interview with another representative of a left-wing organization who told him that "Israel's war is a demographic war against the Palestinians in Jerusalem," Mizrahi concluded that "the land dispute here also contributes to unrest in other parts of the city." So what did we have here? Did we hear in this article what "on the Arab side claimed", did we hear in it what "on the Jewish side claimed", and News 12? They probably have no position on which of the parties is right. They have not seen violence, they have not seen riots, and if they have seen - they can understand them.
Do not come from love
Why is it amazing to me to accept this violence as a legitimate and obvious thing? Because over the weekend, Arabs in Jerusalem attacked the Ministry of Justice building and the district court building opposite it. Security cameras were broken, the entrance floor to the office - which houses the offices of the Attorney General, the State Attorney and the Minister of Justice - was strewn with large stones. The windows of vehicles that were in the closed office parking lot, surrounded by a fence and secured, were smashed to pieces. There is no way to see it but as an attack on a governmental institution, one of the central ones. Now try to remember how broad the journalistic preoccupation was with this issue, if you have ever encountered such a preoccupation. What did you encounter? While blaming the police, while imposing responsibility on fences, while trying to explain that without the march of the Lehavah organization there would have been peace and quiet here. Avishai Grinzig revealed this week in "Globes" that against the background of this Arab violence, Ministry of Justice employees were instructed not to come to work by public transport, and not to stay in the building after seven o'clock in the evening. Do you understand? Employees of the Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel were banned from staying in their offices after 19:00 due to fear of the Arab rioters, and entire media dealt with the question of whether the commissioner was right or wrong in deciding to put some fences at the entrance to the Old City. A few days before the start of the Jerusalem round of violence, the head of the yeshiva in Jaffa and the administration were attacked by two Arabs. One of them, as revealed by Yishai Friedman in Makor Rishon, is a big fan of Hitler and Osama bin Laden, and the tune is back again. That same evening, Arabs took to the streets raging, smashing windows, firing fireworks, throwing stones and lynching a Jewish driver. And what does the media do? Looking for a proper explanation for their actions. After all, it is impossible for Arabs to harm Jews if there is no good reason for it. Hence, the road was short for a media discussion on the question of whether it was good or not good to have a Torah center in Jaffa, and exactly what land Rabbi Eliyahu Mali wanted to purchase (Jewish-owned land). As if it changes something, and as if it is a given that can perhaps explain the violence against it. I do not at all want to imagine what our media would have done to Joshua Hankin, who lived in Jaffa in his youth, and from what I understand - bought here and there some Western lands. I saw some left-wing spokesmen in the media, who tried to explain that the fact that there were no casualties on the Jewish side indicates that proportions should be maintained. After all, no one has paid here in his life, and we have been through more difficult things. It seems to me that the opposite is true. These events are serious and difficult precisely because they are popular. Precisely because behind them is not a trained terrorist cell of Islamic Jihad. Precisely because of the masses, the daring, the impudence and the antisemitic nature. Yes, antisemitic. Bands of Arabs roamed Jerusalem seeking to beat people with a Jewish-ultra-Orthodox appearance. If we were to see in Austria a video of a neo-Nazi photographing himself stepping on Jewish gravestones, like the Arab who did it this week on the Mount of Olives, we would be shocked. If we were to see videos documenting the attack on ultra-Orthodox Jews in France, we would be talking about a wave of anti-Semitism. Only when this happens to us can the media emotionally connect to the motive of the attackers, crowning such anti-Semitic incidents with cute and harmless names, like the "Tiktok Intifada." Journalist Gideon Dokov examined and found that almost every time the media uses the term "hate crime," it refers to Jewish actions against Arabs. When Arabs attack Jews, Dokov concluded, it probably comes from love. And if you're looking for another example to illustrate what is written here, go to the words of MK Ayman Odeh - the moderate Arab, as the media likes to refer to him. And the gates of liberated Jerusalem, "he wrote on his Facebook page, adding:" Congratulations from the coastal plain, the Galilee, the triangle and the Negev to the young people of Jerusalem who are revolting against the occupation. " Now, close your eyes and imagine what would happen if hundreds or thousands of price tag boys were to break, and hit, and throw Molotov cocktails, and smash windshields, and Bezalel Smotrich would greet them for that on Facebook. What a commotion God would have raised here. But for Arab Knesset members, it passes without a blink of an eye. Without a single news release feeling like it's a crossing of all the red lines. In fact, if we are not interested in Arab Knesset members embracing terrorists who murdered Jews, why should we be intimidated by their words when they praise the rioters in Jerusalem?
There is no lie and truth
This story, about violence on both sides, is a false story that the press has been cultivating for years. A story where there are no bad and good, no attackers and victims, no lies and truth. Each has its own narrative. At best we do not take a clear stand on the question of who is right. In the least good case, we connect to the wrong side. All media coverage comes from this place, and anyone who does not want to be a victim of this propaganda - certainly on "hot" days between Arabs and Jews - is better off not turning on the radio.- ↑ Hanan Amior: "The false symmetry in the coverage of the events of 5781." 18.05.21 In order to create a symmetry between Arab and Jewish violence in the coverage of the events, the media presents negative records of embezzlement in trust and unprofessionalism. This is how it does it. Presspectiva
- ↑ Ilan Zion - Lawyer Tweeted (May 23, 2021):
The exclusion of a "racist motive" in the indictments against Arabs stems from the prosecution's distorted perception that the Arabs are doing so against the background of "discrimination" or against a "nationalist" background.
There is no such thing as a nationalist background. Any Arab attack on Jews, being Jews, is on a racial background.
The Jews who attacked did so against the background of self-defense- ↑ Live: The presenter wore a kippah and wore a yellow badge Yair Kalpa, Bhol, 13 Sivan 5781 24/05/2021.
... Sharon Gal decided to convey a message - and wore Jewish symbols. During the monologue he said: "Maybe it will remove doubt, and the indictments will be worded here according to reality." Gal continued: "It is quite clear that violence is violence and racism is racism, and it is equally despicable, no matter who is behind it. We all know that there is no symmetry, and there have been countless attacks on nationalist backgrounds upon Jews by Arabs in recent weeks." [2].[3].- ↑ Symmetry in violence between Jews and Arabs? The State Advocate Prosper, Ice, May 19, 2022.
Symmetry in violence between Jews and Arabs? The State Attorney's Office, the State Attorney released a special report about indictments made in operation of Guardian of the Walls and responded directly on the question of symmetry: "There were a significant lower number, violent actions by citizens of Jewish origin."- ↑ Adv. Shosh Geva, The supreme court criticized the severity of the punishment imposed by the district and doubled the punishment of a racially motivated attacker of Jews, Takdin, Mar 6, 2022.
The Supreme Court doubled the punishment of a man who attacked Jews with a sharp object who were on their way to pray at the Western Wall. It was determined that the district court was overly lenient with the offender, and imposed a sentence that radically exceeded the appropriate punishment. The Supreme Court has repeatedly insisted on the severity of racially motivated acts of aggression and bullying, and stated that a stricter punishment policy should be adopted for crimes committed with this motive. We have before us an appeal against the sentence of the District Court in Jerusalem at criminal case no. 7279-05-21 (Judge T. Bar-Asher), according to which the respondent was sentenced to 11 months of actual imprisonment along with additional punishment, this for an incident of attacking Jews in the city Old Jerusalem. The respondent was charged with two offenses of wounding under aggravated circumstances motivated by racism or hostility towards the public under Section 334 in conjunction with Sections 335 and 144f of the Penal Code. In April 2021, during the Ramadan holiday, many incidents of assaults, acts of violence and stone throwing occurred throughout Jerusalem , on a nationalistic and racist background. These events were aimed at citizens with a Jewish appearance, members of the security forces, and vehicles with markings indicating that they are owned by Jews. The complainants were walking on Derech Schem street in Jerusalem on their way to pray at the Western Wall, wearing "Jewish-Orthodox" clothing and wearing kippahs on their heads. At that time, the respondent was driving his vehicle on this street, and noticing the complainants got out of his vehicle and walked towards them while holding a sharp object, and without any provocation on their part. The respondent shouted "Allah u Akbar" and hit them in the face with the sharp object. Immediately after what was described, the complainant pulled out a gun who carried a license and pointed it at the respondent, and at the same time the two complainants acted by force and laid the respondent on the ground for the purpose of detaining him and handing him over to the police. As part of the plea agreement, it was agreed that the respondent could claim that "stones were thrown" at his car before the incident described in the indictment. At the same time, during the hearing in the district court, the state emphasized that there is no place to give weight to the fact that prior to the incident in question stones were thrown at the respondent's vehicle, especially since there is no dispute that the complainants were not the ones who threw the stones. According to the state's method, the sentence imposed on the respondent is not appropriate for the seriousness of the offenses of which he was convicted and does not reflect the appropriate punishment for acts of violence committed with a racial motive in general, and the severity of the respondent's actions and the damage caused to the victims of the offense in particular. She also emphasized that the district court did not give an adequate expression in the sentence to the fact that the respondent admitted to committing two crimes of racially motivated injury under aggravated circumstances, towards two different victims of the crime. The state further claims that the district court erred in ruling that the racist motive is not clear, and this is contrary to the defendant's admission in the amended indictment, according to the facts of which there is no doubt that the defendant committed the acts with a racial motive. In this context, the appellant emphasizes the shout "Allahu Akbar" which the respondent shouted when he hit the complainants, which teaches about the nationalist nature of the incident.
The district court has so far used the terminology according to which the victims of the offense "attacked" the respondent while neutralizing him, as if the victims of the offense are the offenders and the offender is the victim of the offense. According to the appellant, this wrong perception of the incident led to the imposition of a lenient sentence on the respondent.- ↑ The [Arab] listener following the disturbances in the cities involved over the last few days: "The Arab leaders must take action, and stop the incendiary, agitated and hateful crowd". The listener, who grew up in the city of Acre, sharply criticized the multiple riots over the past few days in the cities involved...: "It is as if all the pimps and lunatics on earth have united. There is a loss of governance and a loss of values here". 103fm Maariv. [13/05/2021 https://103fm.maariv.co.il/programs/media.aspx?ZrqvnVq=IGFLKK&c41t4nzVQ=FGL]
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Amit Segal, "No, there is no symmetry," N12, May 13, 2021.
The .. flood of violent incidents that have taken place across the country in the past week, the vast majority of them were directed against Jews - Contrary to what is reflected here:
Arab rioters passed last night (Wednesday), this is the second evening, among all the businesses of the Jews in the city of Acre, they are set on fire one by one, and if there are Jews inside who can be killed - then it is fine. The fact that the citizens of Arab Acre will also sink into unemployment and poverty as a result did not interest them, in the face of the sublime value of war against the Jews.
An over 80-year-old Jew who was trapped in the Effendi hotel on fire is still fighting for his life at the hospital. Lynch attempts were made in Lod, Tamra and Acre and also in Jerusalem at the beginning of the week, but who even remembers. Arab rioters on the other side of the Green Side murdered a five-year-old Jewish boy who disguised himself last Purim as a ninja turtle, a foreign worker from India, a woman from Holon who was on her way home, a father and daughter from Lod. Many Jews were also injured last night in Lod by live ammunition, stones, rocks, Molotov cocktails and fires. In Haifa, 60 people were injured by smoke inhalation caused by the burning of Jewish cars. This is a partial list that in part, not even a tenth of all the events of the week.
[N12 coverage on security clearance: Jews were stabbed in Lod and Jerusalem, in Acre a hotel was set on fire. Documentation from Haifa: The moment of the arson in which 26 people were injured. Cruel lynching of a Jew in Tamra: "They wanted to set me on fire"]
... From our acquaintance with the State (of Israel) treatment of the few Jewish extremists, it will be carried out: "Kach" outlawed, the only representatives the High Court disqualified from driving to the Knesset were Jews. Where are the broadcasters all shocked by the wholesale assassination attempts against Jews?
No, there is no symmetry, despite the clumsy attempts to invent it even before the L. in Bat Yam. These are not "conflicts in the mixed cities" but an attack by Arab rioters on Jewish citizens, their property, their families and their holy places. This is not "mutual violence" but a huge wave of attacks on coexistence, against which a handful of Jews are now rising ... in a few places in the country. A quarter of an hour after the lynching in Bat Yam, my phone had already collapsed with condemnation, without "but" and without "about", of all the country's top officials, from President Rivlin to (Betzalel) Smutrich (Smotrich). Why did it take more than a day for Arab Knesset members to stop stuttering (and not all of them)? And how is it that we have not yet heard one clear, one condemnation! from the (Arab) Joint List RAA"M against the Hamas' heinous shooting that killed an Arab citizen and his daughter on Tuesday morning? If Arab criminal criminals had attacked Arab civilians in Lod, their cry would have gone to heaven, and rightly so. Of yesteryear: stuttering, fragmented, and belated.
[Documentation: Ambulance attack in Umm al-Fahm]
Anyone who tries by force, all his life, to produce symmetry, seeks to broadcast as if there is a Belfast-style civil war here, between two nations or two religions. But it is not. Since the dawn of Zionism, Jews have recognized the Arab presence, but Arabs have not recognized the Jewish presence.
Gaza could have lived in peace and prosperity if it had not decided to shatter our walls with hatred. Lod could flourish, too, and Acre flourished, until this alarming wave of hatred erupted. No Jewish lynching was ever carried out, just for no reason, on the residents of Arab Haifa, Arab Jaffa, Arab Lod or Arab Ramla. Jews have never rioted at the Western Wall against the Arabs on the Temple Mount, quite the opposite. And they further dare to say that al-Aqsa is in danger.
[A Jew stabbed in Acre, smoke in the port. Disorders in Acre]
This distorted symmetry can also cost human lives: as long as the State of Israel refuses to recognize the situation, it will delay sending troops to the cities involved, just as the imposition of the curfew in Lod has been delayed. It is also worthwhile to give some thought to the psychological need for flogging the chest under fire. But not now. There is no time, and no symmetry.- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Dr. Oz Gutterman, The thunderous stutter of the Arab MKs fuels the rioters, Globes, 13.05.2021.
The real cause of the attacks is not barriers at the entrance to the Nablus Gate nor the violence of the police, but the public atmosphere on the Arab street - Instead of taking responsibility, the automatic response of the Arab leadership in Israel is to blame the Jewish institutions.
A few weeks ago, Eli Rosen went for a walk with his dog on Shmuel Hanavi Street in Jerusalem, ostensibly for another regular walk, when a group of several dozen young Israeli Arabs recognized him and started shouting "Yahud, Yahud." The young men beat him on all sides with iron bars, kicking all over his body. Eli's only "crime" was being a Jew. Two vertebrae were broken and he suffered severe bleeding. The fact that he survived is a miracle. The real cause of this attack is not barriers at the entrance to the Nablus Gate nor police violence, but the public atmosphere on the Arab street. The first incident of the round of riots we are experiencing at this time was uploaded by a young Arab to the TikTok network. In the shocking documentation, reminiscent of dark periods in Jewish history, the attacker approached a yeshiva boy and beat him violently, to the joyous joy of his friends cheering him from behind. And what is the fault of the yeshiva guy? Just being a Jew.
Try to imagine the opposite situation - a young Jew would upload a video to Tiktok, when he approached an Arab guy, whose only sin was that he was riding a bus, and hit him hard in the face, to the sound of his friends rejoicing. What was the reasonable reaction in Jewish society to such a case? Deep shock is likely. The Israeli media was tumultuous, and rightly so. The condemnations of politicians would come from the right and the left, and with them the questions would begin to arise, what in education and discourse in our society causes weeds to act racistly.
This response of society is correct and important; This is a response that reflects an aversion to violence, and rightly so for a reformed civil society. Knowing that anyone who behaves racistly and violently towards Arabs will be condemned and condemned on all sides, prevents extremists and violent people from realizing their desires.
But the tiktok video that brutally beat a man who committed a crime for actually being a Jew was not condemned, and the Palestinian media did not bring up shocking and disgusting articles. On the contrary - he received positive and encouraging responses from all sides. What fuels the violence of the rioters who seek opportunity to harm Jews is public legitimacy. The perpetrators of the riots are not the rioters, as they are only the end product of broad public conduct in which Palestinian teachers, parents, politicians, artists and media outlets legitimize violence.
Arab Knesset members choose to remain silent
When thousands of Arab rioters search in the street for potential Jewish victims, Arab Knesset members, instead of condemning murderous racism, instead of asking what in our society's discourse legitimizes violence and racism, they simply choose to remain silent, and in some cases even back the rioters.
It is important to understand that responses such as "we are against violence on both sides" or "it is the police who create the violence" constitute overt support for the attackers and their encouragement to hunt down the next Jew. Instead of taking responsibility, the automatic response of the Arab leadership in Israel is to blame the Jewish institutions, thereby actually justifying and backing up the violence. Whoever attacks others because of their race, whoever throws bricks and irons, thereby endangering the lives of policemen, must not explain what the "justification" for his actions is; It must first be condemned and any other response is support for violence. Those responsible for harming the Jews who are being attacked and for harming the Arab rioters who are attacking are first and foremost the Arab Knesset members who to this day have filled their mouths with water, and even now they have decided to respond in most cases unwillingly, and of course all those Israeli bodies that legitimized the violent racism of those MKs.
Anyone who sees extreme and murderous violence against people whose main "crime" is actually being Jews, and does not go out of their way to combat this phenomenon, is dark and racist. This is true ... also when it comes to a gynecologist or dentist dressed in a suit and speaking in high and beautiful language.- ↑ Zvi Yehezkeli: "The Arabs have started to riot, I'm not from the UN". The commentator on Arab affairs in "News 13" says that the Arabs are the ones who started the riots in 5781 in the mixed cities. "Hamas pressed the button, they all jumped." Channel 7, 8 Sivan 5781. 19/05/21. https://www.inn.co.il/news/493146
- ↑ Ayelet Lash (@ ayeletlash9) Tweeted Oct 26, 2021:
Interesting An Arab who received a few blows a day and in less than a week has already returned home = a "wild lynch." Avi Har Even, Yigal Yehoshua and Distau Beast who were murdered by barbaric Arabs and will never return home = "violent incidents on both sides" (supposedly) A country in suicide...- ↑ An Arab driver made his way through Jewish demonstrators in Lod. He accelerated and according to the protesters almost ran over them. Idan Yosef, News 1, 20:06 11/05/21
- ↑ Kan News, May 12, 2021:
A resident who was at the scene: "He tried to run over us, such things can not happen. At the promenade, an Arab entered the car, he gave gas and started running over Jews. Then he got out of the car and tried to hit people."... (I have a little girl at home .. who will protect us?).
חלק מהנוכחים טוענים כי הנהג ניסה לדרוס אותם Rotter, 12.05.21.לינץ' בשידור חי בבת ים | תושב שהיה במקום: "הוא ניסה לדרוס אותנו, דברים כאלה לא יכולים לקרות. נכנס לטיילת רכב ערבי, הוא נתן גז והתחיל לדרוס יהודים. אחר כך הוא יצא מהמכונית וניסה להרביץ לאנשים" (יש לי ילדה קטנה בבית.. מי יגן עלינו?) @daniel_elazar
- כאן חדשות, (May 12, 2021)
- חדשותהערב
↑ Drama on a news studio broadcast Kann 11, while Shirit Cohen-Avitan, the political correspondent of "Globes", burst into tears during a broadcast of the injustice done by the media in biased coverage of the situation of Sderot residents and the Gaza Strip in the face of the lone event... Srugim, May 15, 2021 ↑ Avi Maoz: Their cry of hatred is 'Itbah al-Yehud', not 'Itbah al-Azrach' ["Kill the J..s. Not Kill the citizen"] Chairman of the Noam Avi Maoz party: The Arab enemy does not want to harm its Israeli citizens, but Jews, with one goal - the elimination of the Jewish state in the Land of Israel. Hezki Baruch - Channel 7, 8 Sivan 5781. 19/05/21. https://www.inn.co.il/news/492966 . Not a civil war - a national war for the existence of the Jewish people... Maoz... attacked the media's attempt to present the events as a "symmetry" among the many Arab terrorist incidents against Jews, ...In addition, MK Maoz emphasized that this is a war for the existence of the Jewish people in his country, and not a civil war or riots. "About a month ago, videos were published that uploaded to the Internet Arabs who attacked Jews in Jerusalem. No one thought that this was the beginning of another chapter in the long bloody war on the country," MK Maoz began. "The 5781 riots escalated into a real war. Israel: In the neighborhoods of Jerusalem, Lod, Acre, Jaffa, Haifa, Wadi Ara, and southern roads, and of course all over Judea and Samaria. "All this, when at the same time a brutal missile attack is taking place on the majority of the Israeli population, in which men, women and children are in constant anxiety due to the possibility of alarms and running to the protected area at any moment." In his remarks, MK Maoz attacked the attempt to "symmetry" in the channels of communication around the disturbances, and the desire to present the disturbances as a slight deviation from the coexistence prevailing in the country. " Residential, siege of neighborhoods and houses, stabbing in the middle of the street, throwing Molotov cocktails and firing live to assassinate Jews. Only last night we heard about the death of Yigal Yehoshua.., a resident of Lod, who was murdered by terrorists when he wanted to return home, and I send my condolences to his family. "..the 'symmetry' table is being circulated on channels and networks, summarizing the results of the disturbances so far. Unsurprisingly, everyone with their eyes in their head, the data shows that 99% of the events are directed against Jews. "Whoever insists on seeing in all these phenomena only riots that occur between different citizens, as if coexistence is alive and well and it is a slight deviation of a small and marginal handful from the Arab sector." ↑ (@ariel_elharar_) Tweeted: Balanced media https://t.co/pYAQYK3IZq h May 13, 2021 ↑ The mayor revealed Riots - 5781: Jews leave the city of Lod. .. the mayor of Lod, Yair Revivo, revealed that about 400 Jewish families had left the city, after the violent riots that took place there a few months ago. Kikar HaShabat, July 26, 2021. ↑ Who lit the match that started the fire? Hanan Amiur, Shlomi Ben-Meir, CAMERA, May 29, 2021. ...sequence of events: The wave of violence in Jerusalem – and the Jewish-Arab tensions that ensued – began almost a month before the situation in the city led to a war in Gaza. On April 15th, a Palestinian youngster from Jerusalem uploaded to his TikTok account a video showing him without provocation harshly slapping a Jewish religious teen riding in the city’s light rail.
Soon afterwards, attacks on Jewish bystanders became a trend. Many young Arabs started uploading countless – dozens if not hundreds – of videos to TikTtok in which they are seen attacking policemen, humiliating ultra-orthodox passers–by, and beating them with severe violence.
At that moment, Haaretz was still silent on the phenomenon; the newspaper started reporting on the tension in Jerusalem only on April 22nd, after the Jewish extreme-right organization Lehava held a parade in the eastern part of the city, in which racist slurs against Arabs were chanted.
Even then, 'Haaretz' hid the reason for the tension from its readers. When its Jerusalem correspondent Nir Hasson was criticized for the blatant omission, he responded on the TikTok terror: “those are ugly incidents but not exactly the worst terrorism we’ve seen… a slap, throwing a cup of coffee and a few stones are not breaking news…”
The Jerusalem tensions that were initiated by the attacks against Jews led, on April 24th, to the firing of 36 rockets and mortar shells from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel. This barrage was met with a very mild Israeli response, with the intent of preventing further escalation.
One week later, on April 30th, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced he was delaying the Palestinian elections, which should have been held on May 22nd. Hamas, which was expected to perform well in the elections, called Abbas’ announcement ‘a coup’ and added that if the elections were cancelled, Israel would be held accountable. The organization’s spokesperson stated:
Postponing the election is not justified and we oppose it. [This is] … a surrender to the will of the occupier. There is an opportunity to turn this refusal into an open popular campaign against Israel in Jerusalem. [emphasis added]
And so the popular campaign began; the legal battle in Sheikh-Jarrah was the pretext that Hamas initially used, while the Israeli government tried to prevent the ensuing escalation.
On May 7th, at the request of the Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Minister of Internal Security Amir Ohana, MK Itamar Ben-Gvir vacated the parliamentary office he had opened in Sheikh Jarrah (although he had the legal right to keep it open).
The next evening, on May 8th, the ‘Laylat al-Qadr’ prayer was held at the Temple Mount. It quickly turned into an extreme riot that included hurling stones, rocks and Molotov cocktails which were pre-prepared on the Mount and thrown at policemen, many of whom were injured.
The riot was planned in advance, among other things by transporting thousands of extremist Islamic activists from northern Israel to the Temple Mount.
The next day, May 9th, Haaretz correspondent Nir Hasson reported that stones were hurled at the Western Wall Plaza.
The same day the Israeli government took another step to calm the situation, by requesting the Supreme Court to postpone the hearing on the eviction of the Palestinian families for non-payment of rent from Jewish-owned houses in Sheikh Jarrah. It should be noted that the schedule of the legal proceedings on the matter were set long in advance, by the court.
On May 10th, the government took another drastic step towards conciliation, despite the heavy public cost involved: it announced the closure of the Temple Mount for Jews for at least a week (eventually, the closure lasted for 19 consecutive days).
The same day, Prime Minister Netanyahu made an additional decision to calm the tensions – he ordered to change the Jerusalem Day’s Flag Parade route.
Later that day, which was Jerusalem Day, the Flag Parade was diverted from its regular route.
To review, in order to deescalate the situation and maintain calm:
1.) Israel’s reacted with restraint to volleys of Hamas missiles two weeks before the blowup.
2.) The Israeli government closed the Temple Mount to Jews
3.) MK Ben-Gvir vacated his office from Sheikh Jarrah
4.) The Supreme Court hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah case was postponed
After all this, Hamas made it clear that it would use the postponement of the Palestinian elections to “open a popular campaign against Israel in Jerusalem,” and on that day of May 10th, Hamas launched a heavy barrage of rockets on Jerusalem.
Immediately after, the Arab anti-Jewish violence in Jerusalem spread throughout the country. In mixed Jewish-Arab towns such as Lod, Acre, Jaffa and others, hundreds of Arabs gathered to attack Jewish passers-by, throw rocks at driving cars, vandalizing and burning Jewish-owned businesses, houses, vehicles and synagogues. Several lynchings also occurred.
...data from Israel’s Fire and rescue services for May 16th shows a clear picture: 10 burned synagogues compared to 0 burned mosques, 28 mosques that were used to organize for violent riots compared to 0 synagogues, 112 burned Jewish houses compared to one burned Arab house (by Arabs), 673 damaged Jewish houses compared to 13 Arab houses, 849 burnt Jewish-owned cars compared to Arab-owned 13 cars. All these and more point to the fact that almost all of the violence and rioting was carried out by Israeli Arabs against Israeli Jews.↑ Tracking this week’s antisemitic rage.' Louis Keene, Forward, May 20, 2021. https://forward.com/news/470015/tracking-this-weeks-antisemitic-rage/ ↑ Young Jewish Americans rocked by new hate fueled by Israel-Palestinian conflict, Mallory Simon, CNN, 25 May 2021 ↑ "Brussels Denounces Anti-Semitic 'Attacks' In EU" By AFP - Agence France Presse. May 14, 2021. ...Germany, Austria, Spain and the United Kingdom. https://www.barrons.com/news/brussels-denounces-anti-semitic-attacks-in-eu-01620997513 ↑ Antisemitic attacks spread like ‘wildfire’ in the U.S. during Gaza conflict, PBS Newshour, May 24, 2021. ... The span of these attacks, they spread like wildfire across the country. You mentioned a few, California, Arizona, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, South Carolina, Florida, acts of harassment and vandalism and violence.So, number one, the span is much greater than what we have seen, but secondly the tone, the brazenness, the audacity of these assaults in broad daylight. We have seen people basically say, if you are wearing a Jewish star, you must be a Zionist and you should be killed.
We have seen people hurling bottles and objects at homes with mezuzot on the door that were identifiably Jewish. We have seen people driving cars or marauding through Jewish neighborhoods and yelling, "We're going to rape your women," right, or yelling things like "Allahu akbar," and literally then wreaking physical violence on people.
And one of the incidents that was captured was in broad daylight in Times Square, a group of people beating and bloodying a Jewish man whose only crime was he was wearing a kippah, to the point where he was left unconscious in the street while people kicked him, bloodied him with like crutches.
... Well, let's be clear. None of the people committing these crimes wearing MAGA hats, right?
The reality is.. I do believe that political language can have real world consequences. But this is very different kind of political language... in this case, we have people waving Palestinian flags and then beating Jewish people. And, in this case, you know what I might really draw a parallel to is the hate crimes committed against Asian Americans, where unhinged, fictionalized conspiracies about China first spouted by political leaders led to real-world consequences, as Asian Americans were attacked on the streets.
Well, today, we have unhinged, fictionalized conspiracies about Israel, that somehow the Jewish state is systematically slaughtering children or committing genocide. And then that leads to real-world attacks on Jewish people in the streets of America, on our campuses, in our communities.
So, although, again, the political tenor may be different, the real outcome is the same. And that's why we think people, regardless of where you are on the spectrum, need to speak out clearly and firmly and forcefully and say, in an unambiguous way, that anti-Semitism is unacceptable, because, again, this isn't activism. It's hate, and it should be called out as such.↑ Watch: Pro-Palestine mob attacks Jewish man in Canada while chanting Allahu Akbar. OpIndia Staff | 16 May 2021. http://www.opindia.com/2021/05/watch-pro-palestine-mob-attack-jewish-man-in-canada-while-chanting-allahu-akbar/ ↑ Israeli Flag Burnings in Germany, Thousands Protest in Italy and Chant ‘Allahu Akbar’. In Italy, some 3,000 pro-Palestinian protesters gathered at the Piazza Duomo outside Milan’s iconic cathedral, waved Palestinian flags, burned Israeli flags, and yelled “Allahu Akbar”.Silvia Sardone, a member of Matteo Salvini’s League and Member of the European Parliament, said of Thursday’s protest: “Yesterday’s anti-Israel demonstration, with thousands of people present, was punctuated by unacceptable moments.” “On more than one occasion, there were shouts and chants of ‘Allahu Akbar’, and the Israeli flag was burned in the crowd,” Ms Sardone said.
She also criticised the inaction from Milan’s leftist Mayor Beppe Sala, claiming he was "non-existent" because he was "probably afraid of offending some of his supporters."↑ Israeli Flags Burned and Synagogues Attacked in Germany. May 13, 2021. German police have arrested several people of “Arabic appearance” following attacks on synagogues in North Rhine-Westphalia, including incidents where suspects burned Israeli flags in front of temples. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/05/13/israeli-flags-burned-synagogue-attacked-germany/ ↑ Yael Halon: "US seeing wave of 'textbook anti-Semitism' amid Israel-Gaza tensions." Israel-Gaza conflict has generated disturbing backlash against American Jews." Fox News. May 21, 2021. https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-seeing-wave-of-textbook-anti-semitism-amid-israel-gaza-tensions. "Stop telling me this is about Israel and Gaza," said a New Yorker who was confronted by a pro-Palestinian mob on his way to synagogue this week. "My people are being targeted across the United States in broad daylight. This is textbook anti-Semitism, and we will continue to live in danger until the public starts to recognize it for what it is." His remarks were a common refrain rippling across U.S. Jewish communities in recent days. Here's a look at some recent incidents throughout the country. ↑ Antisemites attacking Jews reported as "clashes between groups", EoZ, May 23, 2021 ↑ Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) Tweeted: Some progressive lawmakers, including AOC, use the term "apartheid"... Bernie Sanders' former Jewish outreach director says the charged language can fuel anti-Semitic incidents. "I think we should tone down the rhetoric," Sanders says. https://t.co/lIsXnHhVTB May 23, 2021 ↑ 52.0 52.1 'Jewish man beaten during wild NYC protests afraid to wear yarmulke.' By Reuven Fenton and Amanda Woods. May 21, 2021. https://nypost.com/2021/05/21/jewish-man-beaten-during-wild-midtown-protests-afraid-to-wear-yarmulke/ Waseem Awawdeh has been hit with multiple charges, including a hate crime. In the attack, captured on video, Borgen was knocked to the ground by a group of five or six men who allegedly made anti-Semitic statements, punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and struck him with crutches... "I tried to get away, and the next thing I knew, I was surrounded by a whole crowd of people who proceeded to kick me, punch me, beat me down," he recalled. "I felt a liquid being poured on my face and at first I thought I was getting urinated on, but it tuned out I was getting maced and pepper sprayed. My face was on fire. That pain was worse than the concussion and all this other stuff that followed." ↑ 53.0 53.1 New York Police Charge Pro-Palestinian Protester With Hate Crime.' Waseem Awawdeh is accused of beating a Jewish man during protest near Times Square.' By Ben Chapman. Updated May 21, 2021. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-police-investigate-beating-of-jewish-man-during-pro-palestinian-march-11621610628 "Yesterday was an attack on this man simply because he is Jewish," Ms. Halberstam said. Jewish people were targeted in 63 hate crimes between Jan. 1 and May 16, up from 60 during the same time in 2020, according to the NYPD figures. Hate crimes against Jews accounted for the second-largest number of such crimes this year, after those targeting Asians.. ↑ 2 Staten Islanders indicted, new details revealed in alleged hate crime against Jewish man at protest, Staten Island Advance, SIlive, Jun 10, 2021. “I observed surveillance video of the above described event and observed the above individual [victim] get knocked to the ground by two men,” an officer who investigated the crime is quoted as saying in the criminal complaint for Awawdeh. “I then observed a group of approximately six men punch and kick the above individual while he was on the ground.”
The criminal complaints against both Elezzi and Awawdeh allege the victim told authorities that “while he was on the ground, he heard the men saying, in substance, ’Dirty Jew. Filthy Jew. F--k Israel. Hamas is going to kill you. Go back to Israel.’”↑ 55.0 55.1 Logan Ratick (@Logan_Ratick) Tweeted: Because he grew up brainwashed to hate a specific group of people May 22, 2021 ↑ 56.0 56.1 NYPD arrests suspect in beating of Jewish man in Times Square. May 24, 2021. Faisal Elezzi was arrested and charged in connection to the violent beatdown of a Jewish man near Times Square. The suspects spewed anti-Semitic statements while pepper spraying, punching and kicking Borgen, police have said. Police said the group also used crutches to beat the victim. ↑ Joe Marino and Amanda Woods, Another suspect nabbed in brutal 2021 NYC anti-Semitic attack, NYPost, February 10, 2023. Mohammed Said Othman, 28, was arrested Thursday morning and later arraigned on an indictment in connection to the May 20, 2021 attack on Joseph Borgen – who was knocked to the ground, punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed, struck with crutches and assailed with anti-Semitic statements on Broadway near West 49th Street.↑ Suleiman_Othman, Canary. ↑ Three Brooklyn Men Indicted for Assault and Menacing as Hate Crimes For Attacking Jewish People Outside Synagogues Brooklyn DA, July 20, 2021. Allegedly Threatened, Punched and Chased Victims in Two Separate Incidents.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that three Brooklyn men have been charged in a 68-count indictment in connection with two incidents in which they allegedly targeted Jewish individuals. The defendants allegedly stated, “Kill all the Jews,” demanded that a Jewish man say, “Free Palestine,” punched him when he refused, and then chased him and a friend while holding a cricket bat.
District Attorney Gonzalez said, “All members of Brooklyn’s diverse communities should feel free to go about their day and observe their religion without fear of being targeted. Attacks such as those described in this indictment – including violence and threats of violence that stem from bias and bigotry – are abhorrent and will be prosecuted.”
The District Attorney identified the defendants as Daniel Shaukat, 20, of Bensonhurst, Haider Anjam, 21, of Midwood, and Ashan Azad 19, of Midwood. They were variously charged in a 68-count indictment with third-degree assault as a hate crime, second-degree menacing as a hate crime, third-degree assault, criminal mischief, criminal obstruction of breathing and related charges. Anjam was arraigned last week, Shaukat was arraigned today and Azad will be arraigned on a later date. They were released on bonds ranging from $4000 to $5000 and ordered to return to court on September 9, 2021. The defendants face a maximum sentence of 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison if convicted of the top count...↑ Brooklyn Trio Faces Hate Crime Charges Following Harassment Outside Synagogue, Gus Rosendale and Ida Siegal, NBC NY, May 26, 2021 ↑ ARRESTED: 3 men accused of Brooklyn synagogue harassment in custody 1010Wins, May 26, 2021. ↑ [https://nypost.com/2023/10/01/hate-trio-faces-jail-time-after-pleading-guilty-in-viral-nyc-diamond-district-beating/ Hate trio faces jail time after pleading guilty in viral NYC Diamond District beating: ‘Great news’ By Doree Lewak and Priscilla DeGregory Published Oct. 1, 2023. Three antisemitic attackers who were caught on viral video beating a Jewish man in Midtown have pleaded guilty and now likely face at least several years behind bars — which the victim called “great news.”
Mahmoud Musa and Mohammed Othman copped to the charge of second-degree assault as a hate crime Wednesday for their roles in the vicious, infamous, May 20, 2021, assault of Joseph Borgen in the Diamond District... On Friday, a third attacker, Mohammed Said Othman, pleaded guilty to attempted gang assault in the violent clash, which was between Israel and Palestine supporters... This past summer, Borgen became upset when another defendant in the case, Waseem Awawdeh, 24, got off on a light plea deal in which he received just 18 months behind bars. The victim was particularly outraged because Awawdeh said from his jail cell that he’d “do it again.” “Why is he getting a break? I really can’t fathom why he’s getting a deal,” Borgen said at the time. “Me, personally, I wanted to go to trial, I wanted to see full justice.”
Nicholas Ramcharitar, a lawyer for Mohammed Othman said of his case, “It became clear to Mr. Othman that accepting responsibility for his nonsubstantial role in the events that took place during the riots was something he felt he needed to do.”↑ Awawdeh receives longer sentence of 18 months for antisemitic attack, JNS, Apr 28, 2023 ↑ Pro-Palestine protesters in London wave hate-filled signs ... By James Gant and Jacob Thorburn For Mailonline, 23 May 2021. Responding to the signs, Lord Mann, the government's anti-Semitism tsar, told the Sunday Times: 'The disgusting racist abuse against Jewish people on the streets of London requires an effective and strong response by all politicians and will be treated with contempt by all decent citizens.' Meanwhile, the Campaign Against Antisemitism spoke of 'yet another antisemitism-infested rally' and said Jews had been threatened with 'rape and murder' in recent weeks...
Some protesters used nearby Whitehall Gardens as an area to pray, as the crowd continued to chant and let off green flares.↑ HATE IN CHICAGO: Arabs Yelling “Kill The Jews” Attack Pro-Israel Rally. May 24, 2021. An Arab mob calling for the murder of Jews attacked the participants of a pro-Israel rally held in a Chicago suburb with such vehemence that the police cut the pro-Israel rally short, saying they couldn’t guarantee the safety of the participants... The rally was held on Sunday in Naperville, a suburb of Chicago, with participants gathering outside city hall and then marching through downtown Naperville. ↑ Bus passenger threatened: 'I will slit your throat for Palestine' Noa Hoffman, The JC, July 4, 2021. 'Visibly Jewish' man subjected to tirade on London bus – less than an hour after being abused on the tube. British Transport Police are investigating after a visibly Jewish man was told “I will slit your throat for Palestine” on a London bus on Saturday night. ↑ Eric Greenstein, "Bennett is right, the Arabs [sector] are more criminal", Mida, 08/02/2015. ... Leading in the percentage of serious crime. The data is extremely serious. In July 2014, the report of the Knesset Research and Information Center dealt with the treatment of serious violence among the Arab sector - which was prepared, by the way, at the request of MK Hanin Zoabi. The report revealed that as of June of last year, 49% of criminal prisoners in Israel belong to the Arab sector. Considering that this is a sector that accounts for about one-fifth of the total population in Israel, this is a particularly high number.
From the report of the Knesset Information and Research Center
The said report is not about vehicle thefts, but about particularly serious offenses. For example, in segmenting the number of cases open by crime, between the years 2006-2006 it became clear that the Arabs (along with other foreigners) are responsible for 55 percent of those suspected of murder, and 49 percent of those accused of murder; 55 percent of those suspected of attempted murder, and 58 percent of those charged with it; And 58 percent of those suspected of serious bodily harm and 45 percent of those guilty of it. In a robbery in serious circumstances, the number was 1,625 non-Jews compared to 1,535 Jews. As can be seen in the charts below, even after deducting other foreign groups that are sometimes included in the statistics, due to the size of the Arab sector in the population, these numbers are extremely high...
It is estimated that in the northern villages and other places there are many thousands of weapons and ammunition that are not in their possession. Or in the words of [Arab] MK Ahmad Tibi, "The quantities of weapons in Arab localities do not embarrass armed militias."
In his speech, Minister Bennett added that "this first of all hurts the Arabs." Indeed, the Ministry of Homeland Security's 2014 report 'National Violence Index' segmented the transfers in the Jewish and non-Jewish sectors and concluded that "in most cases the perpetrator and victim are from the same sector." On this issue Bennett gets full backing from [Ahmed] Tibi. Thus, at a meeting of a parliamentary inquiry committee held in February 2012, he said that “internal violence and its spread [in Arab society in Israel] deprives many of sleep. "Sometimes not a day goes by without murder or violence." In 2014, he added that Tibi “The disproportionate rates of crime and murder in Arab-Palestinian society in Israel should not be ignored. "The phenomenon of crime is felt more and more severely than any other part of Palestinian society." And until there is finally an issue in which such cross-border and sectoral agreement has been found, who are we to argue?↑ Crime in the Arab sector: How many were arrested in 2020? Itzik Saban, Israel Hayom, Jan 12, 2021. ...The police fight against gunfire and weapons in the Arab sector: Data on police activity in the past year indicate a significant increase in the extent of enforcement of weapons offenses in Arab society in Israel. In 2020, which was in the shadow of the fight against the Corona virus, the police increased their activities against weapons offenses and arrested a total of 5,713 suspects in shooting and weapons offenses throughout the country - an increase of about 22% in the number of detainees compared to 2019... ↑ 45 murdered since the beginning of the year: In Arab society they are crying out for help, but how can the problem of violence be solved? For a decade now, Arab society has been dealing with a serious problem of violence. • In the past week, the butcher has almost been killed once a day. And the social mentality - everything on the table.Purat Nassar, [https://www.mako.co.il/news-law/2020_q2/Article-9d692fe75ccd271026.htm N12, June 23, 2020.↑ It is possible to eradicate crime in Arab society: we need to focus on the pockets of criminal organizations, Yuval Diskin, Globes, Dec 29, 2020.
[A mosque in Kafr Qassem. The "Wild West" is resurrected in the Arab sector / Photo: Associated Press, Oded Balilty]
The severe violence in the Arab sector, the expansive spread of organized crime in recent years, the enormous amounts of illegal weapons, and the transformation of entire areas of the country into governmental territories, have long become a serious social threat and no less a serious security threat to the State of Israel.↑ We need to talk about this: Most of those murdered by their spouses are Arabs, Ariel Schnabel, MakorRishon, Oct 21, 2020. 13 out of 19 women murdered this year are Arabs. But the media almost ignores their origins, perhaps for fear of political correctness. Voting for a proven problem is not racism, not stigmatizing the whole public and certainly not something that can be ignored - one must talk about the phenomenon, in order to save the next woman. ↑ The number of crimes in Arab society is on the rise, Hezki Baruch - Channel 7, 7 Nissan 5780, April 1, 2020. The report of the Research and Information Center in the Knesset reveals that while in 2019 there was a decrease in crime among the Jewish public, among Israeli Arabs the crime rate continues to rise. ↑ Tzvi Joffre, "90% of arrested weapons crime suspects from Arab-Israeli sector." JPost, Jan 12, 2021. ↑ The residents of Be'er Sheva no longer trust the police. Hamal, Sep 25, 2021. Apart from the many crime incidents in the Arab sector that characterize the Negev region, there is an equally serious phenomenon in the city, harassment incidents, from which the girls of the city suffer.The fear of leaving the house in the evening and the risk of wearing shorts or tights have become commonplace among city residents. The glorious vehicles of the minorities (Arabs) roam the city and at night trying to seduce young girls, and when they see a young girl, they start honking at her, shouting and even getting out of their car and trying to touch her with force.
A resident of Be'er Sheva, Michael, told the staff: "We realized that we can no longer trust the municipality or the enforcement forces. Started a number of WhatsApp groups called "Walking Fearlessly in Be'er Sheva". The groups include about 10,000 participants and their goal is to give protection and a sense of security to the city's residents in real time.
"When a girl feels that someone is following her or trying to harass her," says Michael, "she sends her location to the group and usually within a short time one of the volunteers arrives to help her.
Michael clarified that "the aim of the project is to provide security for the residents of the city and not to prosecute the criminals. So far all the incidents in the group have ended without violence, but it is never possible to be safe. At the moment this is the only solution we have."
"We can not trust the municipal inspectorate, which constantly eats and drinks at convenient stations and burns the fuel for free, it's just a waste of taxpayers' budget for all of us. The mayor, Rubik Danilovich, does not address the problem either." We demand that the city be closed at night for outsiders to enter."↑ Violence in Israel’s Arab sector claims 111 lives since early 2020, Daniel Siryoti, JNS, Dec 20, 2020 ↑ Chef shot dead, boy stabbed two weeks after graduation: nine killed in 18 days. This month alone, 9 people were murdered in Arab society. Residents do not see an end to the cycle of bloodshed, blame the police - and demand that the contempt, as they say, be stopped by the authorities: "Innocents are murdered and do not know who is next in line. It could reach any of us." Deputy Minister of Internal Security at Ynet Studio: "There will be no change in one day" Hassan Shaalan, Ynet, July 18, 2021. ↑ Ahmad stabbed, was run and murdered with graduating. His father: "Arab society - Part of the problem" Hassan Shaalan, Ynet, July 4, 2021 ↑ Yossi Ahimair, "The cry of Arab society is justified, but it is impossible for them to throw everything at the police Maariv, Mar 15, 2021. As long as the Arab demonstrators continue to wave PLO flags in their demonstrations, please do not come to their country with complaints. The police must take care of this as well - the flag of hatred of Israel will not be raised within Israel. ... The accusers of the continuing crime in the Arab localities are directed by their spokespersons, as stated, at the state authorities. However, if the prime minister is to blame - whose government has allocated NIS 15 billion to the Arab sector and opened nine police stations in Arab localities - it can be said that the head of the (Arab) joint list is to blame several times over. It seems that Ayman Odeh and the other Arab public leaders, Knesset members and mayors are more troubled by the distress of the polls ahead of the election than the distress of crime.
Concerns about the state of the (Arab) joint list in the election emerge from their throats as they become more and more extreme. And it is impossible not to wonder: what about the responsibility of Arab society itself? When will the leadership of the Arab sector also begin to properly deal with internal affairs, the wild evening, the rampant violence, the culture of revenge, the free shootings, today in this locality, tomorrow in another locality? What about proper cooperation with the law and order guards, the uniformed blues, many of whom are Arabs, Bedouins, Druze?
I write this out of sympathy for Arab society, but not for its inciting leadership. The cry that arises in the call to put an end to crime in villages, cities in the Triangle, the Galilee and the Negev is certainly understandable. The Jewish neighbors also suffer from it. But it is impossible for them to throw all their love at the police, at the burden of their duties. On the one hand, they want - and rightly so - more policing, more police presence in the localities, on the other hand they shout bitterly against the police, come out strongly against it. The demonstrations and calls directed at the police, begging to enter and act, have changed direction, and the demonstrations and propaganda are against the police and law enforcement agencies. Probably also because of the upcoming elections.
The leaders of the Arab public must begin to act seriously, and not just shout at the government in demonstrations that get out of hand, while uttering derogatory slogans about "racist abandonment," as the outraged MK Yosef Jabarin wrote. It may be appropriate for them to heat up the election campaign in the sector, in the face of worrying polls, but to solve the aggravating crime problem such statements are not helpful.
Does not the famous rule of old Hillel (Jewish sage...) “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” does not speak to Arab society in Israel? Is it not better to cooperate with the police instead of going against it? As the demonstrations escalate in severity, in their messages, in their goals, sympathy for them fades. Moreover, as long as the Arab demonstrators - and they do not represent the majority in Arab society, which increasingly integrates well into all life systems in Israel - continue to wave the PLO flags in their demonstrations, please do not come to their country against which they defy. The police must take care of this as well - the flag of hatred of Israel will not be raised within Israel.↑ With the enemy flags: the PLO, Hamas and Al Qaeda - In Umm el Fahm they call for the police to leave. Gplanet, October 22, 2021. ... The demonstration is on the "murders virus," as if an external virus operates it and not themselves.
There is no grandfather that the police will not really leave .. They all know are who the murderers, but do not cooperate with the police, and then blame the "virus".↑ Itamar Ben Gvir @itamarbengvir Tweeted Sep 25, 2021: Seeing Ayman Odeh come to demonstrate about the violence in Arab crime is ridiculous, he voted against the entry of police stations into villages, against the entry of the GSS to eradicate weapons in Arab society. Now he is complaining about helplessness ...↑ Comments on police and policing in the days of Corona. Blue uniforms, green uniforms, Itamar Levin, News1, March 29, 2020. Today, the police pay the price for a hand that is too hard on the one hand and a hand that is too soft on the other - in the ultra-Orthodox sector and in the Arab sector... The ultra-Orthodox do not listen to the police because they have become accustomed to the fact that it sometimes acts against them with disproportionate and illegal violence; The Arabs do not listen to her because they have become accustomed to the fact that she is unable to deal with day-to-day offenses in their communities.↑ Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted (Oct 4, 2021): Just a disgrace! Want to fight violence and crime, and give such violent attackers discounts ?! Then we wonder why people are afraid to complain about our criminals...
And in such a case that it was racist violence a punishment with significant deterrence would have been required. This service jobs give them a reward! pure shame.↑ "'Khybar, Khybar Ya Yehud'": Wild incitement in Umm al-Fahm. Hundreds of protesters clashed with police last Friday. Participants threw stones at the forces and shouted: 'Muhammad's army will return'. View documentation." Daniel Siryoti. Israel Hayom, January 18, 2021. https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/841547 ↑ 'North: Arabs rioted and shouted "Khaybar, Khaybar Ya Yahud". Under the headline "Protest against the murders and violence within Arab society," hundreds of Arabs rioted in Umm al-Fahm and attacked police. The rioters shouted against Jews. Police arrested only 4 rioters' Hakol Hayehudi, January 17, 2021. Hundreds of Umm al-Fahm Arabs rioted Friday afternoon on Route 65, in protest of "violence in the Arab sector" and the wave of killings within Arab society. The rioters set fire to tires on the road leading to the police station and threw stones at police officers and at vehicles. The rioters chanted various slogans against Jews and against Israel. Among other things, they shouted "Khaybar, Khaybar, Ya Yahud, Jaish Muhammad Sa Ya'ud," which means a prayer that the cause of the Jews will be like the fate of their brothers when Muhammad massacred the Jews of Khybar. ↑ Nisan Ahmado, Experts: Iran Eyes Reuniting Its 'Axis of Resistance', VOA, January 27, 2021. Hamas’ reluctance.Despite ongoing efforts by Iran and Hezbollah to restore relations with the Syrian government, some experts contend Hamas could lose significant support locally if it were to opt for a full restoration of relations with Damascus.
This, analysts say, is because thousands of Palestinian refugees remain in the custody of the Syrian government and areas where Hamas is concentrated intensely felt the impact of government attacks in the early years of the war.
↑ "Abbas delays Palestinian elections; Hamas slams 'coup'" Joseph Krauss, AP, April 29, 2021. ↑ The real source of the violence in Jerusalem Maurice Hirsch, Adv. and Itamar Marcus, PMW, Apr 27, 2021 ↑ Mahmoud Abbas’s default ploy: Antisemitic incitement All along, and as recently as this week, PA officialdom under his rule has been consistent in its support for the cold-blooded murder of innocent Israelis. Ruthie Blum, JPost, May 6, 2021 ↑ Rebuild What With Whom? Shoshanna Bryen, Newsweek, May 25, 2021. ↑ Incitement to violence against Jews: The permanent method of resolving Palestinian leadership crises, Tal Brown, Mida, April 25, 2021. ↑ Mike Fegelman: How Hamas and the PA started the 'TikTok intifada', The National Post, May 31, 2021. ↑ The Arabs began attacking yeshiva students and uploading to tiktok Actualic, April 16 '21 ↑ 93.0 93.1 Yori Yalon and Shahar Klaiman, "Israel arrests 17 more rioters as Arab-Jewish clashes in Jerusalem continue", JNS, Apr 25, 2021. ...began on April 13, the start of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, and have been escalating over the past week.
According to Jerusalem District Police Chief Doron Turgeman, the suspects arrested on Saturday night—for “assaulting police officers, throwing rocks, setting off fireworks and hurling firebombs”—join 140 others taken into custody since the beginning of the “unrest,” bringing the total number to 157. Most of those arrested so far have been Muslims, Turgeman told Kan Radio on Sunday morning.
Turgeman also said that 54 of the detainees are being held under suspicion of attacks with a “racist motive.”
According to police, the unrest was sparked in part by a new social-media trend among young Arabs, which involves physically assaulting visibly Orthodox Jews and posting the attacks on TikTok. The first such video shows an Arab teen slapping a yeshiva student on Jerusalem’s light rail. Since last week, similar incidents have been posted to the popular platform.
In one such incident, Eli Rozen, 27, of Jerusalem, was walking his dog when he was set upon by a mob of Palestinians, who beat him severely while filming the attack. Rozen, who believes he narrowly escaped death, described recent events in the city as a “third intifada.”↑ 'Arabs attack Jews in East Jerusalem.' News 1, April 18, 2021. https://www.news1.co.il/Archive/001-D-439180-00.html ↑ Ramadan Danger: Old habits die slowly N. Shragai, Israel Hayom, April 19, 2021 ↑ 96.0 96.1 Itzik Saban, Minister Ohana: "Attacking Jews in Jerusalem - an act on racist ground, the justice system must be deterred", ILH, Apr 23, 2021. The Minister of Internal Security referred to the events of recent days in Jerusalem, and called on the judicial system to severely punish young Arabs who attacked Jews with an ultra-Orthodox appearance in the capital in recent weeks - "This is not a prank"
- Minister Ohana on the "tiktok terror" background to nationalist-racist acts and not pranks. 0404, Apr 23, 2021
The Minister of Internal Security, Amir Ohana, addressed today (Friday) the growing Arab violence in recent days and what has been called "Tiktok terror."↑ 97.0 97.1 "The attacks documented in Tiktok are part of the new anti-Semitism", Globes, April 19, 2021 ↑ Attack on the rabbi in Jaffa: "The suspects acted on racist motives". The court extended the detention of the two attackers, Ahmad and Mahmoud Gerboa. Yaron Doron, Israel Hayom, April 19, 2021.
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/871757↑ New Trend in Jerusalem: Arabs Attack Jews, and Then Post It On TikTok. By Hana Levi Julian. 6 Iyyar 5781. April 17, 2021.
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/local/new-trend-in-jerusalem-attack-and-run-violence-by-arab-males-against-orthodox-jews/2021/04/17/↑ https://www.janglo.net/item/xnM57oHbtyj ↑ https://www.jdn.co.il/video/1514736/ ↑ Dror Ithkovich: Apr 20, 2021. In the State of Israel, a terrorist campaign is being conducted by young Arabs against Jews in various locations in Israel. In Jerusalem, Jaffa, Lod, Ramla and more. These are dozens of particulars and perhaps even more Arab rioters attack principally Jews, young Jews mainly of Jewish / religious / Haredi / ultra-Orthodox appearance, while degrading the Jews being attacked and uploading the clips of violence and degradation on social media. Most of the instances are not publicized and not known, especially when the attacked are not complaining and absorb the anti-Semitic disorders as if it is a thing of a routine. On the few times the rioters were caught, it was the police who located the attacked and demanded that they file a complaint,
The current police minister is a total failure in the subject and a total failure in the treatment of Arab violence in the Negev and north. We reached here at the situation in which the Jews were in the towns in the eastern Europe, such as Bialystok in Poland where they were forced to establish a self-defense organization because the protective of power could not be trusted. (Enraging documentation tonight in Jerusalem, a number of Arab youths were documented attacking a young ultra-Orthodox man who was riding a bicycle. Police forces who were at the scene and captured the incident arrived to keep the rioters away...]).↑ Yaniv Halperin, ""Tiktok terror"? Not just those who carry it out are responsible", PC.co.il Apr 19, 2021. Internet companies and authorities are also responsible: the distribution of videos showing Palestinians beating and humiliating ultra-Orthodox would be reduced if the companies put all their emphasis on the war on hate speech, and the authorities were really enforcing and punishing - meanwhile it is "mild" violence, but it could quickly lead to murder.
In most media outlets, these videos are referred to as having a "nationalist background" - which is true, but does not show the full picture: these are not videos showing events committed against the background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but antisemitic videos. I do not know about you, but I can not interpret a video in which a Palestinian is seen kicking an ultra-Orthodox man sitting with his friend Tomo on the light rail in Jerusalem, or a video in which another Palestinian is seen sticking a five-shekel coin to the floor. , Of course, fails. And let us remind you - the ultra-Orthodox are the classic stereotype of the Jew, dating back to traditional anti-Semitism in medieval Europe.
One advertises - the others imitate ...↑ Y. Weiss, "Indictment Filed Against Arab Who Slapped Jew on Light Rail Train", Modia, May 4, 2021. A screen shot of the Arab slapping the boy on the train, April 14.
The Yerushalayim District Prosecutor’s Office has submitted to the city’s Magistrates Court for Youth an indictment against a 17-year-old Arab, who attacked chareidi teenagers on the Light Rain Train in Yerushalayim last month.
The indictment charged the Arab with an attack due to racist motives, and harm to privacy.
According to the indictment, on April 14, the suspect boarded the train at the Safra Square station, together with six other minors.
A few minutes later, at the Shimon Hatzadik station, two chareidim boarded the train and sat down on one of the benches in the train car that the group was sitting in.
The suspect noticed the chareidim and decided to attack them. When the train arrived at the Shu’afat station, the suspect approached the chareidim, waved his hand, and forcefully slapped their faces, as the entire event was being filmed by his friend.
As a result of the suspect’s actions, one of the chareidi boys suffered strong pains in his cheek, and his glasses were broken. The second chareidi felt pain and his glasses flew off his face due to the force behind the slap. According to the indictment, the suspect then sent the video clip of the attack to several other people.
Later, the video clip reached another person, who spread it to many others on social media, captioned in Arabic with the words, “You’ll continue erasing, and I’ll continue uploading, it’s either the Palestinian nation or you.”
At the same time, the Prosecutor’s Office also submitted a request to extend the suspect’s release under restrictive conditions.↑ Elisha Ben Kimon, Haim Goldich Tiktok attacks: The GSS and the police arrested suspects who beat Jews in Jerusalem Ynet, May 14, 2021. Four suspects were questioned following two assaults. In one case, a man was beaten in East Jerusalem and his car was set on fire. In another case, a Jew was beaten by Sheikh Jarrah. Three have already been indicted. One of the assailants: "It is better than nothing, but shows helplessness" The GSS stressed: "Violence - terrorism for all intents and purposes".
Their GSS investigation revealed the involvement of the suspects in the acts and further arrests are expected. Three of them have already been indicted, for a terrorist act of aggravated injury, arson and intentional sabotage - racially motivated.
In the indictment filed by the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office, the attack was described as "an attempt to lynch a Jewish citizen." It was further emphasized that he was part of the "wave of riots and violent attacks against police and civilians, which has plagued Jerusalem since the month of Ramadan and is currently a 'national plague' ...↑ Tik Tok terrorism: An Arab from Jerusalem is accused of attacking an ultra-Orthodox Jew for racist motives, 0404, May 3, 2021. An indictment was filed today (Monday) in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court against Ramzi Radaida (Radaideh), an 18-year-old Arab resident of the city, for assault that causes actual damage out of motive of racism or hostility towards the public and assault simply out of motive of racism.
According to the indictment, about two weeks ago in the evening, the Arab walked with his friends on the bridge leading from IDF Square to the Jaffa Gate.
The Arab approached one of them and unexpectedly kicked us in the waist. The force of the kick was repelled on a low fence and fell on the other side of it. Immediately afterwards, the defendant continued to walk along the bridge, approached M. and slapped him hard on the cheek, resulting in M.'s dome being thrown over the bridge. While M. moves away from the defendant and bends down to lift the dome, an object is thrown at him by another person and M. begins to flee the scene.
According to the indictment, part of the assault incident was filmed by the defendant's friend, apparently so that the Jews could multiply in the assault and mock them.
The prosecution asked the court to order the arrest of the defendant until the end of the proceedings against him.↑ Zvi Yehezkeli attacks Israeli Arabs: "An illusion of coexistence, it exploded inside us". News 13 commentator on Arab affairs in an attack on Israeli Arabs following the riots across the country and in the cities involved: "What happened to these young Arabs who live a life of abundance in one of the most comfortable countries in the Middle East?" ICE editorial | 12/5/2021. What happened to these young Arabs who live a life of abundance in one of the most comfortable countries in the Middle East. We are reaping the incitement that the Arab Knesset members have made here for years. As you may recall, a few weeks ago, the Arab citizens of Israel began fermenting during the month of Ramadan. A few weeks ago, what was known in the media as tiktok terror began after documentation of an Israeli Arab slapping an ultra-Orthodox boy, in those days riots began in Jaffa and Jerusalem... https://www.ice.co.il/media/news/article/819769 ↑ MORE TIKTOK TERROR: 3 Arabs Arrested For Throwing Hot Coffee In Jew’s Face, Ywn, Apr 19, 2021 ↑ Avri Gilad, "The TikTok videos of the attack on Jews are an antisemitic act. Enforcement officials are buying quiet now for riots afterwards." Israel Hayom, April 22, 2021. These videos of attacking Jews, especially ultra-Orthodox [Haredim], are an antisemitic act of Nazi arrival. This is not a prank. https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/872705 ↑ Tik-tok terrorism continues: Following the distribution of shaming videos posted by Arab residents of East Jerusalem against the ultra-Orthodox on the tik-tok network, a channel affiliated with Islamic Jihad recently distributed a video to social media with documents in which Arabs humiliate Jews under the headline: "Palestinian palm and stone during Ramadan." Hamal, April 17, 2021 ↑ Alexandra Lukesh, Nir (Choco) Cohen, 'A 15-year-old boy was beaten in Jerusalem: "The assailant told me, look how we attacked you yesterday"'. Ynet, May 21, 2021. https://www.ynet.co.il/judaism/article/BkaF1C6LO. Police claim dozens of arrests following a wave of attacks on ultra-Orthodox and religious Jews in the middle of Ramadan. But Yedidya Epstein tells Ynet that after being beaten near the police in Jerusalem, his attacker is still at large. "He ran away from them, then he came to me." Police: "Work to locate the suspects in the attacks". Dozens of Arabs arrested on suspicion of assaulting Jews and uploading to Tiktok: Interview with Yedidya 15-year-old friend who was attacked... In a crowded area and close to the police. Pushed, persecuted, beaten and slapped on the road, all as part of what appears to be a network challenge sweeping young people in the Arab sector in the midst of Ramadan: beating Jews, preferably ultra-Orthodox or religious, documenting and sweeping as many "likes" as possible". https://www.ynet.co.il/judaism/article/BkaF1C6LO ↑ Nir Dvori, TikTok terrorism: The GSS arrested 6 people involved in lynchings of Jews in East Jerusalem. The names of 6 people involved in two lynchings of Jews were published, which took place in East Jerusalem at the end of April. The detainees attacked Jews in two different cases, filmed the attacks and uploaded to the social network. N12. Posted 14:58 14.05.21. https://www.mako.co.il/news-military/2021_q2/Article-06e368e8b9a6971026.htm ↑ G. Schneider, News in Israel. Indictments against R' Mali's attackers in Jaffa and pours boiling coffee at Nablus Gate..., Hidabroot, 14 Iyar 5771. 26.04.21. ... At the same time, the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office today filed an indictment in the city district court against Muhammad Suilem, a 19-year-old East Jerusalem resident, who was documented a week ago on the Tiktok network throwing a cup of boiling coffee at an ultra-Orthodox man passing through the Nablus gate. Another indictment in the serious incident was filed against a 17-year-old minor. According to the indictments, in the morning of April 19, Suilem was sitting on the steps overlooking the Nablus Gate in Jerusalem. Next to him sat four minors, including the minor defendant. Suilem is accused of twice trying to harm two Jews with a cup of coffee, out of a motive of racism. He then noticed another ultra-Orthodox-looking Jew walking toward the Nablus Gate. He advanced toward him, with the minor defendant cheering him on with "come on come on" and hand gestures. Another minor filmed the incident on his cellphone, live to the ticketing network, with the defendant making sure to look at the camera and read instruction calls to it such as "Take a picture of the face". He stood in front of the Jew and threw a cup of boiling coffee at him. As a result of his actions, the complainant suffered a neck burn. He was evacuated by ambulance when he was in severe pain, trembling and shocked and needed medical attention.
The indictment attributes to Suilem offenses of attempted assault for racist motive, causing grievous bodily harm and invasion of privacy. The 17-year-old minor is charged with the offenses of solicitation for attempted assault on racial motive, solicitation for causing grievous bodily harm, invasion of privacy and assault with racial motive. In addition, he is accused of racist assault for harming people with a Jewish appearance, when in one case he hit a man in the head and tried to throw the dome over his head. The prosecution sought to detain the defendants until the end of the legal proceedings against them.-Avi Gadlovich, Live broadcast on 'Tik-Tok' - This is how Arabs attacked ultra-Orthodox on the way to the Western Wall, 14 Iyar 5781. 26/04/2021.
-An indictment was filed against the Arab who was documented pouring boiling coffee on a Jew, News 20, 26/04/2021.Indictment filed against 19-year-old East Jerusalem resident for offenses of attempted assault for racial motive, causing grievous bodily harm and invasion of privacy. Another indictment was filed against a 17-year-old minor for offenses of solicitation for attempted assault on racial motive, solicitation for causing grievous bodily harm, invasion of privacy and assault on racial motive.
The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office today (Monday) filed indictments in the city district court against a 19-year-old East Jerusalem resident for offenses of attempted assault for racist motives, causing grievous bodily harm and invasion of privacy. Another indictment was filed against a 17-year-old minor for offenses of solicitation for attempted assault by racial motive, solicitation for causing grievous bodily harm, invasion of privacy and assault by racial motive. According to the indictments, filed through Adv. Rachel Aharoni-Zeevi, on April 19, ‘21 in the morning, the defendant sat on the steps overlooking the Nablus Gate in Jerusalem. At that time, four minors were sitting next to the defendant, including the minor defendant. The 19-year-old defendant tried twice. To harm two Jews with a cup of coffee and all out of a motive of racism. Immediately afterwards, he noticed another Jew walking towards the Nablus Gate. He advanced towards him and all the while the minor defendant encouraged him with shouts of "Come on come on" and hand gestures. At the same time, another minor filmed everything that was happening using his cell phone, live to the ticketing network and all while the defendant made sure to look at the camera and read towards her cries such as: "Take a picture of the face." According to the indictment, the defendant walked towards an ultra-Orthodox-looking man, stood in front of him and threw boiling coffee at his face. As a result of his actions, the complainant suffered a neck burn. He was evacuated by ambulance when he was in severe pain, trembling and shocked and in need of medical attention.
In addition, the 17-year-old minor is accused of racially motivated assault, for harming people with a Jewish appearance, in one case the defendant hit a person on the head and tried to throw the dome over his head. The prosecution seeks to detain the defendants until the end of the legal proceedings against them.The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office (criminal) has filed indictments in the city district court against a 19-year-old East Jerusalem resident for offenses of attempted assault for racist motives, causing grievous bodily harm and invasion of privacy. Another indictment was filed against a 17-year-old minor for offenses of solicitation for attempted assault by racial motive, solicitation for causing grievous bodily harm, invasion of privacy and assault by racial motive.-'Tiktok Terror' Arabs poured boiling coffee on a passing Jew, H. Goldberg, Kikar haShabbat, 19.04.21.Three young Arabs were arrested on suspicion of involvement in another attack on a Jew on the street, as part of what became known as 'Tiktok terror', when they documented pouring a cup of boiling coffee on a Jew (in Israel)
Quick arrest: A young Arab man who today (Monday) poured a cup of boiling coffee on a passing Jew, in the Old City of Jerusalem, was arrested by border police.
(Phenomenon: Abuse of the ultra-Orthodox and uploading to the Internet; A young Arab slaps a boy: 'Tomorrow it will be shooting')
In the incident, which the attacker's friends documented for publication in Tiktok, he was seen passing by a Jew at the Nablus Gate, sat back, clung to him and poured on him a cup of coffee. Immediately afterwards, the pourer and his two friends burst out laughing, and flee the area. The police recently updated: "Border Police fighters of the Israel Police and Jerusalem District Police arrested the suspect in the act, while he was at his grandmother's house in the Issawiya neighborhood in the east of the city."
Moreover: "Immediately after the incident, border guards stationed in the Nablus Gate sector arrested two of the suspects, who apparently took part in the incident and documented it, and thus the circle was closed today and the main suspect was arrested."↑ Gilad Morag, The State Attorney's Office appeals a sentence handed down to a young man who attacked Jews for racist motives: "Too easy", Ynet, Jan 6, 2022. The prosecutor's office appealed a sentence handed down to a 23-year-old man who was convicted of injuring two Jews in Jerusalem for racist motives. The indictment in which the young man admitted stated that in April, he was driving his vehicle carrying a sharp object with him. When he noticed the two making their way to the Western Wall, he decided to attack them for racist motives. So, blocking their way, shouting at them "Allah Akbar" and hitting them in the face with the sharp object. The prosecution noted that the sentence imposed on him - 11 months in prison - is too lenient and does not match the severity of the sentence.↑ 115.0 115.1 H. Goldberg, Survivor of the lynching speaks: "They wanted to kill me, I thought I would die", Kikar, Apr 23, 2021. Yahya Gerdi, a father of nine who was on his way to the Western Wall - is a survivor of the lynching tonight in the capital. Gerdi, unconscious, evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital after being severely beaten in all parts of his body by Arabs (News)
Yahya Gerdi, a father of nine who was on his way to an evening prayer at the Western Wall, is a survivor of the lynching tonight (Friday). He was evacuated unconscious to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital after being severely beaten on all parts of his body by Arab rioters.
"I was a shuttle driver, a new immigrant from Yemen. I was beaten to death. I was on my way to the Western Wall, I was scared.
"I do not know them. I do not owe anyone anything. In the morning I took a trip to Jerusalem, children. During the day I said I would go to the Western Wall to pray in Arabic. I put on Waze and he took me from there," tells the survivor brought to the police ... wounded in all parts of his body... tensions in the past week with attacks by Arabs against innocent Jewish citizens on nationalist grounds. As part of the police deployment led by the district commander, Doron Turgeman, the forces were stationed and deployed along Jaffa Street, IDF Square, Road 1 near the Nablus Gate, in the Old City, in the city's eastern neighborhoods and in other places, in order to maintain order..↑ Gilad Cohen (@GiladCohenJR) Tweeted (Apr 22, 2021): Arabs kick a Jew lying all over the ground at the Nablus Gate.↑ Y. Weiss, [4] The driver from Beit Shemesh who was attacked by Arab rioters recalls, Actualic, 23/04/2021. Yahya Gerdi, the driver from Beit Shemesh who was attacked last night (Friday) by Arab rioters in the riots in Jerusalem and was slightly injured, told today about the moments of terror from his hospital bed: "I stood in traffic jams and threw stones at my car, broke the window."
"After that they came to me and wanted to kill me, approached me and intended to stab me," Gerdy added. "I ran away, they fell on me from all directions." The driver evacuated himself to the hospital this morning after feeling unwell.↑ Alon Hachmon, "The young man who was attacked in Jerusalem by Arabs: "We are in an intifada for all intents and purposes"", Naariv, Apr 24, 2021.
Eli Rosen, the 27-year-old who was attacked by dozens of young people while walking with his dog in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood ...
- Kan news @kann_news Tweeted (Apr 24, 2021):
"He is a Jew, he is a Jew!": Documentation distributed on Palestinian networks shows young Arabs violently attacking a Jewish man in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem. Police are investigating the incident.Documentation from the night. A Jew walking with his dog near Prophets Street, was brutally attacked last night by an Arab mob.
- Yossi Eli @Yossi_eli Tweeted (Apr 24, 2021):
↑ 119.0 119.1 [Eli Rotman, An ultra-Orthodox couple and a Jew who walked with his dog were severely beaten by Arabs], Kikar, 24.04.21. Boiling documentation from the capital
An ultra-Orthodox couple and a Jew who walked with his dog were severely beaten by Arabs.
The husband and wife, who were marching in the area of their home in the French Hill neighborhood, after a Saturday night meal, encountered a group of Arab rioters, who beat them; A Jew who walked with his bitch elsewhere was brutally beaten..
Disturbances in Jerusalem: An innocent trip by an ultra-Orthodox couple, last Saturday night, ended with punches, spitting and kicks.
The couple, who left their home in the French Hill neighborhood after a Shabbat night meal, encountered a group of several young Arabs, but ignored them and continued on their way.
When one of the young men called out to them, the husband stopped, and then the other Arabs attacked him from the side and started beating him - all in front of his terrified wife.
After punching, spitting and kicking, the rioters allowed the ultra-Orthodox couple to continue on their way, and they fled the area ..
[The lynching of a girl (Photo: From Twitter)]
This is one of many serious incidents in the Holy City in recent times, with only this Saturday a number of extremely severe cases, including cruel beatings to a Jew who walked with his dog.
After they knocked him to the ground, while battle cries, terrifying, blood-curdling, the rioters kicked him again and again, until they were "willing" to leave him alone.
In another case, on Derech Bar-Lev, an Arab attacked two Jewish passers-by with an assault weapon, injuring them. The two, who were armed, did not fire, but took control of the suspect.
When his friends from the area began to gather, and fearing that the situation would escalate due to the location of the incident, the Jews left the attacker and released him, but he was arrested, when he arrived at the police station to ... he complained against them ..
In another case, which took place tonight on David Street in Jerusalem, an ultra-Orthodox man was attacked while wearing a hat he was wearing. The suspect in the act, a 25-year-old Arab, was located by police forces and taken for questioning.↑ B. Leizerowitz, A young Arab man attacked a Jew, arrested and confessed - but the case was closed 27 Kislev 5712 01.12.2021 . Radio Kol Chai. A young Arab man came out of the Temple Mount and attacked a Jew in the Old City. Recently, the Jew was shocked to discover that even though the attack was recorded on security cameras and even though the attacker admitted to the attack out of a racist motive, the investigation file against him was closed. Advocate Steiner of Honenu filed an appeal "Closing the case could harm the security of citizens"
The investigation file against a young Arab man who confessed to assaulting a Jew was closed, even though the incident was documented and the assailant admitted that he attacked out of a racist motive. Advocate Ophir Steiner of the Honenu organization representing the victim filed an appeal requesting to reopen the case.
The attack took place about six months ago, while the Jew was walking towards the Western Wall and the young Arab came out of the Temple Mount. An appeal filed with the State Attorney's Office described how the Jew walked on Hagai Street in the Old City when he was "busy with his affairs and talking on his cell phone, while passing the call to Via Dolorosa."
The investigation file against a young Arab man who confessed to assaulting a Jew was closed, even though the incident was documented and the assailant admitted that he attacked out of a racist motive. Advocate Ophir Steiner of the Honenu organization representing the victim filed an appeal requesting to reopen the case.
The attack took place about six months ago, while the Jew was walking towards the Western Wall and the young Arab came out of the Temple Mount. An appeal filed with the State Attorney's Office described how the Jew walked on Hagai Street in the Old City when he was "busy with his affairs and talking on his cell phone, while passing the call to Via Dolorosa." So, a group of about 6 young people from minorities [Arabs] approached the complainant, from the opposite direction. "One of them, moved away from the rest, and violently attacked the complainant, when he forcibly hit the complainant's body with his shoulder," Advocate Steiner described.
The Jew who was attacked immediately contacted a police officer who was nearby. "The policeman immediately detained the attacker, who said that 'he does not know why he attacked the victim,'" the appeal stated. According to the appeal, during the police investigation, the assailant admitted to assaulting the Jew due to racist motives:
Interrogator: "The interrogation material shows that you did not just come across it and you pushed it, right?" Attacker: "True". Interrogator: "Do you hate Jews?" Attacker: "Yes" ... Interrogator: "Did you push the Jew because he is a Jew?" Attacker: "Yes" Interrogator: "How did you push him?" Attacker: "On my shoulder" Interrogator: "Do you know that means you did it racist?" Attacker: "Yes." In addition, Advocate Steiner referred to the many materials proving the assault. "Hence, there is evidence in the evidence to prove the complainant's assault by the assailant, out of racist motive, in accordance with the standard required in criminal law," Advocate Steiner argued. He said the closure of the case could set a precedent that would endanger the safety of other civilians. "First and foremost - safeguarding public safety and preventing violent incidents arising from a racist-nationalist motive. Closing a case in such a serious case is contrary to the position of the legislature as to the seriousness of the acts, and may harm the security of citizens," added Adv. Steiner in the appeal. Finally, Advocate Steiner demanded that the case be reopened and that the defendant be brought to justice. The police stated in response that "as soon as the incident occurred, an investigation was opened during which all the professional actions were taken to arrive at the truth investigation, and after the investigation was completed, the case was transferred for review and the prosecutor's decision as usual."
- Shlomi Heller, A young man from East Jerusalem admitted that he attacked a man because of his Judaism - but the case against him was closed, Walla News, 28/11/2021.
The case against the 19-year-old Arab was closed, despite documentation in which the Jewish complainant was seen being attacked on a street in the Old City, and despite the suspect admitting to a police investigation that pushed him for being a Jew. "The law must be exhausted with the aggressor - for others to see and be seen."
A criminal case opened against a 19-year-old East Jerusalem resident suspected of assaulting a Jew in the Old City has been closed without any justification. This, while the assault was recorded on cameras and the suspect confessed to the acts.
The attack took place in April, when the complainant, a young Jew, was walking on Hagai Street in the Old City toward the Western Wall, where he encountered a young Arab man, who attacked him urgently, without any prior acquaintance between the two.
The complainant turned to a police officer who was standing near the scene, and reported what was happening, and the assailant was detained for questioning in which he initially stated that he "does not know why he attacked the victim." An appeal filed by Advocate Ophir Steiner of the Honenu organization, which represents the victim, states that during the police investigation, the assailant admitted that he assaulted the citizen because of his Judaism, and that he hated Jews because they "harm all Palestinian citizens." Racism, he replied in the affirmative.I also admitted that he pushed the complainant with his shoulder.
Despite clarifying the motive for the assault, after the incident the complainant was informed that the case was closed on the ground of "closure not to prosecute" - without any explanation or justification. Following this, the complainant filed an appeal against the decision and demanded to exhaust the sentence with the assailant.↑ Friday night: Arabs attacked an ultra-Orthodox couple on French Hill. Rotter News, May 24, 2021. ↑ 'Haaretz Hides the TikTok Terror'. April 25, 2021. Presspectiva: The wave of violence in Jerusalem began on April 15, when a young Arab man from Jerusalem uploaded to Tiktok his documentation of a powerful slap in the face, so to speak, to an ultra-Orthodox boy on the light rail. The trend soon spread and many young Arabs began to upload countless videos in which they were seen attacking police officers, humiliating ultra-Orthodox passers-by and beating them with severe violence. In the online edition, Haaretz devoted a small, secret and marginal article by the reporter on ultra-Orthodox affairs to document the slap in the face that started the wave. Since then, and throughout the countless records of attacks by Jewish passers-by by Arabs, I have not seen any documentation of the phenomenon in Haaretz. Six days later, in response to the flood of videos of ultra-Orthodox attacks, the far-right organization .. decided to march defiantly in the east of the city. Against Arabs in Jerusalem... The next day, his article on the situation in Jerusalem was also published in an English edition of Haaretz, around the world have hidden the reason for the outbreak of the wave of violence - flooding the network with dozens if not hundreds of documents of Jewish attacks by Arabs in Jerusalem. Instead they received a shocking headline... (using) a distinctive Antisemitic term... ↑ Haaretz anti-Jewish - full stop! [Lose, drop that "anti-zionism" mask please] Aug 3, 2020 at 13:28. DP. http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/259818 ↑ "Haaretz - pro Arab terror- disastrously unreliable, pushing Anti-Jewish racism", Aug 3, 2020. http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/259808 ↑ Hezbollah supporters, pro-Palestinian social media celebrate Meron deaths, Seth J Frantzman, JPost, May, 2021. Israel works to identify 44 killed in Lag Ba'omer Mount Meron stampede While Israelis are in mourning, the pro-Hezbollah and extremist pro-Palestinian social media accounts are calling this a “blessed Friday” posting photos of the body bags. ↑ Zamalek is free and this is my backup account زملكاوى حر و ده حسابي الاحتياطي @darsh90174722 Where is the call to prayer? اي مكان يرفع فيه الاذان Joined August 2020 726 Following. Darsh @Daaaaaarsh1: اووه حقاً فقط 44 اللهم زد وبارك ويكثر العدد والله يكثر من كذا احتفالات ومكافأت لكم بااحتفالاتكم يا حفدة القرود والخنازير يا قتلة الانبياء والرسل يا انجس واقذر وأعفن مخلوقات الله يامن لعنتم وحل عليكم غضب الرب إلى يوم تُبعثون أللهم زد وبارك يارب Oh, really only 44 Oh Allah, increase and bless and increase the number, and God multiply from such celebrations and reward you with your celebrations, O granddaughter of monkeys and pigs, O killers of prophets and messengers, O unclean, filthiest and rotten creatures of Allah, O you who cursed and the wrath of the Lord came upon you until the day you are resurrected! Apr 30, 2021; [Palestinian Photojournalist Called them "settlers"...]. Issam Rimawi: Palestinian Photojournalist . Live in Ramallah , Palestine. Issam @Issamrimawi: Ha'aretz: At least 44 settlers were killed and more than 150 injured in the mass celebrations of Lag Bomer on "Mount Meron" هآرتس: قُتل ما لا يقل عن 44 مستوطنا وأصيب أكثر من 150 آخرين في احتفالات لاغ بومر الجماعية في "جبل ميرون" 2:51 AM · Apr 30, 2021 ↑ H. Goldich, "Charge: Attacked two undercover police officers for racist motive, YNet, June 21, 2021. A 24-year-old man from the a-Tour neighborhood in Jerusalem was charged following an attack by Border Police officers disguised as ultra-Orthodox. The police arrested two people after one of them sprayed tear gas into their car.
The attack on two Border Police undercover operatives about ten days ago in the a-Tor neighborhood of Jerusalem ended today (Monday) with the filing of an indictment against 24-year-old Lui Stlyah (Loui Stliah), a resident of the area.
The policemen asked a group of young people how to get to the Mount of Olives cemetery, then one of the young men approached the car and sprayed tear gas. The officers got out of the car, fired into the air for a warning and arrested two suspects.
According to the indictment, the police officers were traveling on Rabaa al-Adawiya Street between Augusta Victoria Hospital and al-Makassed Hospital. At the time, the defendant was sitting at a bus stop near al-Makassed Hospital along with several other young men. He carried a folding knife and tear gas spray.
The police identified the young men and stopped the car next to them. The policeman sitting next to the driver opened the window and asked for directions to the cemetery on the Mount of Olives. The young people approached the vehicle. One of them explained how to get to the cemetery, adding "this time we will be nice to you. Come out so they don't throw stones at you." Before the officers left the scene, the defendant approached the car and sprayed tear gas through the open window, "and all for racist motives or due to hostility towards the public because of religion," the indictment said.
Border police undercover officers arrested two of the suspects who tried to attack the forces. The police said that the spray penetrated the vehicle and caused the police to feel suffocated and uncomfortable...↑ (@yedidya_epshtei) Tweeted: July 24, 2021 During the last Shabbat, helpless ultra-Orthodox [Haredi] Jews were attacked by Arab rioters at the Nablus Gate, while the parents of the young children were forced to carry the helpless children with difficulty on the stairs, all this happening in front of the celebrating Arabs. https://t.co/LUX6auRPMs ___ SuperCat (@SuperCat_alw) Tweeted: Unfortunately, ultra-Orthodox [Haredi] Jews are a regular target of East Jerusalem Arabs. Recalls that the spark that started the fire that led to the wall guard was a ticking video of an Arab slapping an ultra-Orthodox on a light rail. July 24, 2021 ↑ 129.0 129.1 Yishai Friedman, The "non-racist" attacker from Jaffa works for liberation "from occupation" and admires Hitler, Makor Rishon, April 22, 2021. The court ruled that the attackers in Jaffa did not act out of nationalist motives, but a brief browse on his Facebook page reveals quite a bit of antisemitic content.
The flipping of the nationalist, racist and anti-Semitic motives was very rapid. Too fast. Because in the story of the two attackers, members of the Garbua family, there is a lot of art and hatred of Jews... From conversations I had with Jewish residents in Jaffa who experienced harassment from their Arab neighbors, it turns out that this is not the first time that one of the brothers, Ahmad Garbua, has harassed someone who he saw as a Jew.... Ahmad Garbua was the one who said, according to his testimony in the interrogation and according to the testimony of R' Eliyahu Mali who was attacked, that "Jews will not be in Jaffa." I do not know, to me it sounds like a distinctly racist and anti-Jewish statement.
A year ago a number of Arabs beat up a yeshiva student who went to solitude on the promenade; A few weeks ago, a Jewish boy filed a complaint with the police against Arab boys who beat him and called him a "J. dog." There is a lot of violence and anti-Semitism in Jaffa, we just do not see it and are certainly less interested in hearing about it. All this until a strictly antisemitic image of two violently beating Jews with a religious appearance explodes in our face.
Jews in Jaffa, mostly religious, experience violence and anti-Semitism every week that includes beatings and harassment. The Israeli police act and stop attackers in case of a complaint, but the atmosphere among the authorities (court, municipality and also the police), quite a few locals tell me, is to sweep under the rug the nationalist and racist issue. When Arab boys beat a yeshiva student just like that on a clear day, it is a "brawl," with no nationalist or racist background, just a local criminal incident. These incidents are not reported or defined, neither by state authorities nor by the media, as hate crimes as is customary in... But everyone knows and understands that the motive is a great hatred for the presence of Jews in these places. But what makes the dance of righteousness and inclusion of the left particularly embarrassing are the publications over the years of Ahmad Garbua in which he is revealed as one who is not ashamed to spread anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews and much to Palestinian art. Not a neighbors' conflict but a national-religious struggle in which it is expressed that the Jews are "the sons of the monkeys and the pigs" and shows great enthusiasm from people like Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein... Garbou also revealed his sincere appreciation to people like Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler. "May Allah have mercy on you, you lion," he wrote of bin Laden in 2013...
In 2014 he wrote admiringly of Hitler and also... In another status that year he wrote that he prayed that Allah would have mercy on the soul of the "martyr Hitler". (Ahmad Mohamad Garbou, Sep 6, 2014).
A video of admiration for Hitler in the Arabic language he uploaded, censored by YouTube...
accusing Netanyahu of "becoming Hitler", and wrote that "Hitler left people like you so the world can see what Zionism is."↑ Sara Ha'etzni-Cohen, "Israel's iron fist is anything but", Oct 7, 2021. The Arab Israelis that attacked Rabbi Mali in Jaffa were known antisemitic nationalists, yet the police prosecutor failed to note the racial motive behind the attack.
R. Eliyahu Mali is a resident of Jaffa and the head of Shirat Moshe Hesder Yeshiv in the city. Around six months ago, he and a colleague were violently assaulted when two Arabs began to kick, curse, and threaten them in broad daylight. In their resourcefulness, Mali's colleague documented the incident, something that resulted in his hospitalization. These were the days leading up to the riots of May 2021, and the images were widely distributed and resulted in a public outcry.
This week, the sense of shock grew following reports of the plea deal reached with the attackers, Ahmed and Mahmoud Garbua. In return for their confession, a ridiculous plea deal was signed that will see them sentenced to between five and nine months of community service. It is absolutely insane that the Israeli Police Prosecution and Tel Aviv Magistrate Court Judge Roy Perry both signed off on this agreement.
The police prosecutor did not even bother to assign a racial motive to the attack, something that would have resulted in more severe punishment. They failed to do this despite the fact that, as they were hitting and kicking and explicitly threatening the victims' lives, they shouted that "Jaffa will not have Jews." One of the attackers has a rich history of posting nationalist and antisemitic content on social media, including praise for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, videos on "J. dogs and America," and "the truth about the sons of monkeys and pigs." He has also expressed a desire for the liberation of "occupied Jaffa." And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Racial motive? What racial motive?
Israelis are even more frustrated by the plea deal because all the facts are known. We know the Garbua brothers attacked Mali because they are antisemitic nationalists. The Garbua brothers know it too. Everyone knows this and admits as much behind closed doors. It is, however, a little difficult to prove. That is why they opted for the easier solution. Another question that needs to be asked is: Why did they even have to reach such a lenient plea deal in return for the brothers' confession when images of the violence exist in which the attackers' faces can clearly be seen? Everything is documented, and it is clear that they are guilty. Why, then, would you lighten their sentence in return for them confessing the obvious?↑ Liran Tamari, https://jerusalem.mynet.co.il/local_news/article/B11u4Iend A month after the incident: Two sanitation workers were arrested on suspicion of throwing stones at Jews], Jerusalem Mynet, 23.06.21. (Journalist) Liran Tamari @Liran_tamari Tweeted May 2, 2021.Two Jerusalem Municipality employees, employed by a contracting company, were arrested on suspicion of throwing stones for racist motive, out of the garbage truck. The judge criticized the police for delaying the arrest for a relatively long time and ordered their release. The police are considering appealing the decision.
Yesterday (Tuesday), the Jerusalem police arrested two Arab sanitation workers on suspicion of throwing stones at Jews from a garbage truck. Judge Elad Lang ordered their release after the arrest was made a month after the incident: "This reason does not justify a one-day delay from the date of the identity of the respondents until the date of their arrest."
They were arrested on suspicion of throwing stones of racist motive out of the garbage truck
The incident took place about a month ago in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood when, according to the suspicion, the two young men working for the Jerusalem municipality threw stones at a group of Jews for racist reasons. Following a heavy workload in the investigative unit, the two were arrested only yesterday.
During a hearing on the police's request to extend the two's detention by five days, the judge criticized the police for delaying the detention for a relatively long time, after the incident and for that reason ordered their release: "The identity of the respondents A request for the arrest of the respondents was submitted and given only on 21.6.21, between one month after the date on which the identity of the respondents was known to the investigating individual. The investigator would have acted to request and execute the arrest warrant at an earlier date. "Two Arab workers of the Jerusalem municipality were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of assaulting a number of Jewish boys on a racial background in the Old City area.↑ Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu mourns Yehuda Guetta hy"d: Murdered only because he was a Jew, INN, 06.05.21. Hundreds of family, friends and acquaintances accompanied Yehuda today (Thursday) on his last journey Hundreds of family members, friends and acquaintances accompanied Yehuda Guetta, the 19-year-old who was killed in a terrorist attack at Tapuach Junction, on his last journey today (Thursday).↑ Neteal Bendel, "The High Court approved the demolition of the family home of the murderer of Yehuda Guetta." Haaretz, June 23, 2021. The High Court today (Wednesday) approved the demolition of the house of Muntasir Shalabi, who is accused of carrying out the attack in which Yehuda Guetta was killed last month near the Tapuach junction in the West Bank. Justices Yitzhak Amit, David Mintz and Ofer Grosskopf rejected a petition In the village of Turmus Aya, where his wife and three of his children live. Judge Mintz reiterated the ruling that "the need for deterrence remains the same even when it comes to a residence where minors live." The judges rejected the family's claim that Shalabi suffered from mental problems, and ruled that he carried out the attack out of a nationalist motive.
The judges also rejected petitioners' claim that the building where the family lives does not serve as the home of Shalabi, whose center of life is in the U.S. According to family members, Shalabi lives and works in the U.S., where he married three other women, one of whom also has another child. The judges ruled that Shalabi himself noted that the house, where he had previously lived with his parents, was transferred to his possession after their deaths and that he used to live in it for a period of two months each year.↑ Elisha Ben Kimon, Eyal Arbid, The IDF destroyed the house of the terrorist who murdered a yeshiva student at Tapuach Junction - Documentation, YNet, 08/07/2021. Two months after Shalabi had shot dead 19-year-old Yehuda Guetta at the Tapuach junction, IDF forces destroyed the terrorist's home in a village near Ramallah. Guetta's two friends were injured in the shooting attack. ... The terrorist arrived by train at a junction in Samaria, where Guetta and his two friends were standing at the bus stop. As the defendant approached the station, he noticed the civilians standing there, and identified them as Jews. Shalabi stopped the vehicle, took the gun and shouted "Allah Akbar", aimed his weapon at those standing at the station, and fired many bullets from a short distance.
Defendant stopped firing only after the barrel of the gun exploded, when the indictment alleged that he intended to cause the deaths of civilians on purpose. Two more times Shalabi tried to carry out an attack, but did not feel well. It was further stated that he had used the weapon in a previous case, as he had practiced it on agricultural land. After the attack, the terrorist fled to an acquaintance who lives in the village of Akraba, and informed him about the execution of the attack. He asked his friends to hide him...↑ Ari Litman, The background is nationalist: the marriage proposal ended in a lynching by three residents of East Jerusalem, Kol Hair, Jun 21, 2021. Aviyah Antman proposed marriage to his partner on the eve of Jerusalem Day. About an hour later, Arab rioters savagely attacked them on nationalistic grounds. An indictment was filed against three of them.
The prosecutor's office submitted to the Jerusalem District Court an indictment against three residents of East Jerusalem - Omar Jaber (25), Ashraf Jaber (24) and Yousef Jaber (18), for involvement in the lynching of Aviyah Antman shortly after he proposed marriage to his daughter His wife in Beit HaChoshen in the A-Tor neighborhood.
The incident took place on the eve of Jerusalem Day, the day before the start of Operation "Guardian of the Walls". According to the indictment, after the marriage proposal, the couple continued driving towards the Beit Orot neighborhood. Around eight o'clock in the evening, at the A-Tor intersection, some rioters recognized that they were Jews and started running after the vehicle while shouting "Settler, you son of a b#tch." The three defendants, who were driving in front of the couple's vehicle, heard the screams and realized that they were Jews. The accused Omar, who was driving the car, suddenly braked and blocked the couple's car to prevent their continued journey. The rioters started throwing stones at the couple while they were inside the vehicle, breaking its rear window. At some point her father got out of the vehicle and was caught by the rioters, who beat him in all parts of his body while he was lying on the floor, and were joined by the defendants Omar and Yousef. At the same time Shahar also escaped from the vehicle, hid behind another vehicle and called the police. During the incident, her father was beaten using a police barrier, sticks, a sharp object and even a full can of Excel hit his head. This is in addition to the slaps, punches and kicks he received in all parts of his body. The accused Ashraf stayed in the car during the incident, and later got into the driver's seat and moved it.
Finally Aviyah managed to escape from the rioters and return to his car. So he drove to the nearby Beit Orot neighborhood and called the police. As a result of the attack, he suffered many bruises and two stab wounds to his back. He was hospitalized for five days and underwent surgery.
The three are accused of a terrorist act of aggravated malicious wounding, rioting and willfully damaging a vehicle with a racial motive. Their detention was extended until the end of the proceedings against them.↑ Orli Harari, Lynch in a marriage proposal: Avia and Shahar Antman filed a civil lawsuit of millions of shekels against the terrorists, INN, Feb 7, 2023. The Antmans, who were injured in a lynching on the Mount of Olives when they returned from their marriage proposal, filed a civil lawsuit of approximately NIS 2,000,000 against the terrorists who carried out the lynching.
Avia and Shahar Antman, who were attacked two years ago after returning from their marriage proposal at Beit ha-Hoshen in Jerusalem, filed a civil lawsuit in the district court through attorney Haim Bleicher from the Honenu organization against the terrorists Nawaf Abu Alhawa [نواف أبو الهوى] and Rami Salah El-Din [رامي صلاح الدين] who participated in the lynching, in the amount of NIS 1,950,000.
The terrorists were convicted in the Jerusalem District Court in June 2022 as part of a plea deal and were sentenced to 5 and 7 years in prison. The prosecution appealed the terrorists' sentence to the Supreme Court and it was increased to 6 and 9 years in prison.
In the lawsuit filed by Attorney Bleicher, details about the damage caused to them as a result of the incident and details about the pain and suffering they experienced, and are still experiencing, mainly on the mental level, following the incident. As part of the lawsuit, the victims ask the court to award the terrorists punitive damages, due to the fact that the terrorists caused The damages from a racist-nationalist motive (terrorism).
Let's recall that the lynching happened about two years ago, after Avia proposed marriage to his chosen heart Shahar in Beit Ha-Hoshen overlooking the Temple Mount. On their way back from the marriage proposal, their car was blocked by Arab rioters who started throwing rocks and stones at them. Aviah got out of the car and was beaten, stoned and even stabbed in the back. Shahar managed to escape and join the police, and her injured father also came to them. He was taken to Shaare Zedek Hospital, and was hospitalized and needed prolonged medical treatment - which postponed the couple's engagement party.
Attorney Bleicher said after filing the statement of claim: "Islamic terrorism is constantly working to cause panic and harm the citizens of Israel in a severe and cruel manner. We will do everything to exact the heaviest price possible from those terrorists. Anyone who participated in the brutal lynching is expected to receive this type of lawsuit. After accompanying the criminal proceedings with the demand for a stricter prison sentence, we hope in this way of hitting the pocket to contribute our part in the war to deter terrorism."↑ M. Zigdon, They lynched a Jew and tried to set fire to a bus with the passengers on the way to Ma'ale Adumim, News at Mahle Net, 23/06/2021. A sharp indictment was filed against three Arabs from the east of the city who lynched Aviah Antman - two of them were indicted for attempting to set fire to a bus near the Naomi Shemer tunnel with Molotov cocktails that only luckily did not hit the bus - the three were arrested until the end of the proceedings.
The State Attorney's Office filed an indictment in the Jerusalem District Court last Sunday against Omar Jaber (25), Ashraf Jaber (24) and Yusef Jaber (18), residents of East Jerusalem, for involvement in a lynching of Aviah Antman, shortly after he proposed Marriage to his partner in Beit Hachoshen in the At-Tur neighborhood. Two of them are accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a bus after the Mount Scopus tunnel, and only luckily the bus was not hit or caught on fire.
The three are accused of a terrorist act of aggravated intentional sabotage, rioting and intentional sabotage a vehicle, racially motivated. The prosecution requested that their detention be extended until the end of the proceedings, and the court granted the request.
According to the indictment, on the evening of May 9, Antman arrived with his partner, Shachar Cohen, at the Hoshen House on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, where he proposed marriage to her. The two then continued their journey towards the Beit Orot neighborhood in the city, and around eight o'clock in the evening when they reached the a-Tor junction, some rioters who recognized that they were Jews - started running after the vehicle while shouting "Settler, son of a b#tch."
The three defendants, who were driving in front of the couple's vehicle, heard the shouts and understood that they were Jews. Defendant Omar, who was driving the vehicle, suddenly braked and blocked the couple's vehicle to prevent them from continuing their journey, so that the rioters could attack them "for ideological-nationalist motives because they were Jews," the indictment said. The rioters began throwing stones at the couple while inside the vehicle, breaking its rear window.
At one point Aviah got out of the vehicle and was caught by the rioters, who beat him all over his body while he was lying on the floor. Defendants Omar and Yusef also joined them. At the same time, Shahar also escaped from the vehicle, hid behind another vehicle and called the police. During the incident Avia was beaten using a police checkpoint, sticks, a sharp object and even a full axle can that hit his head. This is in addition to the slaps, punches and kicks he received on all parts of his body. Defendant Ashraf remained in the vehicle at the time of the incident, and later entered the driver’s seat and moved it.
The indictment states that Aviah finally managed to escape from the rioters and return to his vehicle, then drove to the nearby Beit Orot neighborhood and called the border forces. As a result of the attack he sustained numerous bruises and two stab wounds in the back.
Defendants Ashraf and Yusef Jaber are charged with additional offenses they committed in another incident that occurred two days later. They are charged with a terrorist act of attempted arson, action with a weapon for terrorist purposes, throwing or firing a stone or object at a vehicle, intentionally sabotaging out of a racist motive and an act of terrorism with aggravated intentional sabotage.
Molotov cocktails on a bus in a tunnel
The indictment states that on May 11, around 9 pm, the two met at the Flower Gate in Jerusalem, together with another person, Fares Jaber. The three planned to throw stones and Molotov cocktails at an Egged bus traveling in the direction of Ma'ale Adumim and passing on the main street below the At-Tur neighborhood, "in order to set it on fire out of nationalist-ideological motives, due to being a Jewish company bus and to harm Jewish passengers using the bus." In the indictment.
The three went to Yusef's house, and on the way collected glass bottles they found. When they arrived at the house, Yusef filled the bottles with gasoline from a generator in his house, and packed them with glue. The three set off after leaving their cell phones at home so they could not be traced through locations.
The indictment states that the three marched in masked clothes on the road to Ma'ale Adumim in the direction of the a-Za'im checkpoint, when they noticed two tires on the way. Fares placed them on the road in order to slow down the movement of vehicles and allow the stones and Molotov cocktails to be thrown at them. At around ten o'clock at night, an Egged bus passed by, where an Arab citizen was driving and between 10 and 15 passengers were traveling on it.
After crossing the Naomi Shemer tunnel and noticing the burning tires, the driver slowed down, instructing the passengers to lie down on the floor. The defendants threw large stones at the bus and threw Molotov cocktails. One of the bottles hit the right side of the bus, fell to the floor and did not catch fire. The other two hit the ground.↑ The lynching in the marriage proposal in "Guardian of the Walls": the court increased the punishment of the terrorists by one year and two more years in prison, Rotter, 29.11.22. Judge Noam Solberg increased the prison sentences of the two terrorists who attacked the couple and stated: "The day they slept - like a step would have been their disaster." The Supreme Court accepted the state's appeal and aggravated the punishment of two terrorists who committed a series of disturbances and attacks on the security forces and civilians, including the lynching of the couple who returned from a marriage proposal, during Operation "Guardian of the Walls" in Jerusalem. The judges, Solberg, Elron and Grosskopf decided that one terrorist who was sentenced to nine years in prison will spend two more years in prison and a second terrorist who was sentenced to six years in prison will spend another year in prison. The verdict describes the severe lynching of the couple: "On May 9, 2021, Shahar Miriam Cohen and Aviyah Antman - a Jewish couple, who on that day came in the engagement ring - were driving in their car from 'Beit Hoshen' (a building in the A-Tor neighborhood in East Jerusalem, where Jewish families live) to the Beit Orot neighborhood (which is also located in East Jerusalem). During their journey, when the couple arrived at the A-Tor intersection, around 2:00 a.m., a crowd of rioters recognized that there were Jewish passengers in the car. Following this, the crowd began to run after the car, shouting "Settler settler", while uttering curses and profanity. "Since the passengers of the car that was moving in front of the couple's car were standing on the scene, they chose to block the couple's path, and join the rioting crowd. And so, when the couple were sitting in their car, and could not drive away from the place, the crowd began throwing stones at the car. This, he arrived at Rami's place, and hit the car window with his hand, until it broke. Aviyah, trying to defend himself, got out of the car, but then the rioters put their hands on him, and began to lynch him; Aviyah was attacked and beaten in all parts of his body, including his head, with fists, by kicking, as well as by throwing stones and other objects at him. One of the rioters, who has not been identified so far, even stabbed Aviyah in the back, once and twice, with a sharp object, causing him two stab wounds.
Nawaf, too, chose to actively participate in the criminal act, and hit Aviyah body using a police checkpoint that was nearby; Rami, at the same time, attacked Aviyah with kicks. All this, while her father is lying on the floor, surrounded and attacked by an enraged mob," wrote the judges.
Judge Solberg noted that "there is no need to exaggerate the seriousness of the criminal actions of Nawaf and Rami. First and foremost, the brutal, violent and despicable act of lynching, which if the couple had not managed to escape the perpetrators - who will be saved after it."
The judge also wrote, "It seems that in our case, great weight should also be attributed to the severe damages that the adulterous grandfather and Rami, in their actions detailed in the first charge, caused to the couple, young men who did no harm to anyone from the enraged crowd, who chose to attack them with great cruelty. As emerges from the material placed before us, apart from the The serious physical injury that was caused to her father, and which still accompanies him, also caused the couple a deep mental injury; the day of their separation - Kafesa was their disaster, and they were destined to experience during it a traumatic and extremely difficult event."
Attorney Haim Bleicher from the Honenu organization who represented the couple said: "We welcome the acceptance of the appeal and the Supreme Court's statement regarding the need to make the punishment of the terrorists more severe. In any case, and as written in the verdict, the punishment that the terrorists finally received does not constitute justice." "We expect the Jerusalem District Court to change their lenient approach and hand down significant sentences to the terrorists tried there. A terrorist who committed a lynching and also attacked the security forces on several occasions with lethal means must receive several years in prison for his actions, otherwise, how will we deter and prevent us or his friends Repeat acts of sabotage and terrorism?", said Bleicher. The couple Abia and Shahar Antman, who were the victims of the lynching, told about him a few months ago in court. Aviyah focused on describing the difficulties that the couple had been going through since the lynching. "As long as we do not know that our defendants have received their justice, then it is difficult for us to walk around Jerusalem. As long as they do not receive their punishment, we will not be calm. I expect the court to make the justice of the defendants who hurt me more severe." His wife Shahar described to the judge how their happy day turned into a traumatic event. "It is about the event of our marriage proposal, an event that we have waited for and dreamed about all our lives. This event, instead of being remembered forever as the happiest event in our lives, will be remembered as a trauma."
Shahar later said that the two carry the consequences with them to this day. "Things we did not experience before the incident, fear and threat that we are experiencing. From this is also our request that the defendants in our case be punished to the maximum extent. There are also some of the attackers who have not been arrested to this day. We seek to deter them and others like them, so that they understand that this is something that does not pay off for them. We will be happy That the court will take into account what we experienced and exhaust the law with them."↑ Roei Shusha, Yitzhak Abuhatzira, 'The association behind the attempts to ferment in Operation Guardian of the Walls,' Ch 20, 21 Kislev 5782 (25/11/2021). Two days before the official start of Operation Guardian of the Walls, when clashes broke out on the Temple Mount and Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem over the settlement of Jewish families in the neighborhood, the Al-Aqsa Association, affiliated with the Southern Islamic Movement, organized buses to transport Muslim worshipers from the north to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. I will take action against the settlers, "according to the association.
A few weeks ago, the organization 'Ad Kan' ['Until Here'] revealed the connection of the RA'AM party [United Arab List] to the "Aid 48" organization, which flows tens of millions of shekels a year to the families of terrorists in Judea and Samaria, the Gaza Strip, Syria and more. Today, another organization is being revealed in the organization, which is run by senior members of the Islamic Movement and is also affiliated with the RA'AM party [United Arab List], according to the organization.
As you may recall, in May, a few days before the opening of Operation Guardian of the Walls and in the midst of riots and violence throughout the country, buses carried Muslims from the northern area to the Temple Mount. The Israel Police realized that this move could stir up the winds in Jerusalem, and decided to place roadblocks on Road 1 to Jerusalem to stop the movement of Muslims to the Temple Mount. In response, the Muslims got off the buses, blocked the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road for several hours and began walking to the Temple Mount.
Now, it is revealed in the organization 'Ad Kan' ["Up to Here"] that it is the Al Aqsa organization that is responsible for the arrival of the buses in Jerusalem "to protect Al Aqsa from the settlers," according to the association. This is not the first time that Al-Aqsa (org.) has been caught in a dangerous activity for national security. From 2007 to 2015, the organization received about NIS 12.5 million from funds abroad, which fund Hamas. In 2015, the Ministry of Defense confiscated all funds in the association's bank account as well as the association's property, due to receiving funds from Hamas funds outlawed in Israel. This revelation about Al-Aqsa is a direct continuation of the activities of the organization 'Ad Kan' ["Up to Here"] together with the "Voters for Life" forum of the bereaved families who in recent weeks exposed the activities of senior RA'AM members with the Hamas organization.
Gilad Ach, the director general of the organization 'Ad Kan' ["Up to Here"], responded that "we must not endanger the future of the country by transferring huge budgets to terrorist elements through the back door of the Islamic movement. "We are immediately setting up a professional investigation team that will monitor the money that goes to the RA'AM and the Islamic movement from the taxes of all of us and call on the public to give a shoulder. Only in this way can we save the State of Israel."↑ Antisemite of the Week: Omar Shakir - Bigot with a Vengeance, stopantisemitism.org, May 1, 2021. 2014: Shakir defended Steven Salaita, a University of Illinois professor who was fired over his countless antisemitic tweets...
Shakir made an effort to make the Jewish man on the left below appear "white" and the Palestinian woman on the right below appear "brown", masterfully hiding the fact that Israel's Jewish population is comprised of majority Mezrahi/Sephardic Jews (brown) vs. Ashkenazi (white-passing) Jews.
Shakir also took to Twitter to post about the current riots in Jerusalem. Rather than being honest and exposing the Arab youth gangs terrorizing the city's Jewish population, Shakir once again vilified the Jews and attempted to bring in irrelevant American social justice issues - this time police brutality - into the picture. He was instantly called out by us for deceivingly posting a photo from the 2015 riots. Despite being exposed for blatantly lying, he has yet to remove the tweet.↑ Lynch at Migdal gas station HakolHayehudi, 27 Shevet 5781 - 09/02/2021. Yeshiva students were evacuated for medical treatment as they suffered severe injuries after being severely attacked by Arabs at a gas station near Tiberias. They said that the attackers beat them while shouting "Allah u akbar" and even tried to run over them with their vehicle. At the event, a number of Breslav followers were severely beaten with batons by Arabs who shouted racist slogans at them and pulled their sidecurls. One of the suspects in the act was arrested by the Tiberias police, and yesterday the suspect was identified during a confrontation at the police station by one of the complainants as the one who attacked him. ↑ Attack on yeshiva students: Police arrested three suspicious Arabs Baruch Shapira, 4 Ader 5781, 16.02.21, JDN. Three suspects have so far been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a lynching committed on yeshiva students last week at a gas station near Migdal. "Expect attackers to be charged with serious violent offenses and attempted murder for attempting to run over victims of racist motives." ↑ Ch 20 News, 16.02.21. A Jew ... in the Shiloah spring and was severely attacked by an Arab. An Arab was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a Hasidic-Jew in Jerusalem on Silwan Street for no reason and without violence, about a week ago. According to the complainant, the attacker hit him in the head, kicked and cursed and even threw him on a vehicle that was at the scene.↑ Omri Haim (@HaimOmri) Tweeted: March 24, 2021. "We entered the most dangerous place the Jews have occupied!" | This is the title given by the East Jerusalem Arab blogger, Saleh Zirari, to a 9-minute video he uploaded in recent days to his YouTube page in which he documented himself and his friend touring the Western Wall plaza. From the description of his "experiences" in the place: "These, the settlers, smell their scent from a thousand kilometers away." ↑ An Arab blogger from East Jerusalem walks around the Western Wall and documents himself: "One smells their scent", Yanki Farber, Avi Gdlovich, Bhol, 6 Iyar 5781 18/04/2021. Two Palestinians documented themselves in an antisemitic show at the Western Wall and posted it on the popular YouTube account they own. Following the publication of the documentation by Omri Haim of KAN 11, the video disappeared from their YouTube account. "We have entered the most dangerous place occupied by the Jews!" | Shocking documentation.
Against the background of recent documentation showing Palestinians behaving violently and racistly against ultra-Orthodox people on the streets of Jerusalem, very disturbing documentation was recently published from the Western Wall.
The two Palestinians who walked around the Western Wall posted the documentation on YouTube, but after the publication of the documentation by Omri Haim wrote in the Arab desk here 11, the video disappeared from their YouTube account. "We have entered the most dangerous place occupied by the Jews!" This is the title given by the East Jerusalem Arab blogger, Saleh Zirari, to a 9-minute video he uploaded to his YouTube page in which he documented himself and his friend touring the Western Wall plaza. From the description of his "experiences" in the place: "These, the settlers, smell their scent from a thousand kilometers away."
Following the publication of the video in KAN News, in which the racist remarks of the Arab-Jerusalem blogger Saleh Zirari against Jews praying at the Western Wall were presented, B'Tsalmo turned to the ombudsman to open an investigation into the case and prosecute the creator of the video for racism and attempted harm. In feelings of religion. "
In her face it was said: An Arab blogger who is a network star living in East Jerusalem named Saleh Zirari who chooses to come to the Western Wall and harm the Jewish people. During his tour of the Western Wall, he uploads a live video to more than one hundred thousand of his followers in which he is heard saying and I quote "These, the settlers, smell their scent from a thousand kilometers away."
It was also said in her face: The blogger says in the video, "..
Goes on to say "they are not people", then he goes on to say "leave no matter" and goes on "I do not want YouTube to remove our video because of inappropriate words or swearing"
The video was uploaded to YouTube and received over a hundred thousand views, in addition it hints that the Jews are violent and indicates that they entered the most dangerous place for the Palestinians. With the intention of course that the worshipers can harm him.
It was also written in her face that there is no doubt that a Jew would go up to the Temple Mount and upload a video of himself to hundreds of thousands of followers in which he states that the Arabs are not human, a great storm would break out.
I urge you to immediately open an investigation into the case and prosecute him for racism as well as for attempting to harm religious sentiments.↑ Prohibition on selling entrants on the basis of race - a new and discriminatory religious ruling (Fatwa) in Jerusalem, Rotter, 11.04.21.
Holder of the confiscation letter: Sheikh Akrama Tsabari, the former Mufti of Jerusalem who wrote in 2002 the booklet "Palestine, Man and the Land" which included antisemitic motifs from the protocols of the Elders of Zion. He forbade the residents of East Jerusalem to obtain Israeli citizenship, denied the existence of the State of Israel and the right of Jews in Israel and Jerusalem.
اسف جيبور assaf gibor @assafgibor Tweeted: (Apr 10, 2021):
Following the purchase of the houses in Silwan by the Ateret Cohanim Association, the residents of Silwan issued regulations and boycotts against sellers and dealers of houses and land to the settlers: traitors should not be boycotted, not married, sold or rented, In Muslim cemeteries.
Yes ... For them, every Jew who lives here is a settler: Meirav Michael from Tel Aviv, Zehava Gal-On from Petah Tikva, Ofer Kasif and Nitzan Horowitz from Rishon Lezion. They are all "settlers."
(Ben Moshe tweeted:
And Mandelblit does not open an investigation into racist discrimination, threats and violence?)↑ May 10, 2021 ↑ The Truth About The Sheikh Jarrah Evictions. May 12, 2021. Erielle Davidson. https://news.yahoo.com/truth-sheikh-jarrah-eviction-163629383.html ↑ On Eastern Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah and Israel. May 14, 2021, JNS. https://www.jns.org/opinion/on-eastern-jerusalem-sheikh-jarrah-and-israel/ ↑ "Almost Nothing You've Heard About Evictions in Jerusalem Is True." Avi Bell, Eugene Kontorovich. WSJ, May 14, 2021. https://www.wsj.com/articles/almost-nothing-youve-heard-about-evictions-in-jerusalem-is-true-11621019410 ↑ "Sheikh Jarrah dispute reflects Arab-Israeli conflict. Shimon HaTzadik is a neighborhood where Jews and Arab could have lived side by side peacefully – had Arabs not tried to ethnically cleanse all of the Jews living there." By Micha Danzig. Israel Hayom, May 10, 2021. Lahttps://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/sheikh-jarrah-dispute-reflects-arab-israeli-conflict/ ↑ Zeev Kam: This evening, like every evening, lately, Arabs protest, at times violently, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem against Jewish presence in the neighborhood. The Arabs demand the area free of Jews ... May 4, 2021 ↑ Breaking the Silence - Mohammed Deif: "Israel will pay a heavy price". Srugim News. 05.05.21 . Hamas terrorist Mohammed Deif backs up the riots of the Arabs and the extreme left against the buyers of houses in the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood:... "it will pay a heavy price." The redemption of houses in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem (Shimon ha-Tzaddik), and the riots of the Arabs and left-wing elements opposed to the purchase of houses by Jews in the Israeli capital, bring former Hamas military wing leader Mohammed Deif to break the silence.↑ May 7. 2021. https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1217304 ↑ "Three Palestinians indicted in lynching of Jewish passerby in Sheikh Jarrah." According to the indictment, suspects attacked the victim for his Jewish appearance (clothes, etc.) as he was walking with his dog through the East Jerusalem neighborhood late last month Chaim Golditch, Ynet, 05.24.21. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BJADf00tFO ↑ Avi Bell,The Sheikh Jarrah property dispute and the false claim of Israeli land discrimination, JNS, May 23, 2021. ↑ Richard Pollock, "A Will to Survive’ recalls Arab ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem’s Jews", JNS, August 12, 2021. A “Life” magazine photojournalist rekindles the 1948 Arab destruction of the city’s Jewish Quarter, along with the eviction of its residents.
I recently stumbled upon a photography book shot by the acclaimed Life magazine wartime photographer John Phillips. The large, innocuous-looking book was simply titled, A Will to Survive. After flipping through the pages, I realized I entered a time capsule that memorializes the Arab destruction of Jerusalem’s ancient Jewish Quarter in 1948.
Not only is it a dramatic firsthand account of the fall of the Jewish Quarter in 1948, but it documents the Arab Legion’s scorched-earth tactics that razed and burned to the ground every structure there, including all its synagogues and yeshivahs. The Arabs expelled all of the city’s residents, mainly defenseless, old Orthodox Jews. They were given about an hour to vacate homes that most extended families had lived in for centuries.↑ Hadoar, Vol. 81. Iss. 19. ha-Do'ar Association, 2002. p. 10. ↑ Alan Balfour, "The Walls of Jerusalem: Preserving the Past, Controlling the Future," (John Wiley & Sons, 2019), p. 142. An estimated 2000 Jews remained in the old city during the conflict and every man woman and child who had lived in peace with their Arab neighbors for centuries were driven out into the new Israel. (At the end of the conflict more than 10 000 Jews had been forced to evacuate from Arab held areas.. Col. el-Tell... he is quoted as saying the systematic demolition inflicted merciless terror in the hearts of the Jews, killing both fighters and civilians... For the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter. Not a single building remains intact. This makes the Jews' return here impossible.↑ Benjamin Pogrund, "Drawing Fire: Investigating the Accusations of Apartheid in Israel," (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), p. 257. ↑ "This has nothing to do with Sheikh Jarrah." ToI, May 12, 2021. It's about Hamas seeing a chance to seize the narrative and increase its own influence and control over Palestinians in Jerusalem. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/this-has-nothing-to-do-with-sheikh-jarrah/ ↑ 162.0 162.1 Facebook's policy inconsistency puts Israelis at risk
According to her social media posts, Mughrabi is El Kurd’s “role model.” A recently posted photo by Palestinian political party Fatah also featured El Kurd with her Dalal Mughbrai phone cover, taking a selfie. The caption praised both El Kurd and Mughrabi explicitly. Yet when this post was reported, Facebook first refused to remove it, and only after several days was it finally taken down, with no additional explanation or update provided. Muna El Kurd, the Sheikh Jarrah activist who’s made international headlines with her brother, had at least five posts removed within the span of two weeks, according to updates received from Facebook. One of El Kurd’s removed posts featured a picture of Hitler, and at least four of her posts featured the glorification of Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the death of 38 Israelis, including 13 children, in the Coastal Road massacre.↑ Mohammed el-Kurd becomes the Palestine Correspondent for The Nation, Jerusalem Post Staff, September 17, 2021 ↑ 164.0 164.1 Palestinian Arab ‘Poster Boy’ Mohammed El-Kurd’s Jew Hatred Comes to the Fore, IC, Jul 4, 2021. [5] Mohammed El-Kurd recently praised Black Panther leader and Jew-hater Kwame Ture, before retweeting a video of him voicing that ... Like his hero, El-Kurd certainly loves a Holocaust comparison... Except when applied to a real genocidal organization...
Meanwhile, in order not to be left behind, twin Muna has been discovered to be a bit of a Hitler fan herself: [Muna Nabeel Elkurd posted the image from
'The Hitler Gang,' on 12 December 2018]↑ Jerusalem Arab activist’s role model is terrorist murderer of 37, Nan Jacques Zilberdik, PMW, Jun 8, 2021. Activist's phone is decorated with an image of terrorist Dalal Mughrabi who led the murder of 37, 12 of them children. Fatah: "May you live as a rebel defending our Jerusalem, like your role model Dalal Mughrabi." ↑ 166.0 166.1 Mohammed El-Kurd - Canary Mission “‘Jerusalem on tipping ! Jerusalemites and ready to explode at any moment !’ hopefully a third intifada.” Mohammed El-Kurd, Twitter, Oct 23 2014
"... a cop is a cop nowhere [sic] in the world and a cop is an extension of these colonial systems, is an extension of capitalism, is an extension of white supremacy in a lot of ways.”
Mohammed El-Kurd, YouTube, May 19, 2021↑ CAMERA on Campus (@CAMERAonCampus) Tweeted (Oct 7, 2021): El-Kurd who glorified terrorists as martyrs and celebrated the murder of civilians will serve on a panel with an elected member of Congress. Let that sink in.↑ Jonathan Michanie & Zac Schildcrout, "The media's dangerous embrace of Mohammed el-Kurd", Washington Examiner, October 6, 2021. El Kurd has glorified the Intifada, has supported terrorism and ethnic cleansing, and believes all Israelis are terrorists - why is his dangerous and hateful rhetoric being elevated?↑ Akiva Van Koningsveld, The Financial Times’ Next-generation Palestinian Activist: ‘Israel is a Child Killing Entity’, HR, July 15, 2021 ... The piece mainly focuses on Mohammed el-Kurd, a writer who has denounced Jewish Israelis who are seeking to reclaim ownership of properties in the eastern part of Jerusalem that were confiscated from them or their families between 1948 and 1967 when Jordan occupied the West Bank, including the holy city.
El-Kurd and his sister Muna live in one of these properties in the neighborhood of Shimon Hatzaddik/Sheikh Jarrah, and both were recently arrested for participating in violent protests essentially calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the area. That, in and of itself, is revealing — and, indeed, el-Kurd is seemingly an antisemite who in reality works to preclude the possibility of enhanced coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians...
Furthermore, while El-Kurd’s claim to fame is that he “reports” on happenings in Jerusalem, he often simply disseminates lies. On May 10, for instance, El-Kurd posted a video to Twitter that he claimed proved Israelis were “readying themselves” to “invade” the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
But the clip actually showed Jews praying at the Western Wall.
El-Kurd also spread a fake story about a stabbing attack by “settlers.”↑ How the UN Stole Jewish Homes in Occupied Jerusalem and Set Off the Latest Conflict D Greenfield, May 23, 2021. When AOC, Warren, Sanders, Tlaib, Omar, the UN, and the Biden administration treat the occupiers of Sheikh Jarrah as the rightful owners, they’re defending ethnic cleansing.
And it should be called what it is.
The fundamental issue at stake in Shimon HaTzadik and Sheikh Jarrah are crystal clear. Unlike some parts of Israel where territory changed hands in more complex ways, we know exactly what happened and why it happened. And those simple facts tell a story of the UNRWA’stole complicity in the ethnic cleansing of Jews, not just today when it serves as a storehouse for Hamas missiles and an employment agency for Hamas propagandists, but back in the 50s.
Jews were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem after an invasion and occupation. The United Nations, through UNRWA, violated international law by taking part in population transfer by an occupying power which had expelled the indigenous population. This is the charge that the UN and the anti-Israel politicians and media have repeatedly lobbed at Israel.
And they’re the ones guilty of it.
Their Sheikh Jarrah argument is that ethnic cleansing and occupation are moral and legal when Arab Muslim armies do it. It’s that Arab Muslim squatters who moved into Jewish homes in 1956 had gained an immutable moral right to live in them by 1967 that outweighed those of the Jewish trusts which had owned them since the 19th century. There’s no better way to show the hypocritical double standards of an anti-Israel movement that cries about occupation, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid while practicing those very things.
AOC, Sanders, Warren, the UN, the Quarter, the EU, and the Biden administration are demanding that the Arab Muslim occupation of Jerusalem continue. They are ordering a free country to overturn the legal ruling of a court in case that goes back to the 1970s because they believe that Arab Muslim occupiers have a right to live in Jerusalem… and Jews don’t.
That’s what this was about in 1948. That’s still what it’s about in 2021.
The occupiers cry about the “occupation” and the ethnic cleansers cry about “ethnic cleansing” as they fight to bring back the state of apartheid that drove the Jews out of Jerusalem.
↑ A Tense Night in Jerusalem. 64 Were Injured in Clashes Between the Police and Rioters in the Nablus Gate. May 9, 2021. https://m.maariv.co.il/amp/news/military/Article-839071 ↑ 'Who Is Behind the Disturbances in Jerusalem?' Pinhas Inbari, JCPA, May 11, 2021. https://jcpa.org/who-is-behind-the-disturbances-in-jerusalem/ ↑ Bitzaron, Volumes 55-56. pp. 77-78, 1966. Chaviv Canaan, "The Mufti's War on the Jews"... For a week before the day of the eruption, photographs of Omar Mosque with a Zionist flag on its turret. It was a fake photomontage he needed to prove to the ignorant masses that Haj Amin's struggle against the Jews' attempts to take over the mosque was right... http://nextweb.lib.ohio-state.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/99995-files/99995081/99995081-266/99995081-266.pdf ↑ Dr. Einat Wilf (@EinatWilf) Tweeted: Palestinians have used the libel of 'Al-Aqsa in danger' since the time of Haj Amin al-Husseini, who recognised the libel's power to turn a local conflict into a regional, religious, and even global one. Read this historical context by Shany Mor @ShMMor: https://t.co/oazvASlyHT May 17, 2021 ↑ MK Odeh: Hope for the Intifada. In a Facebook post, the chairman of the joint list wrote that he hoped that the struggle in Jerusalem would lead to an acute escalation. Dalit Halevi - Channel 7. April 26, 2021. https://www.inn.co.il/news/490645 ↑ Ayman Odeh's outrageous interview with a Hezbollah supporter channel. While the State of Israel is facing a riot, there are those who refuel the TV stations and social networks. Watch Ayman Odeh interview with Al-Mayadeen TV, known as a Hezbollah supporter. Achikam Himelfarb. 11 Sivan 5781 (22 May 2021). Channel 20 On May 10, 2121, about a week and a half ago, MK Ayman Odeh, chairman of the 'joint list,' was interviewed in Al-Mayadeen channel. This channel, which is a mouthpiece for Hezbollah and the Iranian regime... Odeh justified the Arab riots ... ↑ Mansour Abbas attended a conference of the 'northern branch of Islamic Movement' last night Ch. 20, May 23, 2021. Hillel Bitton Rosen, Yonatan Yifrach. Twelfth of Sivan 5781 (May 23, 2021). The chairman of 'RA'AM' Mansour Abbas, who for many in Israeli politics is considered a legitimate partner, last night attended a conference of the radical 'northern branch of Islamic Movement'. The United Arab List, led by Mansour Abbas, visited the Solidarity Tent last night (Saturday) with Sheikh Kamal Khatib, which was established in the village of Qana after his arrest. Sheikh Khatib, who serves as deputy chairman of the northern faction of the Islamic Movement, led the incitement and riots on the Temple Mount. And called security forces "Nazis." In the full sermon delivered by the Sheikh who supports terrorism...: "You are today the honor not only of the Palestinian people and not only the Arabs, you are the honor of the entire Islamic nation, ... I am sure that each of you ... can die a Shahid [martyr]..." ↑ Balloon Terrorism Returns: Six fires broke out in the Gaza Strip Walla, May 6, 2021. Firefighters took control of the fires that broke out at several points in the Eshkol Regional Council area. Troops in the area were preparing for the return of targeted arson attacks from the Gaza Strip. ↑ Balloon Terrorism: 39 fires broke out this morning in the enveloping localities News 13, May 9, 2021. Balloon Terrorism: At least 39 fires have erupted since Sunday morning in the Gaza Envelope as a result of incendiary balloons launched into the area. ↑ 'The link between Iran and the missile arsenals in Gaza. The Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip have boasted for a decade of Tehran’s pivotal role in providing them with weapons, training and other support.' JNS, May 13, 2021. https://www.jns.org/the-link-between-iran-and-the-missile-arsenals-in-gaza/ ↑ Tim Marshall: "Iran’s influence is on full display in Gaza," May 13, 2021. https://reaction.life/irans-influence-is-on-full-display-in-gaza/. As the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) official Ramez al-Halabi said on Iraqi TV this week, "We buy our weapons with Iranian money. An important part of our activity is under the supervision of Iranian experts… I am proud to say that the rockets that are used to pound Tel Aviv have an Iranian signature on them."...↑ Khaled Abu Toameh, "The Role of Iran's Palestinian Mercenaries," Gatestone Inst., October 28, 2021. Hamas and PIJ, it seems, want to continue receiving funds and weapons from Iran, but they do not want to be seen by Arabs and Muslims as mercenaries serving Iran's interests in the Middle East.
Hamas and PIJ want the Palestinians and the rest of the Arabs and Muslims to believe that their only goal is to "liberate all of Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea" -- a euphemism for driving the Jews out of Israel and replacing it with an Islamist state.
That is most likely why both Palestinian terror groups were quick to issue statements denying that their main goal is to defend Iran and serve its interests in the Middle East.
"Take your armies and go with them back to Iran, where you can fight your battles away from the peoples you occupy to achieve your agendas," said Sami Gemayel, head of the Lebanese Kataeb Party. He also criticized the failure of Lebanese leaders to respond to the admission that Hezbollah was created to serve Iran, and not Lebanon: "Are you ready now to face the truth?"
The Iranian commander's [Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid's] statements coincide with the Biden administration's delusional commitment to the fiction that the US will somehow convince Iran to abandon its plans to acquire nuclear weapons.
While the Biden administration is talking about "diplomacy" as the best way to rein in Iran's nuclear program, the mullahs are preparing for war and advancing their scheme to annihilate Israel and, with the help of their six "armies," occupy still more Arab countries.↑ Living under fire in Israel, when the rocket shelter becomes your home. With more than a week of most intensive bombardment ever from Gaza and IDF saying it will continue to attack until Palestinian terror groups wave the white flag, Ashkelon residents now only want respite and peace. Reuters|Published: 05.19.21. "if 120 rockets, or over 50-60 rockets are fired into those populated areas, there is still a percentage of rockets that will make their way through." Stories and faces behind the numbers: Israel's victims of Gaza rocket fire. ↑ https://13news.co.il/item/news/politics/security/operation-wall-guard-1251169/ ↑ Liveblog: At Least 3000 Gaza Rockets Fired At Israel Since Monday - I24news. May 16, 2021. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/1621169856-liveblog-at-least-3000-gaza-rockets-fired-at-israel-since-monday ↑ What do we know about the number of rockets fired at Israel? By Seth J. Frantzman May 17, 2021 22:01. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/what-do-we-know-about-the-number-of-rockets-fired-at-israel-668339 ↑ https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/SyoxZu5uu ↑ 188.0 188.1 https://norwaytoday.info/news/eu-leaders-condemn-hamas-attacks/ ↑ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hamas-s-rockets-are-killing-palestinians-too ↑ 190.0 190.1 https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/1621075141-report-uae-demands-hamas-stop-rockets-attacks-or-face-halt-in-investments ↑ IDF tweeted: Put yourself in this father's shoes. You're driving with your newborn baby. Suddenly, you find yourself under rocket fire. As rockets explode, your only thought is: keep your baby safe. The IDF will continue to fight against Hamas to protect Israeli civilians. May 15, 2021 ↑ 'Gantz addresses Gaza residents: "Hamas is sacrificing you because of their personal needs"'. Defense Minister Bnei Gantz addressed a message translated into Arabic to Gaza residents: "Because of Hamas, you will not celebrate Eid al-Fitr. Hamas started the campaign because of political motives - and not because of the freedom of the Temple Mount." He added that "Hamas leaders are responsible for the fact that instead of preparing for the holiday you are buried in houses. Unfortunately, they operate from civilian space and therefore the damage will be great and powerful. They sacrifice you because of their personal needs. If Israel sleeps in protected areas - Gaza will burn." Anna Bersky, Maariv, 12/05/2021. https://www.maariv.co.il/breaking-news/Article-840184 ↑ 'European lawmakers: Palestinian terror groups committing 'double war crimes'.' In a letter, they said: “It’s not only that these terrorists started this latest round of confrontation. Hamas and Islamic Jihad commit the double war crime of murdering Israeli civilians while using their own population as human shields.” JNS, May 13, 2021. https://www.jns.org/european-lawmakers-palestinian-terror-groups-committing-double-war-crimes/ ↑ Experts Call on Canada to Sanction Military Exploits of ‘Human Shields’. May 17, 2021. By Andrew Chen. Experts are calling on Canada lawmakers to pass laws aimed at sanctioning the use of “human shields,” amid reports of terrorist group Hamas is using civilians as a cover for military assets in its recent crossfire with Israel. https://m.theepochtimes.com/experts-call-on-canada-to-sanction-military-exploits-of-human-shields_3819158.html ↑ Opinion: You should be concerned about Hamas' attacks on Israel. Monday, May 17, 2021. By Anat Sultan-Dadon. Over the last 5 days, Hamas terrorists have been constantly firing rockets at the state of Israel from the Gaza strip, targeting our civilian populations. They are not only deliberately targeting civilians; they are doing so intentionally from within their own civilian populations, using them as human shields, which constitutes a double war crime. https://www.ajc.com/opinion/opinion-you-should-be-concerned-about-hamas-attacks-on-israel/M7GO7M6TNZCW5CKVQF4WDTNTGU/ ↑ https://www.maariv.co.il/breaking-news/Article-840282 ↑ 'Thousands of Palestinians fled their homes so as not to serve as human shields for ...' Dr. Amir Bohbot, Hamal, May 17, 2021. Thousands of Palestinians fled their homes so as not to serve as human shields for terrorist operatives In one case Palestinian children were killed and Hamas claimed it was an attack by the Air Force while the defense establishment claimed that a human rights organization report said it was a rocket fall. https://www.hamal.co.il/post/-M_uim8tFYC0MgD04LRQ ↑ Thousands of targets built by Hamas and Islamic Jihad were dug under mosques, schools, kindergartens, community centers and more to prevent the IDF from attacking them. Amazing how sensitive sitemap overlaps destination map | Dr. Amir Bohbot, May 18, 2021 https://www.hamal.co.il/post/-Ma0HViXtMA_g_e8aCvD ↑ These terror groups are more than willing to use their own people as human shields for the sake of vilifying Israel. And unfortunately, the most radical members of Congress and the American mainstream media have bought this narrative hook, line, and sinker...
- Burchett on House floor: Some elected officials, media excusing terrorism against Israel, May 18, 2021.
- Rep. Tim Burchett @RepTimBurchett: Hamas and PIJ use Palestinians as human shields for the sake of vilifying Israel. The members of Congress and media blaming Israel alone for the recent violence are being nothing more than useful idiots and publicity tools for two terrorist organizations. May 18, 2021
↑ Watch: Bennett (to) CNN interviewer: "We will not be bound by terror" ICE, May 13, 2021. Bennett straight up replied firmly: "Absolutely not. Maybe you're suggesting we just sit back, let them launch rockets at us and not return fire because they are hiding their rockets behind women and children? Would you do that, Becky?" Replied. He turned to Anderson and asked if she would have thought so if her house had been bombarded with rockets: "If your family was under fire, would you suggest that your government not protect you because they are hiding the weapons and rockets behind civilians?" ↑ Magellan fighters attacked a Hamas anti-tank launcher located in a residential building, News 1, May 13, 2021. Fragmentation of anti-tank launchers continues: Magellan fighters attacked an anti-tank launcher of the Hamas terrorist organization located in a high-rise residential building in the southern Gaza Strip. The IDF notes that the terrorist organization Hamas is deliberately placing its military assets in the heart of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. ↑ A message to the residents of the Gaza Strip: "Hamas has arranged a holiday for you without electricity and water". Uri Marom, Mivzak Live, 14 May 2021. General Rassan Aliyan told the residents of the Gaza Strip: "Residents of Gaza, in recent days and especially tonight, you have witnessed the IDF resolutely protecting the citizens of Israel, while Hamas continues to bring destruction and destruction upon you. The terrorist organization continues to launch rockets from civilian structures and uses you as a human shield - in your children, in your women, in innocent people who have been killed and injured.." ↑ Hamas' Use of human shields, explained. https://youtu.be/_IWrLkTYRO0 ↑ Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar admits that the terrorist group [6] ↑ Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted: Plain and simple: Sinwar the leader of Hamas in Gaza admits in his own words that they use civilian areas for terrorist purposes Next you blame Israel for killing innocent civilians understand that Hamas are using their people as human shields https://t.co/Hn2ioFoB25 Junne 5, 2021 ↑ Failed Hamas rockets killed Gaza civilians, says security official. JNS, May 13, 2021. https://www.jns.org/failed-hamas-rockets-killed-gaza-civilians-israeli-security-official-says/ ↑ Bassem Eid (@eid_bassem) Tweeted: 1 in 7 rockets that Hamas fires lands in Gaza. In total 439 rockets have been misfired at Israel, killing at least 20 Palestinians in Gaza. Hamas must be held responsible for these murders. #StopHamas https://t.co/VcjDS3t6DG May 16, 2021 ↑ A tunnel under a school, and senior houses in Hamas: targets bombed in the Gaza Strip A. Bohbot, Walla, May 13, 2021. ↑ Egyptian-American Political Analyst Magdi Khalil: Hamas Uses Gaza Civilians As Human Shields; Recent Fighting Was Intended To Help Iran In Nuclear Negotiations, Memri, June 8, 2021. Yahya Sinwar admitted that [Hamas] was transferring its military bases away from residential areas and high-rises. He admitted that all their military bases are located in high-rises. No one believes him that they are going to move them. In other words, they sacrifice the civilians in Gaza, and they target every Israeli civilian, as well as the airport. If Hamas would have hit a civilian airplane with civilian passengers on it, this would be a cause for celebration for Hamas. ↑ Colonel Richard Kemp: 'Israel: The World's Most Moral Army'. PragerU. Dec 7, 2015 — Is the Israeli military a paragon of morality and wartime ethics? .. https://www.prageru.com/video/israel-the-worlds-most-moral-army/ ↑ How Israel moves Gazan civilians out of the way of attacks on Hamas. ILH staff, May 14, 2021.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/05/14/how-israel-keeps-innocent-gazans-safe-from-iaf-airstrikes/↑ Shirel Laloom: "There are children here, we will not go for it": the shelling that the IDF canceled. Documentation. Channel 20, May 16, 2021. The IDF released documentation of an attack that was canceled at the last minute due to the presence of children at the scene. An amazing video released by the IDF today shows a planned attack in Gaza being stopped by soldiers noticing Gazan children.. '"This Is morality" . "Check, maybe there are children": This is how the IDF refrained from operating in Gaza. Watch.' Kikar-HaShabbat, by B. Nisani, May 16, 2021. In a new documentation revealed by the Air Force, the soldiers in the "control room" are seen considering attacking a terrorist target in Gaza, but refraining - for fear that children will be harmed; Defense Minister Ganz praised them - Watch (Defense). https://www.kikar.co.il/392065.html . Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted: IDF pilots call off a strike because children were there. "There are probably children here, we are stopping everything!" @IDF https://t.co/zCIDryMTso May 16, 2021. ↑ ‘Israel Is Using Missiles to Protect Its People, Hamas Is Using Its People to Protect Its Rockets,’ Says Palestinian Human Rights Activist. Algemeiner, Sharon Wrobel, May 26, 2021. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/05/26/israel-is-using-missiles-to-protect-its-people-hamas-is-using-its-people-to-protect-its-rockets-says-palestinian-human-rights-activist/ ↑ NPR, May 21, 2021 ↑ יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted: "Bro, take care of yourself and your child, we are during a fight, so please be safe". Listen to the Israeli Security Agency warn a Palestinian farmer from being in a dangerous area of the Gaza-Israel border. https://t.co/cLvKT4mdv4 May 23, 2021 ↑ Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) Tweeted: You will NEVER see this on the news. Listen to this conversation between an Israeli officer who called a Gaza resident to warn him from a coming airstrike near his area. Israel does far and beyond to avoid civilian casualties. Tell the world! https://t.co/akNW99bJFC May 23, 2021 ↑ anti-Israel biased Matthias Schmale ↑ UNRWA head forced to flee Gaza after Hamas labels his position 'biased in favor of occupation' i24NEWS, June 02, 2021 ↑ 'Shocking' Phone Call Between IDF and Gazan Reveals 'Entire Conflict in a Nutshell'. Leah Barkoukis | @LeahBarkoukis | May 19, 2021 A short but “shocking” phone call between the Israeli Defense Forces and a Palestinian in Gaza reveals “the entire conflict in a nutshell,” Townhall, May 19, 2021. ↑ "Social Media Video Shows Gaza Palestinian Telling IDF Soldier ‘If the Children Need to Die, Then They’ll Die’". Algemeiner.com. May 19, 2021. Sky News Arabic video showing a conversation between a Gaza Palestinian and an IDF soldier. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/05/19/social-media-video-shows-gaza-palestinian-telling-idf-soldier-if-the-children-need-to-die-then-theyll-die/ ↑ "Social Media Video Shows Gaza Palestinian Telling IDF Soldier ‘If the Children Need to Die, Then They’ll Die’". Algemeiner.com. May 19, 2021. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/05/19/social-media-video-shows-gaza-palestinian-telling-idf-soldier-if-the-children-need-to-die-then-theyll-die/ ↑ Hank Berrien, "Shock Video: IDF Warns Gazan Man To Evacuate Children Before Bombing. He Responds: ‘If The Children Need To Die Then They’ll Die’". May 19, 2021. DailyWire.com Before strikes on buildings in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces call residents of those buildings to give them a chance to evacuate and preserve their lives. A new video shows the IDF pleading with a Gazan man on the other end of the line to evacuate a targeted building, saying he had a responsibility for children’s lives. The man responded, "If the children need to die then they’ll die.” In the video, aired by Sky News (below), the Gazan man initially tries to stall for time, saying, “I can’t get all of the people out; I need at least two hours to get them out.” https://www.dailywire.com/news/shock-video-idf-warns-gazan-man-to-evacuate-children-before-bombing-he-responds-if-the-children-need-to-die-then-theyll-die ↑ יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted:
Through a 30 second conversation between the IDF and a Palestinian in #Gaza you can understand who is choosing life and who is choosing death. A shocking phone call, must watch: https://t.co/4soDBV2AVE May 19, 2021↑ 'IRGC General Asghar Emami: Iran Does Not Need To Send Missiles Or Planes To Attack Israel, Through The Resistance Axis We Can Plough Israeli Cities With Mortars; When We Want American Concessions, We Can Tighten Our Grip Around Israel's Throat.' Source: Noor TV (Iran). https://www.memri.org/tv/irgc-general-asghar-emami-iran-exert-concessions-america-placing-israel-under-siege-resistance-axis-shells-ships-hit-from-sea Memri, May 06, 2021 ↑ MK Avi Dichter on the recent violent incidents in the cities involved: "I do not remember the last time one of the rioters was prosecuted on nationalist grounds, it is time to realize it. The absolute and overwhelming majority of rioters throughout the length and breadth of Israel is Arab, agitated, in part a very violent one. " May 16, 2021 ↑ Lynch cases and a shooting incident carried out by Arabs on Jews during the "Guardian of the Walls" were solved. Lilach Shovaldniel Seriotti, Israel Hayom, June 10, 2021. Two residents of Wadi Ara are accused of carrying out a shooting attack, from which a civilian escaped unharmed. Two residents of Kafr Qara were charged with aggravated assault. A resident of Acre participated in riots in the city and caused much destruction... it was determined that the three offenses were committed on racial grounds. ↑ An Arab terrorist attacked a father and son: "You are Jews, your place is not here." Yonatan Yifrach, Ch 20, June 6, 2021.
An Arab terrorist riding a motorcycle attacked a father and son on the Jaffa promenade, hit the father with a helmet and his friends sprayed them with pepper spray. Among other things, the assailant called out to his son, "You are Jews, your place is not here." Although the details of the attack are in the possession of the police, an indictment has not yet been filed against him, "demanding that the terrorist and his accomplices be prosecuted for a serious assault of a racist motive ...A father and son were attacked on the Jaffa promenade for no reason by an Arab terrorist riding a motorcycle. The biker hit the father with his helmet, and his friends sprayed them and their two dogs with pepper spray. The attacker even shouted racist chants at them. Police arrested the attacking biker thanks to the car camera that recorded the incident, but no indictment has yet been filed against him. The attack took place about three weeks ago, in the midst of Operation Guardian of the Walls. L., about 50 years old, and his son Y., 24 years old, were traveling on the promenade of the city of Jaffa..↑ Mordechai Kedar: "The Jihad Within Israel." JNS, May 13, 2021. When synagogues and religious seminaries are torched, it is a religious war. When Torah scrolls are desecrated, it is a religious war... And it is a religious war when rioters in the Israeli cities of Jerusalem, Lod, Jaffa and Acre, among many other localities, unite around such jihadist slogans as, “Khyber, Khyber, Oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return,” evoking the slaughter of all men of this ancient Jewish community and the enslavement of their women by Islam’s founder. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/05/13/the-jihad-within-israel/. https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-jihad-within-israel/ ↑ "Wife of man stabbed in Lod: Group of Arabs yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ and attacked him." TOI, May 13, 2021. Gil Gabai, the wife of a man who was stabbed in the central of city of Lod this morning, says he was attacked by a group of Arabs who yelled “Allahu Akbar” as they beat and stabbed him.“He went to the car and on his way, a group of Arabs shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and attacked him with stones and rocks,” she tells Army Radio. “One pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed him in the back. He managed to fend him off and escape but another Arab man still tried to grab him.”
“I saw the whole thing from the window of the house. I screamed for them to leave but I was afraid to come down in case something happened to me.”↑ A fifth synagogue was set on fire in Lod; An 8-year-old was injured in the Negev, Kikar haShabat, May 13, 2021. ↑ https://www.inn.co.il/news/492197 ↑ https://www.maariv.co.il/news/israel/Article-839957 ↑ Asaf Golan: "How do we move forward alongside people who have desecrated synagogues?." Israel Hayom, May 13, 2021. https://www.israelhayom.co.il/magazine/hashavua/article/910204/ . Assaf Golan moved to Lod years ago, and was surprised to find hospitable neighbors. He did not imagine that overnight they would threaten his family life, and become ruthless rioters. Now he is afraid of tomorrow, when he will meet them again on the bench in the playground... "I'm not a psychologist. I will never know how to get down to studying the human psyche and I do not pretend to do so. But it is a fact that thousands of people who were seen as friends, as partners in the same city, were discovered within two days as someone reminiscent of active participants in pogroms against Jews. Normative young men, men and women, old men and toddlers, walked around with hateful fire in their eyes and shouted "Itbach al Yahud" or "Khaybar Khaybar al Yehud." ↑ 'The announcer in the nearby village read: "Itbach al Yehud"' 12.05.21. https://www.kikar.co.il/391771.html In Modi'in Illit, they were horrified to hear, during the interceptions and alarms in the area, the proclamation in the nearby village of Ni'lin, inciting its people with shouts against the Jews, combined with rejoicing over the attacks from Gaza. ↑ "The Knocked Knives On My Head": The young man who was lynched recreates the moments of horror. From Abi Giladium Friday, May 14, 2021. https://13news.co.il/item/news/domestic/articles/ltb02-1250934/ ↑ Arab shooting and "police acting disgracefully": Ami Haim, Ch 20, May 14, 2021 Night Summary: Another difficult night passed over the city of Lod last night (Thursday). Many shootings of Arabs in the direction of Jews - when in one of the events a Jew was injured, an attempt to burn a synagogue, Molotov cocktails, firing fireworks and more. ↑ Facing the real cause of the long Arab war C. Glick, Israel Hayom, May 14, 2021.
After 75 years of making excuses and denying the plain fact that antisemitism is the root and the branch of the Arab conflict with Israel, Israelis of all walks of life and across the political spectrum need to accept that it is true.↑ 'Coverage of the events of Arab violence reminds us that something in our media is distorted.' As far as the Israeli press is concerned, if Arabs attack Jews, throw Molotov cocktails, or shout slogans in support of Hamas - it is probably because some Jew did something wrong. Kalman Liebskind, Maariv, Nay 1, 2021. https://m.maariv.co.il/journalists/Article-837391 ↑ Watch | Three Arabs arrested following the publication of web videos with offensive content ... A 40-year-old from Lod was arrested after he said in the video "the way Hitler burned you, they will burn you more" .... HAMAL, May 25, 2021 https://www.hamal.co.il/post/-MaUfHkLxVaV0HrzavP6 ↑ Elad Barzilai, who was injured in a lynching in Acre, opened his eyes and weaned himself The director of the Nahariya Medical Center, Prof. Masad Barhum: "This is a very exciting moment. He has a long way to go but it is certainly possible to express cautious optimism." Ado Ben Porat - Channel 7, 14 Sivan 5781. 25/05/21 ↑ Or Izreali, Sara Haetzni-Cohen: "Today the mixed cities are the most antisemitic cities in the world", Srugim, Feb 20, 22. [7]. Sara Haetzni-Cohen, chairwoman of "My Israel", found herself establishing a Knesset and organizing armed civilians in the city of Lod, at the bloody events last May. In podcast... she talks about the sequence of events ... On the residents. "We arrived in Lod unintentionally," she says. "It is really not my job to recruit gunmen to guard houses in Lod."…
"The biggest slap I got was not from the rioters themselves, there will always be rioters," she claims. "The calamity is, that the same Arab neighbors who stood in their home and directed the ravines for the cars and houses of Jews and marked them, it is 1929 events and it broke deep. The fact that mothers and grandmothers directing the rioters towards the cars - is the disaster, because I believe in shared lives."↑ Tali Libman, "The Haifa municipality has decided to open shelters: a swastika in the Carmelia neighborhood", Haifa Mynet, May 15, 2021. Against the background of Hamas' threats to fire missiles at Haifa, Mayor Einat Klish Rotem does not take risks and is prepared accordingly. In the morning in Wadi Nisnas - distribution of flowers to passers-by...
Meanwhile, in the Carmelia neighborhood of the city, at 33 Hanna Street, unknown individuals drew a swastika on the road and the pair of words in English: FREE PALESTINEYS. Residents of the neighborhood filed a complaint with the police.↑ 'Yusuf Naim, operating room nurse at Hadassah. Declares himself a Palestinian Update Hadassah response.' Rotter, 15.05.21. https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/698354.shtml ↑ Pisgat Ze'ev: swastikas sprayed at the central intersection (leading towards Begin road). Rotter, May 16, 2021. ↑ A swastika and malicious graffiti on the KKL's picnic table in the forest Segev at the Board of Misgav in Galilee. Near the settlements Ya'ad, Atzmon, Sha'ab, Kabul. Rotter news, May 25, 2021. ↑ "Police: Two Israeli-Arabs Behind Arson Attack that Severely Burned 12-Year-Old Boy in Jaffa." by i24 News, May 17, 2021.
Two Arab-Israeli are being accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a home located in the port city of Jaffa, which left severe third-degree burns on a 12-year-old Arab boy. This incident, which shocked the Israeli public, was initially attributed to radical Jews, in the wake of inter-communal violence that has erupted in recent days. The two suspects, who were caught on surveillance cameras before fleeing, were actually targeting a house inhabited by Jews and had hit the “wrong” target. Police arrested one of the suspects and were still pursuing the other.. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/1621231466-police-two-israeli-arabs-behind-arson-attack-that-severely-burned-12-year-old-boy-in-jaffa https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/05/17/police-two-israeli-arabs-behind-arson-attack-that-severely-burned-12-year-old-boy-in-jaffa/↑ 3 arrested over Jaffa home firebombing that seriously hurt boy, 12, YNet, Sep 6, 2021. ↑ 248.0 248.1 (Journalist HakolKalul ptogram) Sivan Cohen Saban, Jun 20, 2021: Meet Ahmad Daoud, 21-year-old manager of the "Old Man and the Sea" restaurant in Jaffa. At the 'Guardian of Walls', he decided he wanted to burn Jews living near the restaurant. So he got out of the "Old Man and the Sea" and threw a Molotov cocktail at a house that looked dark to him and without the lights of Ramadan, only Ahmed did not know that the family he burned the child for was an Arab family whose decorations did not work. The boy was of a family of Arabs whose decorations did not work. ↑ @YosephHaddad) Tweeted: An hour ago, Moshe Nussbaum already published that there are extremist Arabs behind this, but Sami [Abou Shahadeh] will not miss an opportunity to show the world the lie in order to spread more hatred and incite! Instead of condemning the extremist and violent rioters for whom he as a public representative is responsible, he continues to stir and lie !! May 15, 2021 ↑ 'One Huge Embrace of Hyperadvocacy:' On Henriette Chacar, Reuters Was Warned, CAMERA, Feb 12, 2023..
CAMERA warned Reuters before Henriette Chacar started writing for the news agency.↑ Rachel O'Donoghue, REVEALED: Reuters Journalist Rebuked by Editor After Sending ‘Outrageous’ Email About Israel, Honest Reporting, February 9, 2023. ↑ Prime Minister: "Participates in the grief of the family of the late Yigal Yehoshua who was murdered in a lynching in Lod - we will reckon with the murderers". News 0404, 17/05/2021. [8]. The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Monday) shared the grief of the family of the late Yigal Yehoshua, who was murdered by Arab terrorists in a lynching in Lod, and promised that none of the participants in the lynching would escape punishment. Prime Minister Netanyahu: "I share the grief of the family of the late Yigal Yehoshua, who was murdered in a lynching carried out by Arab rioters in Lod... May the memory of Yigal be blessed and be kept in our hearts forever." ↑ Seven Arabs indicted for murder, terrorism in May killing of Jewish Lod man, TOI Staff, 24 June 2021. Three also indicted for beating Jewish man in Acre.
5 defendants are residents of the city, 2 are West Bank Palestinians who were illegally in country; prosecutors say they aimed to ‘instill fear.’
[Yigal Yehoshua, 56, died after being struck in the head with a brick while driving home in Lod.]
Murder, terrorism, and racism charges were filed Thursday against seven men accused of stoning Yigal Yehoshua to death in the central Israeli city of Lod last month, during widespread clashes between Jews Arabs in the country. Five of those indicted at the Central District Court are Arab Israelis and the other two are Palestinians who were illegally staying in Israel at the time. They are Lod residents Yusef al-Qadhayim, 21, Walid al-Qadhayim, 25, Karim Bahlul, 18, Iyad Marahla, 20, Haled Hassouna, 51, and West Bank residents Ahad Danun, 25, and Kamel Deif Alla, 21.
They were charged with murder under aggravated circumstances in a collaborated act of terror, collaborating to throw stones in an act of terror against a vehicle, and deliberately damaging a vehicle for racist motives. In addition, six were charged with collaborating to obstruct justice for trying, among other acts, to erase footage of the incident caught on security cameras.
Prosecutors said the defendants acted "out of a nationalist-ideological motives and with the aim of instilling fear and panic in the public and when there was real risk of serious injury to a person’s body." They asked that the defendants be held until the end of proceedings. The deadly attack that killed Yehoshua, a 56-year-old resident of Lod, occurred amid heavy rioting throughout the country that saw multiple cases of assault against Jewish Israelis by Arab Israelis and vice versa.
According to the indictment, on May 11 Arab youths arrived at an industrial area in the north of Lod, where they lit fires and blocked roads causing traffic to slow down. When they identified the occupants of passing cars as Jewish they hurled stones at them, prosecutors said. The defendants attacked Yehoshua’s car and one stone came through the window, hitting him in the head and causing him serious injury. Yehoshua parked his car for a few moments near the site of the attack. He then drove the rest of the way to the parking lot beneath his home, where he crashed his car into another vehicle while trying to park, apparently because of his injuries. He was rushed to the hospital and died six days later. Some of the defendants also stoned Jewish cars two days after the incident as unrest in the city continued, prosecutors said. Nearly all of the defendants confessed to the crimes during questioning by the Shin Bet security agency, and played out the sequence of events at the scene, Haaretz reported. They were identified by security cameras in the area, while a location system in Yehoshua’s car provided accurate information as to the time and place of the incident...
The families of some of the defendants claim the confessions came after hours of interrogation during which the suspects were tied to their chairs, and that they were not involved in the killing, the report said. Earlier this week police revealed that eight people had been arrested in connection with Yehoshua’s death. The suspects were arrested over the past several weeks in a joint operation by the Shin Bet and Israel Police, according to a statement from the two organizations at the time. The eighth man, Muhammad Hassouna, 33, was not charged on Thursday.
Video footage distributed by the Israel Police (above) showed the attack as it unfolded, with Yehoshua’s car slowing down because of the flaming roadblocks, then being hit by rocks and bricks. He could then be seen driving away, pulling into his parking lot and hitting the parked car. Additional footage showed some of the suspects apparently attempting to erase the security camera recordings from that night. Some of Yehoshua’s organs were later used in life-saving transplants. His heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys were all donated to patients in need. One of his kidneys went to an Arab Israeli woman, Randa Aweis, a 58-year-old Christian from Jerusalem. Thursday also saw prosecutors file indictments against three suspects accused of attacking Mor Janashvili and causing him serious injuries during rioting in the northern city of Acre, also on May 12.
Mor Janashvili in hospital, soon after he was attacked (courtesy of Mor Janashvili)
Lacusi Abbas was charged with attempted murder in an act of terror, terrorism by stoning a vehicle, intentionally damaging a vehicle for racist motives, and rioting. Adam Bashir was indicted for intentionally causing grievous bodily harm in an act of terror and rioting. Bilal Hiluani was charged with rioting. According to the incitement, masked youths set up roadblocks in the city and threw stones at a police water cannon vehicle that arrived to disperse them. As Janashvili drove past they hurled stones at his vehicle, hitting it and smashing the windshield. Janashvili lost control and crashed into a wall, also hitting an Arab youth who was standing there. Hiluani spurred on the mob by shouting to them that the Arab youth who was hit by the car had died, although in fact he was alive and was able to stand up with the assistance of others, prosecutors say. Janashvili exited the vehicle but before he could escape was beaten by the mob. The attackers only stopped when a local sheikh arrived and told them to stop. He was saved by an Arab nurse who was at the scene. The two later had an emotional reunion in the hospital. Janashvili’s car was set alight and destroyed.
Last month saw massive riots break out in many so-called mixed Israeli cities, home to large numbers of both Arabs and Jews, during an 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.↑ 'The victims of the Arab riots will be recognized as victims of terrorism.'
Yigal Yehoshua .. was murdered by Arab rioters who carried out a brutal lynching in Lod. Hillel Bitton Rosen, Yonatan Yifrach, Ch. 20. 9 Sivan 5781 (May 20, 2021).↑ June 20, 2021 Yoav Zeitun (@yoavzitun) Tweeted:: GSS: Deciphering the murder of the late Yigal Yehoshua in Lod - 6 Arabs from Lod and 2 Palestinians from Judea and Samaria set up checkpoints to stone Jews' vehicles; they identified Yehoshua as a Jew and stoned him with stones and at close range. ↑ Set up roadblocks to locate Jews - and throw stones: Decipher the murder of Yigal Yehoshua in Lod, Eli Sinyor, Ynet, June 20, 2021. The group decided to harm Jews for nationalist motives, according to police. For this purpose, they erected makeshift checkpoints of stones and garbage cans on Locksmith Street in Lod, with the aim that Jews' vehicles would slow down, and then they would be able to stone them... Suspects: Muhammad Hassona (33), Khaled Hassona (51), Karim Bahlul (20), Yosef Al-Qaeda (21), Walid Al-Qaeda (25), Iyad Marahla (20)... ↑ Arab man charged with attempted murder over Acre stoning, J.A. Gross and TOI Staff, TOI, June 21, 2021. Habib Abu Habib, 41, accused of throwing a rock at Mordechai Katz's head from close range on May 12; in separate case, terror suspect arrested south of Haifa. ↑ Aviad Glickman, Maor Tzur, 7 Arabs accused of murdering Yigal Yehoshua: "Act for racist motives", News 13, June 24, 2021. An indictment has been filed against those involved for an act of terrorism, obstruction of justice and illegal stay in Israel. In addition, two of them even threw stones at Jewish vehicles two days after the incident. "Throwing stones for being a Jew"↑ Hanan Amiur @hananamiur Tweeted (May 15, 2021): Note the main picture in Nahum Barnea's column and the contemptuous editorial decision of Yedioth Ahronoth. In the big picture: An Arab who was suspected in Bat Yam of ramming attack, suffered some beatings that were stopped fairly immediately and the next morning his condition was defined by the director of the hospital "relaxed".
In the small (size): a Jew who went out to Acre to take care of his Arab students, underwent a barbaric lynching and is in a critical condition until now.↑ Kann News @kann_news Tweeted (May 12, 2021): A resident who was at the scene: "He tried to run over us, such things can not happen. He entered the promenade of an Arab car, he gave gas and started running over Jews. Then he got out of the car and tried to hit people." @daniel_elazar
[תושב שהיה במקום: "הוא ניסה לדרוס אותנו, דברים כאלה לא יכולים לקרות. נכנס לטיילת רכב ערבי, הוא נתן גז והתחיל לדרוס יהודים. אחר כך הוא יצא מהמכונית וניסה להרביץ לאנשים" ]↑ (@YinonMagal) Tweeted [May 17, 2021]: A summary so far of the riots of Israeli Arabs: Synagogues burned - 10. Mosques burned - 0. Synagogues where stones and molotov cocktails were prepared - 0. Mosques in which stones and molotov cocktails were prepared - 28 (without the Temple Mount). Mosques from which rioting guidance were carried out - 22. Synagogues from which such guidance was carried out- 0. Jewish houses burned down - 112. Arab houses burned - 1 (Arabs burned it). [9] Jewish houses looted - 386. Arab houses were looted - 0. Jewish houses damaged - 673. Arab houses damaged - 13. Jews' cars burned - 849. Arab cars burned - 13. Extension of detention for armed Jews was carried out. No detention was extended to Arabs who used weapons (no arrests were made at all). [10] ↑ 'Watch: Channel 13 commentator exposes the Arab Penalist's dangerous Fake News.' ICE, May 18, 2021. "I'm sorry to talk about it when he's not already in the studio he managed to escape, no mosque in Lod burned. He promised to bring a video and he has not brought until now. If you see a video like this, we promise to broadcast and talk about it from every possible angle, I know there was no such thing and it's a dangerous Fake News. Even the police did not know about such an arson, because such a thing burns up the area." https://www.ice.co.il/social/news/article/820275 ↑ Hero of Israel, loss to the state ": The scientist who was killed in the riots in Acre Ynet, June 6, 2021.
A second victim of riots in the cities involved: Three weeks after he was fatally wounded in a hotel arson, a former Israel Security Award winner, Avi Har Even, former head of the Space Agency, died of his wounds.↑ Lior El-Chai, "Israeli Arab indicted on terror charges over May domestic riots", Sep 5, 2021. Hassan Idd from Acre is charged with setting fire to the Efendi Hotel during violence in mixed cities, triggered by clashes on Temple Mount and cross border fighting with Hamas; prosecution claims crime was racially motivated, targeting a Jewish business.
Hassan Idd, 27, from the northern city of Acre is also accused of taking an active part in the racially motivated riots that erupted throughout the city, destroying public property... The attack on the Efendi fatally injured 84-years-old Aby Har Even..
Har Even succumbed to his injuries on June 6, three weeks after the racially motivated attack on the Efendi. So far no one was charged with causing his death.↑ Second victim of the 5781 riots: Avi Har Even passed away, Kikar haShabat, June 6, 2021 ↑ "Murdered my father" - the chilling phone call Ziv Shilon received. Ami Haim, CH20, 14th of Tammuz 5771 (24/06/2021).
Arab terrorists (according to witnesses) - deliberately hit --in front of the eyes of the witnesses-- at Destau Bisset, dropped him on the floor and dragged him to unconsciousness, after several days of war for his life he did not survive.↑ The injured of the muted 'car bomb attack' in Ramla died last night: "Destau's blood is not cheap." Hamal, June 16, 2021. As you may recall, two weeks ago, two young Arabs ran over and hit a 74-year-old Jew with great force ... According to camera footage, after the hit, the rioters tried to run over another couple standing next to him, but were unsuccessful. The wounded man remained bruised on the road. Passers-by called the rescue forces who treated him until the ambulance workers evacuated. And as mentioned, tonight he passed away of his wounds. ↑ Murder of Destau Bisset: The suspect's detention has been extended, Shilo Freid, Makor Rishon, 20 Av 5781. 29/07/2021. The Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion today (Thursday) extended the detention of the Arab boy suspected of the murder of Destau Bisset, 74, in the city of Ramla during the days of Guardian of Walls. The suspect's detention was extended until Monday. Some of Biest's family members came with Adv. Haim Bleicher for a hearing to extend their detention .... The family members of the deceased said earlier this week about the arrest and the proceedings opened against the suspect: "All along we have claimed that our father was murdered on nationalist grounds only because he was Jewish and it turns out we were right. We hope that from now on all the security forces will come together and interrogate the suspect. Locate the other suspects and bring them to justice. It is very hoped that justice will be done soon and that the murderers will rot behind bars for many years to come. "↑ "He is the third victim of the riots done against our people" Miriam Agadi, Srugim News, June 27, 2021. About a week after he died of his wounds after being hit by 2 rioters riding an electric bicycle, a rally was held today (Sunday) in memory of Destau Beast, with the participation of MKs and public figures
At this time, the rally begins in memory of the late Destau Beast at the site of the murder near the mall in Ramla.↑ Arab youth arrested in fatal ramming attack on Ramle resident, Ido Ben Porat, INN, Jul 25, 2021. Destau Bisset was critically injured in the incident which took place on May 30th, during Operation Guardian of the Walls.
The youth, it is suspected, was one of two people riding on electric bicycles who rammed into Bisset on May 30th, knocking him down and then fleeing the scene. Bisset was taken to hospital in critical condition and passed away two weeks later...
Last month, hundreds of people came out to protest on the streets of Ramle, demanding that Bisset’s murderers be apprehended. Bisset’s family have insisted all along that the incident, which occurred during Operation Guardian of the Walls, was nationalistically motivated... Immigration & Absorption Minister Penina Tamano-Shatta. “Destau Bisset was the third person to be murdered in the riots here, and we are going to make sure that his murderers face justice. I have no doubt that here, in the heart of a Jewish city, the police are doing all they can to bring the murderers to justice. Omer Bar Lev will be monitoring the case,” she added.↑ *Pnina Tamano Shata, June 27, 2021: We are on the eve of the 17th of Tammuz - a day in which we mark the Breaking of the Walls of Jerusalem. The late Destau Beast z"l fulfilled his dream about thirty years ago and immigrated to Jerusalem, which he had dreamed of all his life. Established a home and family in Israel for glory ... Destau was a man who contributed greatly to the community in Ramla, and was found his death in a murderous car bomb attack by villain rioters. Tonight we gathered for a memorial rally right where we were murdered with a respectable crowd, elected officials and myself to strengthen the Bisset family, to say out loud that his death is not in vain and that everything must be done to catch the killers .. 'Justice for Destau.' July 3, 2021 The profile of Yalou Avi.. I was looking for one of his tweets, a casual mention or even sharing about the murder of Destau Beast, nothing, quiet, silence. For Mr. Yalou, the social activist, a terrorist attack in which an Israeli citizen of Ethiopian descent was killed by Arab terrorists is not noteworthy. This is what shameless hypocrisy looks like.
- Tal Tutka @talt22 tweeted:
Justice for the late Destau Beast. Shame on the left-leaning Ethiopian activists. Quote Tweet: Ariel Kahana Ariel Kahana @ arik3000 - Jul 28: At this time, dozens of marchers are marching in the center of Ramla in protest of justice for the late Destau Beast. The marchers, family and friends, gathered at the bus stop where the late Destau Beast was run over about 60 days ago. The family members read: "All along they claimed that our father was murdered on nationalist grounds only because he was Jewish and it turns out that we were right." 26 de jul. de 2021: "Why are Ethiopian left-wing activists not condemning the murder of the late Destau Beast by young Arabs? Hypocrisy..."
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↑ Itamar Cohen, Attacked only due to being Jewish: 9 years of actual imprisonment for a Bedouin who took part in a lynching in the 'Guardian of the Walls', All-Word-News, 14th of Tammuz 5782, 13.07.2022. The district court in Bashkortostan accepted the position of the prosecutor's office and sentenced the accused to 9 years in prison, who took part in the lynching of an Israeli citizen on a racial basis and out of a nationalist-ideological motive during the "Guardian of the Walls" operation. The district court ruled that the appropriate punitive response to the severity of the accused's actions, which were carried out out of nationalist, ideological motives and harm to the complainant and his property, just because he is Jewish, should be stricter and express the purpose of the provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Law, which is a significant worsening of the fight against terrorism in all its aspects.
The attorney's office stated: The court accepted the attorney's office's position and sent a clear message expressing its disgust with the defendant's actions and that the punishment of those who commit racially motivated hate crimes and act against civilians and the security forces should be harsher, especially during tense and sensitive periods and certainly during a military operation. The accused, an Israeli citizen, seriously injured the complainant only because he was Jewish and we hope that the sentence will deter those who seek to harm the delicate fabric of relations between the various religions and denominations in the State of Israel. The accused, Abdel Aziz Amrani, 21 years old from the Bedouin diaspora, together with others, participated in the riots on Route 25, at the entrance to the settlement of Segev Shalom, which occurred as part of a wave of disturbances and violent riots throughout the country, on a nationalist-racist background, during Operation "Guardian of the Walls" . The accused, violating conditions of full house arrest, equipped himself with a cloth machine gun.. and gloves, and when he was masked, he took part along with others in disturbances, which included throwing stones at Jewish vehicles, police cars, blocking roads with burning tires and more. On May 11, 2021, out of a nationalist-ideological motive and during his participation in the riots, the accused, along with others, threw stones at the car of a Jewish driver who happened to be at the scene of the riot. The driver, asking to be spared him, shouted that he was an Arab, but the crowd, including the accused, attacked him, took him out of his vehicle and threw him to the ground. He was beaten on the head, back and ribs with their hands, with kicks and clubs, stones were thrown at him, shouting to slaughter him because he was Jewish and his car was smashed by the accused and the crowd. The victim of the offense was rescued from the scene by police forces, who had to use stun grenades, in order to keep the crowd away from him.
As part of the case management, the accused admitted to committing the acts, but denied that it was an act of terrorism. The district court rejected the claim, and convicted the defendant of committing a terrorist act of aggravated malicious wounding according to the Anti-Terrorism Law, the offenses of throwing or shooting a stone or other object at a means of transport, intentionally damaging a racially motivated vehicle, rioting and violating a legal order.↑ 9 years in prison for a Bedouin who participated in a lynching during Operation "Guardian of the Walls", INN, 07/13/22. The Beer Sheva District Court accepted the position of the prosecutor's office and sentenced Abdel Aziz Amrani, a 21-year-old from the Bedouin diaspora, to 9 years in prison, who took part in the lynching of an Israeli citizen during the "Guardian of the Walls" operation. In addition, he was sentenced to a suspended sentence and compensation in the amount of NIS 100,000 to the victim of the crime.
The accused admitted to committing the acts, but denied that it was an act of terrorism. The district court rejected the claim, and convicted the defendant of committing a terrorist act of aggravated malicious wounding according to the Anti-Terrorism Law, the offenses of throwing or shooting a stone or other object at a means of transport, intentionally damaging a racially motivated vehicle, rioting and violating a legal order.↑ Yoav Itiel, "Everything from a nationalist-ideological motive": six Tamra residents were accused of lynching a Jew, Walla!, 06/15/2021. The Haifa District Attorney's Office filed an indictment against the young men for a terrorist act of sabotage, which occurred during the riots at the "Guardian of the Walls". 4 defendants admitted their involvement, and two denied - while incriminating each other. The attacked, who so far has not returned to his job due to the injury: "I am interested in those who saved me, not in the savagery of men." The Haifa District Attorney's Office today (Monday) filed indictments in the city's district court against six Tamra residents, for lynching a Jew who happened to be in the settlements, when they are charged with a terrorist act of aggravated assault. The incident happened on May 12, during the disturbances that broke out throughout the country during the "Guardian of the Walls" operation. The six are also accused of willfully damaging a vehicle for reasons of racism, rioting and attempting to attack a police officer under aggravated circumstances. Four of the accused are 22-year-old Ibrahim Merih, who was arrested the day after the incident; 19-year-old Muhammad Abu al-Hija, who was arrested a week later; 20-year-old Baha Abu al-Hijah, who was arrested after five more days; and 18-year-old Muhammad Abu Rumi, who was arrested ten days ago. The four of them confessed to the actions during the joint investigation of the Shin Bet and the North District District Attorney's Office, and Moriah and Abu Rumi even admitted that they had a nationalist motive. The other defendants are 19-year-old Mustafa Awad and Ahmed Merih, who denied their involvement and even claimed an alibi - but implicated each other in conflicting versions. In addition to this, other people as well as the evidence in the case - incriminated the two. For example, the prosecution claims that Ahmed Merih recorded in a WhatsApp conversation confirms that he will attend the riots that evening and even inquires with his friends which of them knows how to make Molotov cocktails.
"Everything is based on a nationalist-ideological motive," claims attorney Yaniv Zohar, the prosecutor who is simultaneously requesting the extension of the detention of the six, until the end of the legal proceedings against them.↑ Yair Krauss, "May Allah set you free": hundreds of supporters of the Arabs from Tamra who confessed to the lynching, Makor Rishon, Aug 10, 2022. Three Tamra residents confessed to the act of lynching and vandalism for reasons of racism. The publication of their decision to now go into custody from the house arrest where they have been until today, received many encouragements on Facebook. Those convicted of the lynching of a Jew in the city of Tamra and acts of terrorism during the Guardian of the Walls riots in May of last year are receiving enthusiastic support and admiration on social media. In an update post on their legal situation posted by 12 news reporter Furat Nassar on his popular Arabic language Facebook page, over 140 responses of sympathy and support were received and close to two thousand 'likes' for his news about the decision of three young people, residents of Tamra, who confessed to participating in the violent riots in Tamra and committing lynching of Shir Alkalai, to go to prison until the end of the proceedings against them and the sentencing. The many respondents, including the residents of the city of Tamra and the Galilee, blessed those convicted of the crimes, Muhammad Abu Rumi, Muhammad Abu Al Hijah and Baha Abu Al Hijah and wished them that Allah would free them from the 'captivity' in which they are and return them to the bosom of their families. In response to Nassar's news, the supporters asked to strengthen the spirit and faith of the young people of Tamra... In June 2021, the Haifa district attorney's office filed indictments against six Tamra residents, for lynching a Jew who happened to be in the settlement and for willful vandalism in a vehicle for reasons of racism, rioting and attempting to attack a police officer under aggravated circumstances. According to the indictment filed at the time, on May 12, 21, around midnight, Shir Alkalai, 49 years old, married and father of four, ran into the area. He made his way from his job as a private gardener to his home in the nearby Mitzpe Aviv, with a large "Nachman MeUman" sticker on his car. Due to the riots, the roads to the isolated settlement where he lives were blocked, and he took a detour through Tamra. When he had to stop the car in the traffic he got into, one of the people on the spot approached him, asked him if he was Arab, and when he replied that he was Jewish - a man started shouting at him in a voice "Jew, Jew". So they gathered around his car, threw stones at him from close range, and beat the car with kicks and punches. The rioters pulled out Alkalai's work tools, including a rake, wooden sticks, scissors, an electric saw and an aluminum rod - and hit his vehicle with the tools, smashed his windows, hit him through the shattered windows and through the passenger door which they managed to open. Again and again they tried to take him out of the vehicle in order to beat him, and he had to protect his head with his hands. According to the indictment, the defendants threw a stone at the window and beat Alkalai and one of them pulled his hair hard in order to get him out of the vehicle and end the lynching. He was saved by some residents who took him to the intensive care van of the "El Zahraoui" company, which evacuated him in serious condition with serious injuries in all parts of his body to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. Since then they were accused and convicted after admitting to the indictment, the young men were under house arrest under electronic shackles but yesterday (Tuesday) they returned to prison after they asked to begin serving their sentence, which has not yet been completed, behind bars. Attorneys Tami Ulman and Shadi Srugi, who represent the young men, advised them not to wait any longer under house arrest, until their sentence is heard, since this period of detention is not counted towards serving their expected sentence, but only actual imprisonment in the prison. The sentence in their case is expected to be determined by Judge Erez Porat in the district court in Haifa on October 23, 2022.
Judge Porat is known for his lenient approach and the low sentences he hands down to participants in disturbances during Operation Guardian of the Walls. His rulings have been criticized more than once by Supreme Court judges who accepted the appeals of the prosecutor's office in several cases he discussed and determined that Porat exceeded his authority when he eased in punishment.↑ Lior Al-Hai , "An act of racially motivated terrorism": a 27-year-old from Acre is accused of setting fire to the "Efendi" hotel, YNet, Sep 5, 2021. An indictment was filed against Hassan Eid [حسن عيد] for his involvement in setting fire to the hotel in Acre during the disturbances during the Guardian of Walls Operation. "He picked up a large stone, slammed it several times against the hotel door and broke the glass," it said. "He then poured a flammable substance on the floor of the hotel and set the door on fire." Scientist Avi Har Even (84) died in the incident.↑ Yair Kraus, The punishment of one of the arsonists in Acre in the Guardian of the walls, was aggravated: "He did not condemn the actions", YNet, Octv5, 2024. The supreme judges accepted the state's appeal against the sentence of Fouad Madi [فؤاد ماضي], who was sent to 4 years and 3 months in prison for his part in setting fire to a hotel and restaurant in Acre - and determined that he will serve an additional 15 months in prison. Judge Elron harshly criticized the original sentence: "to implement a strict policy in relation to crimes committed in riots."
Judge Elron, who headed the panel, rejected the defense attorney's claim, and ruled that "since the respondent did not ask to retract his confession, the claim that he acted spontaneously out of anger and without a racial motive must be rejected altogether." Elron also wrote in his decision that the sentence Judge Fish handed down to Madi "doesn't fit the severity of his actions, and is excessively lenient with him"...↑ Y Kraus, Antisemitism in Acre is reminiscent of darker times, JPost, May 13, 2022. These disturbing scenes are reminiscent of darker times in Jewish history, when we were powerless at the hands of our non-Jewish neighbors.
May 11, 2021, was a watershed for Jewish-Arab relations in Israel, especially in my hometown of Acre. On that day, hundreds of Arab residents took to the streets, motivated by their hatred of Jews. They sought to murder, burn and destroy. These scenes were repeated in mixed cities throughout the country, such as Ramle and Lod. Living in Acre, I honestly feared for my life, as well of those of my family and friends. [11]
In Acre, after four days of rioting, more than 60 Jewish-owned businesses were burned, destroyed or looted. [12] Three Jews were lynched by Arab mobs in the city center. A year later, they continue to suffer severe disabilities and require serious medical care. For four full days, the police and the authorities did not step in to quell the looting and lawlessness.
The terrorists that took to the streets also targeted Jewish-owned hotels and hostels, while Jews hid inside. Trapped in one burning building was acclaimed Israeli aerospace scientist Avi Har-Even, 85, who later succumbed to his wounds. Har-Even had previously been awarded the prestigious Israel Defense Prize for his working in developing life-saving security technologies.
Of course, these violent terrorists do not represent all Arab residents of Acre. That being said, the rioters cannot be dismissed as irrelevant or insignificant. Twenty thousand Arabs live in Acre, and several hundreds of them are our enemy. They have been emboldened by what they see as victory over the Jews and are waiting for another round. These Arab radicals are violent, dangerous and waiting to strike again at the Jews.
Since the May riots, the antisemitic harassment and violence has continued. Our children’s schools have been the targets of violence. Young Arab boys regularly throw stones at Jewish school children, spit and curse them. After 7 p.m., Jews do not walk in the city center or the beach promenade. They are scared of being attacked by Arab thugs. Every Friday night, when religious Jews walk to synagogues in the city center, Arab youths regularly harass them, insult and humiliate them.
[A CAR is set aflame during clashes between Arabs and Jews in Acre, May 12. (credit: RONI OFER/FLASH90)]
There is a trend of Jewish emigration from mixed cities, accelerated by Arab aggression. A friend of mine lives near City Hall, where he is the last Jew left in his building. He lives on a street that was completely Jewish twenty years ago. Every Saturday, Arab children throw stones at his porch and windows. They make sure to get his laundry dirty, in order to make him leave his home. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident.
These disturbing scenes are reminiscent of darker times in Jewish history, when we were powerless at the hands of our non-Jewish neighbors. They should have been relegated to Kishinev or Baghdad in the 1900s, not the sovereign Jewish state in 2022.
This situation did not develop in a vacuum. The Arab perpetrators believe that they will succeed in driving Jews away from Acre. Right now, Jews do not feel safe in their homes. Jewish fear only encourages Arab extremism and irredentism. Each side knows that it is only a matter of time until the powder keg explodes again.
Despite the blatant nationalist and anti-Jewish nature of the violence, there is in an attempt in some quarters to sweep Arab extremism under the rug. Many people, especially on the Israeli left, refuse to look Arab separatism in the eyes. They offer excuses, such as unequal allocation of resources, discrimination[sic] and neglect. According to this narrative, the May riots were a civil protest, even if they may have gotten out of hand.
This narrative is very convenient as it alleviates the need to acknowledge that many elements of Arab society are fundamentally opposed to Jewish presence and statehood. It also ignores the fact that the mayor of Acre has prioritized the Arab school system, investing more in Arab education than in the Jewish system, in order to raise the economic and social well-being of Acre's residents.
The truth is that Acre is a welcoming and overall good place for its Arab residents. They enjoy flourishing community life, cultural and educational activities, as well as booming commerce and business opportunities. However, radical ideologies in the Arab sector are straining and challenging any semblance of common life. We must openly recognize that there are radical Islamic and Arab nationalist elements that do not accept the existence of a Jewish state.
This situation simply cannot continue. In recent months, I have been reporting on the antisemitic events happening regularly on the streets of Acre. The municipality and the state must set down a firm hand and protect their citizens. Israel governed by the rule of law, which applies equally to all citizens. Unless Israel is willing to reassert its sovereignty and crack down on Arab lawlessness, it is only a matter of time until May 2021’s violence repeats itself. The writing is on the wall. This time around, Israel cannot feign surprise.↑ Arie Yoeli, Lynch in Jerusalem: Arab rioters attacked an ultra-Orthodox" Srugim News, May 13, 2021. At least five people attacked an ultra-Orthodox-looking man on Nablus Road. The Arabs beat the ultra-Orthodox, kicked him and punched him. He needed medical attention. Police were able to capture five of the attackers.↑ I. Curiel, "Charge against a person involved in a lynching attempt in the Negev, which attacked during house arrest - "Slaughter, d_g Jew", YNet, June 14, 2021. 'Abd al-'Aziz' Amrani, a resident of the Bedouin diaspora, violated the conditions of his house arrest for a robbery - and participated in the riots in the Negev. The indictment against him attributes to him offenses of terrorist act and causing racist damage, and participating in a lynching of a Jewish driver on Route 25: "Slaughter him, Jew of a d_g," he read when he attacked.↑ I. Curiel, "Six residents of the Negev are accused of participating in riots in the south", YNet, June 10, 2021. Indictments have been filed against four young men and two boys from Malkia for throwing stones at vehicles in the south during riots last month. "Act for a nationalist-racist motive," it read. So far, no one has been accused of lynching attempts to set vehicles on fire on the roads.
The prosecutor's office filed three indictments yesterday (Thursday) against six residents of Lakia in the Negev for their involvement in riots and riots in the south last month. Adam Alsane (19), Suleiman Alcene (19), Anas Alcane (19), Braa Alsane (18) and two 17-year-old boys were charged with committing offenses under the Anti-Terrorism Act of throwing or firing a stone or object at a vehicle and rioting.
Indictments have been filed against four young men and two boys from Malkia for throwing stones at vehicles in the south during riots last month. "Act for a nationalist-racist motive," it read. So far, no one has been accused of lynching the vehicles on the roads.↑ H Goldich, "Accusation - A teacher at a school in Jerusalem attacks a racist motive in the Old City", YNet, May 26, 2021. The prosecution has filed an indictment against Baha Aladdin Najib, 33, a schoolteacher and resident of the Old City of Jerusalem, for assault causing actual bodily harm and malicious damage from a racist motive against Temple Mount activist R' Eliyahu Weber. According to the indictment, about two weeks ago, the defendant turned to a rabbi in the Bab al-Huta area and told him "do not pass through an Arab neighborhood." When the rabbi turned and turned his back on the defendant, he hit him on the left shoulder and as a result the rabbi's glasses and hat fell off. As he bent down to pick them up Najib hit him once more and continued to follow him as he hit his head.↑ A. Raved, "Two young Arabs from Acre were arrested on suspicion of assaulting students on racial grounds, YNet, May 25, 2021. Arab residents of Acre, aged 18 and 16, were arrested on suspicion of racistly attacking Jewish schoolchildren in the city. Tomorrow, the police will ask the Magistrate's Court in Acre to extend their detention.↑ Hagit Hornstein, "Indictment: A severe resident of Haifa was attacked and injured by a racist nationalist motive", Kolbo News, July 20, 2021. Five Arabs, three of them residents of Haifa, are accused of participating in the difficult events that took place during the violent riots in the city last May. Among the offenses attributed to them: an act of terrorism of aggravated intentional sabotage and intentional sabotage of a vehicle motivated by racism.
The Haifa District Attorney's Office (Criminal) filed an indictment in the city district court yesterday (Monday) against Nur Waked (21), Joan Zabidat (21) and Adam Omer (19), residents of Haifa, and against Shadi Mahmoud (24) and Rani Abu Tarif (19 ), Whose place of residence is prohibited from publication. The indictment attributes to them offenses of aggravated intentional act of terrorism, intentional sabotage of a vehicle motivated by racism and reckless and negligent act of racism - each according to his share, for their involvement in assaulting a Haifa resident (48) and sabotaging several vehicles on racist nationalist grounds.
The events described in the indictment took place in May this year.↑ 285.0 285.1 Chen Beyar, "First publication: 5 Arabs arrested on suspicion of lynching Beni Salman in Haifa", Kan News, July 5, 2021. The 5 suspects who harmed Bnei Salman during "The Guardian of the Walls", after being videotaped as a Jew. Salman is still in the process of rehabilitation today: "He does not sleep at night, with pain and can only eat liquid things. Hopefully justice will be done." Some of the suspects are also attributed to throwing Molotov cocktails at a vehicle in the city.
Police and the GSS arrested five Arabs suspected of lynching Bnei Salman on Allenby Road in Haifa during Operation Guardian of the Walls.
When Salman arrived on the Allenby road, two people approached him and asked him if he was an Arab. He answered "yes". They answered him "liar, liar", and then dozens of masked men beat him cruelly. "I remember one blow, or blows," News would recall here. "The body goes into shock. I hear their blows and blows, as if from above, without feeling, until I hear - 'Leave him, he's dead.'"
Salman lost consciousness, his vision was impaired and he had difficulty eating. He said that in addition to the physical injury, he also suffers from anxiety. "I have a very hard time sleeping at night, I have to eat liquid food, I have pain, I lose focus of the eyes. I have pain in the ribs, I had fractures there." Finally he shared: "Hopefully with the announcement of the extraction of the sentence, some justice will be done - but I do not so much believe."
- Kan News @kann_news Tweeted: (June 19, 2021)
They asked him if he was Jewish or Arab, and beat him to the point of unconsciousness: Five Arab-Israelis are charged with a series of terrorist offenses and racist assaults, for attacking Beni Salman in Haifa in May.
↑ "I heard them say 'kill him it's a Jew'", Yinon Magal and Ben Caspit, 103FM, May 26, 2021. Benny Salman, who is hospitalized at Rambam after Lynch: "I collapsed. I did not feel the beatings, I just waited to die "•" Is this the Jewish state? Two days ago they said - do not leave the house "
Benny Salman, who is hospitalized at Rambam Hospital in Haifa after being lynched during the riots two weeks ago, shared his condition and the feeling of severe insecurity: "I am after an operation in which my jaw was fixed with screws. I broke my jaw, nose and ribs. I can't talk, eat, breathe, my mouth is cut off. "He told of the chain of events:" I was with my mother in the Neve David neighborhood of Haifa. And my mistake was that I was walking ... I wanted to run away, but they caught me and attacked me. Probably with rods. After the first blow I collapsed. I did not feel the beatings I just waited to die. I did not see a single policeman. They rolled me over and said - leave him - he's dead. I woke up and dragged myself to the door. I did not see anything. The face was covered in blood. I knocked on a door and asked for help. "He referred to the general and personal security situation:" I do not feel safe here. Meters from my house it happened. So what am I supposed to feel: "I do not know if I will return to live here. I have no security. If I had a gun I would be alive but in court."↑ A lawsuit has been filed against Benny Salman's attackers in Haifa, By Eden Kleiman, Haipo, July 20, 2021. The Haifa District Attorney's Office (criminal) filed today (20/07/21) in the city district court, an indictment against Nur Waked (21), Joan Zabidat (21) and Adam Omer (19), residents of Haifa, and against Shadi Mahmoud (24) And Rani Abu Tarif (19), whose place was banned from publication. Due to their involvement in the attack on a Haifa resident, Benny Salman on a nationalist background during the May 21 riots.
As you may recall, last May we reported in Haifa on the attack on Haifa resident Beni Salman. In the exclusive interview in which we first interviewed the wounded man in the hospital bed, he recounted how while visiting his mother one evening, he was attacked by a number of young Arabs for being a Jew, during the May 21 riots against Operation Wall Guard. Benny was seriously injured, and with the rest of his strength he went to a house nearby to ask for help and there he lost consciousness, then woke up at Rambam Hospital and underwent several surgeries following the many injuries he had.
Benny Salman hospitalized at Rambam: "The Arab attackers rolled me into the bushes when they thought I was dead" | A chilling interview.
Today (20/07/21) The Haifa District Attorney's Office filed an indictment in the city district court against Nur Waked (21), Joan Zabidat (21) and Adam Omer (19), residents of Haifa, and against Shadi Mahmoud (24) and Rani Abu Tarif (19), that a place is prohibited from publication, which attributes to them the offenses of terrorist act of aggravated sabotage, intentional sabotage of a vehicle motivated by racism, and recklessness and negligence motivated by racism - each according to his part, for their involvement in attacking Haifa resident Bnei Salman (48) and sabotage In a number of vehicles on a racist nationalist background.
The events described in the indictment took place in May this year, ..
The indictment, filed through attorney Illit Epstein, states that on May 12 ...
The following night, some of the defendants who left Waked's house threw stones and fireworks at a house on which the Israeli flag hung, near the Salonkai synagogue in Haifa, and intentionally hit the vehicles parked with clubs, out of motive for racism.
Later, the defendants along with other masked men attacked a 48-year-old man with blows, punches and kicks while lying on the ground after being asked if he was Arab or Jewish. The defendants inflicted severe injuries on him and left him on the ground unconscious. As a result of the assault, the complainant suffered serious injuries to his face, ribs and was hospitalized for two weeks.
The investigation was conducted at the unit investigating the fight against crime in the Israel Police and the General Security Service.
At the same time, the prosecution asked the court to detain the defendants until the end of the proceedings against them. Judge Nitzan Salman today extended their detention until a different decision.
Beni Salman, a resident of Haifa who was attacked, tells Haifa News Corporation:
I adapt a bit to another life, today I had a psychologist yesterday Physiotherapy tomorrow I have a committee, pains still eating in the jaw. Sleep is no longer sleeping, constant fatigue all the time, nose and jaw surgeries await me. I do not wish it on anyone, everything you eat is liquid and it chokes you, it takes an hour to eat something.
They came from the municipality at first, arranged for me at the unemployment office and helped me and said I was injured and there is one from Social Security who helps me. My son continues, it's helpless, the most ordinary thing you're used to doing, I can not drink coffee! It takes eternity. From depression I would not get out of bed, and what you see is just fluids and dreaming at night about borax.
It bothers me that these are called riots
Now it bothers me that they call it riots, three days before they are seen walking around vandalizing property, synagogues, burning flags and looking for Jews to kill. All this happens in time of war when they attack Israel and they support the enemy, except for anti-Semitism there is nothing in it. It is simple to take a step against the state, all the support there is in Gaza, and what is even more serious is that three of the defendants are from Haifa, it could be that the person who demonstrated against you the night before morning sells you shawarma.
Now this is the test of the courts
I think I need an electronic showcase for them to see and be seen, otherwise you will be thrown a Molotov cocktail at home. During all these disturbances for four days there was not a single policeman, they did what they wanted, if they did not see that there was a rule here. In my opinion this is now the test of the courts, what interests me is to see the punishment they will be given, otherwise for what they worked hard to catch them. I believe that if they give a ridiculous punishment, next time there will be an organization of many Jews and Arabs will be attacked because the state does not guard them so they will take the law into their own hands.
If they here would flip through that punishment, after they burned the whole avenue here and the cars and cops stood unanswered on the side, and the cops came with batons and horses, people burned cars and did not touch them. Next time they might come and knock on my door, ask if I'm an Arab and then attack me.↑ The sanitation worker was attacked by Arabs - the Gari'n surprised him. Yair Kalpa, BHOL, 14 Sivan 5781, 25/05/2021.
After rioters abused him and beat him to death, this morning an employee of the Sanitation Department of the Lod Municipality was surprised when he discovered dozens of children and residents... who came to strengthen him and encourage his spirit. The sanitation worker, an elderly Jew, was attacked by Arab rioters who beat him mercilessly and abused him for a long time...↑ Vehicles smashed and stones thrown at the head: Serious indictments against boys in the Negev at the "Guardian of the Walls" The indictments were filed for committing acts of terrorism during the military operation. Among other things, the indictment reveals a harsh description of stone-throwing in a vehicle and the smashing of stones on the head of a passenger, who finally managed to escape with the help of a local sheikh. Oded Bar-Meir, Beersheva.Mynet, July 12, 2021. The Southern District Attorney's Office (Criminal) has filed three indictments in the Be'er Sheva District Court against six defendants, including five minors: one is about 15 years old and the other is about 17 years old from Umm Batin. The indictments attribute to each, in turn, the commission of acts of terrorism, throwing or firing a stone or other object at a vehicle, intentional damage to a vehicle from a racist motive, rioting and other offenses. ↑ @pozailov1: 6 residents of Um Betin, (including 5 minors) are accused in carrying out terrorist practicality or contingent of a stone or another object towards transporting vehicles, interruption and other offenses from racist motivation during the operation of the Guardians of the walls.
July 12, 2021.↑ "Maniac J..., this is our area": 6 accused of assault on a racial basis in Haifa Lior El-Hai, Ynet, Aug 9, 2021 The six are accused of attacking a 21-year-old Nesher resident during the riots during the "Guardian of the Walls" and setting fire to the scooter he was riding. Molotov cocktails were then thrown at his friend who had come to help. Ran Diamant, a messenger who was also attacked by the six, told Ynet: "A difficult event, I thought I would die"... In a conversation with Ynet, Diamant said: "When they honked behind me and gave gas, I realized that they were looking for violence and wanted to just fall on Jews. They were about to get on me with the car. I got on the sidewalk with the scooter and I stopped. They gave brakes. Then Arabs began coming out from all the doors. I said to myself, 'What am I doing now?' I was thinking of trying to fight back and defend myself. " "I told them 'I'm just a courier and a worker, what do you want?'" Diamant added. "They kept cursing and beating me. I did not hit them back and did not curse. I hoped they would move on. They were looking for me to push them, as so to trample me." ↑ The victim of the lynching in Acre: "I was beaten with clubs and planks, stabbed in the head. I just screamed and cried", YNet, May 23, 2021
Mor Janashvili, who fell victim to a lynching in Acre by an Arab mob, is still trying to recover from the trauma: "My soul is scarred. At night I shout...↑ You understand you're going to get burned ": Wounded Lynch in shaky text | Hard to read, Ami Chai, NEWS20, Oct 13, 2021. Five months after undergoing a lynching attempt by Arab terrorists in the city of Acre, Moore Janashvili talks about the serious injury to body and mind, describes the events of the night and commits himself to do everything so that the terrorists will be punished.
5 months have passed since the lynching in which Mor Janashvili was seriously injured. The lynching was carried out in the city of Acre during riots that took place during Operation Guardian of Walls. The GSS and police investigation revealed that the terrorists identified Janashvili's vehicle as belonging to a Jew, partly due to Israeli flags. The terrorists beat Janashvili severely with stones and clubs, and continued to beat him even when he fell to the ground.
Last night (Tuesday), Janashvili published a moving text in which he describes what he has been going through since the lynching: the serious injury to the body, the nightmares and flashbacks and the dealing with the disability following the incident.
Janashvili described the difficult lynching incident and pledged to do everything in his power to ensure that the terrorists receive the maximum punishment.
The text written by the wounded Lynch Mor Janashvili | Hard to read 5 months passed. 5 months of getting up to death and inferno, 5 months of never ending rehabilitation, 5 months of incessant nightmares, 5 months of flashbacks, 5 months of psychiatric treatments and psychologists not seeing the end, 5 months of "Moore you must Get out of it what do you have? Why are you stuck on it? ", 5 months of a crappy wheelchair.
5 months have passed since that damn night of bloody night in Acre where I was in hell, war, terrorist attack - alone. 12.5 Hour 21:20 Hundreds of Derech Street in Acre Hundreds of masked terrorists armed with rocks and iron and wooden poles blocked the road with objects and waited for a Jew. The terrorists' hatred of everything to do with Jews.
The identification was according to the Israeli flag I had on the car window. "Yahud Yahud." The attempt to lynch by opening the car door - and understanding that you have to do an act if you do not do your body will be like the corpses of those in Ramallah in a split second it passes you, you hit the gas to save your life - and only because you are Jewish, just like in Germany, you know you are going to die but you do not agree to be as a sheep to the slaughter.
After being stoned to death by rocks and stones and objects and losing control you decide to flee the vehicle, you realize you are going to be burned in the vehicle while alive by the terrorists. The hatred there burned. They wanted Jewish blood. In your heart you knew it was over, that you had no chance. The thirsty for Jewish blood terrorists want a cruel lynx to happen to me. At all times stones and iron rod and wood are hurled at me.↑ Recognized that it was a Jew - and attacked: 3 defendants in a lynching attempt in Acre.Difficult documentation, Ahiya Raved, YNet, June 24, 2021 The prosecution has filed indictments against Kusai Abbas, Adham Bashir and Bilal Hilwani, who participated in the lynching attempt in which Mor Janashvili was seriously injured. Two of them are accused of a terrorist act, the head of the investigation team: "More suspects will be located soon." Janashvili at the Ynet studio: "If I hadn't gotten out of the car, they would have burned me alive."
Interview with the victim of the lynching, this morning: "The mental state - the most difficult"
The Northern District Attorney's Office filed an indictment today (Thursday) against three young men from Acre for the attempted lynching of Moore Janashvili on May 12, and asked to detain them until the end of the proceedings. Qusay Abbas is charged with a terrorist act of attempted murder, an act of terrorism throwing a stone at a vehicle, intentionally sabotaging a vehicle of racist motive and rioting, Adham Bashir is charged with a terrorist act of aggravated intentional sabotage and rioting, while Bilal Hilwani is charged with rioting. "They wanted to burn me alive," Janashvili said today with great difficulty at the Ynet studio. "Something detached from me at the event and stayed there."
Hard documentation from the lynching experience.↑ One of Janashvilli's attackers sentenced, Honenu, March 22, 2022. On Monday, March 21, the Haifa District Court sentenced Bilal Hiluani to an active prison term and also handed down a suspended sentence. Hiluani took part in the terror attack on Mor Janashvilli in Acco on May 12, 2021, during Operation Guardian of the Walls and was convicted of rioting. He admitted to the charges attributed to him in the amended indictment: that he had caused a frenzy by calling out to an incited mob that Janashvilli had run over one of the participants in the attack.
In the sentence that they handed down to Hiluani, Judges Lifshitz, Zeigler and Mandelbaum wrote, "There is no dispute regarding the severity of the acts of the defendant. The rioting in which he took part was nationalistically-racially motivated."
The court also convicted Adham Bashir, another participant in the terror attack who admitted to the charges against him, of aggravated assault in an act of terror, attempted assault in an act of terror, and rioting. A penalty hearing in his case has been scheduled for July.
After the hearing, Janashvilli, who has been dependent on a wheelchair for mobility since the attack...↑ "Acre May/12/21 - several racist Arabs lynching of whom they identified as a Jew, Mor Janashvili - Unrelaible Haaretz omits 'racist motives in the English version... June/24/21". DP, Oct 13, 2021.
Omitted words: Charged Kusai Abbas, in a 'racist motive' ...↑ The neighbor pointed and shouted - "this is the Yahud's (Jew's) van": 240 vehicles were set on fire during riots Gilad Cohen, Ynet, June 1, 2021. According to data obtained by Ynet, about 240 vehicles were set on fire in riots throughout Israel that accompanied the operation in Gaza, and Lod suffered the hardest blow. Michal, a resident of the city and a mother of four, photographed from the broken shutter her Arab neighbors lighting and breaking her cars: "The world has turned upside down for us, we waited for the morning to come and for the nightmare to end." ...There was a demonstration of men, women and children. This demonstration turned into a situation where people with T-shirts on their faces and igniting everything that moved and the clearest cries of 'Itbakh al-Yahud' and 'With Blood and Fire we will Redeem Palestine.' "This is not an easy neighborhood, but everything was criminal. We do not understand where this nationalist demon came from."... I hear one of the neighbors calling the neighbors and calling the youth to come. I hear my neighbor we talk and sales. Shouts and points 'This is the Jew's van'...Adv. Ma'ayan Haimovich, who specializes in criminal law and vice chair of the National Committee for the Rights of Suspects and Investigators at the Bar Association, criticized the fact that in some cases where indictments were filed following vehicle arson, the prosecution refrained from attaching a racist motive: "Car burning is just one of the crimes committed. Racist background, we often in these incidents, we get indictments that refer to these incidents only in terms of corruption, harm and violence, but it is certainly timely to understand that these offenses, the motive behind them is purely racist, and therefore the indictments should be punctual and strict due to the same racist background. It is inconceivable that racism would take a place that would not be reflected in the indictments and in court. It is definitely time for a change."↑ Amnon Shomron, Shvi'i", Issue 440, 17 Sivan 5781, 28.05.21. The security cameras, which documented the lynching in Jaffa by a large number of Arabs, tell a difficult story about a violent and indifferent society, of rioters and those watching from the sidelines. ... a minute of breaking cruelty. Animalistic. And there are the randomness: dozens of Jaffa Arabs, one probably does not know each other, joining together, from the moment to the moment, like the Lynch in Ramallah, to abuse the Jew.
Dror Tamir, 43, who went for a walk the, on the sidewalk on Yefet Street in Jaffo, fell victim - was pushed by an Arab female.
...about 10 Arabs ran towards him. The first jumped and kicked him to the stomach. His ribs cracked. The second, with the blue vest and white T-shirt punched in his face, the others continued to beat and prevent him from escaping.
He was dropped on the sidewalk, and as he attempts to escape, he's dragged on the road.
The group clings on him, and kicks all over his body. One moves the other to find a comfortable angle to kick. Others bother and bend to pound his face. They are not selective in body parts. And all wild, intensively, with enjoyment. Hit the Jew as much as you could. The cellular is falling, and someone takes it.
On the sidewalk 4 Arab young women. 3 in Muslim clothing and one in Jeans. The one with the jeans goes down the road. Maybe to separate? No. She came to see closely the lynch. Looks in indifference and returns. Another on the sidewalk, cheers on in applause.
Meanwhile, from the street slopes, more Arabs run, arrive and join the beaters. About 20 Arabs in the arena, on the pavement is a crowd spectators. The shop owners are also watching. No one lifts a finger. Do one calls to stop, as it happened in Bat Yam when a group of people created a circle of shielding around the Arab - victim of lynch.
After 30 seconds, it seems the group was finished and moved away. Dror stands, bent, exhausted, swinging on his feet. Then, that's with the blue [vest], comes from behind and kicks his back. Dror collapses in the center of the road.
Second after, two arrive, one with a electric bicycle and the other with a motorcycle. The one from the bicycle raises him roughly from his shirt, and you want to believe, [it is] to rescue him from the road, but no. He also wants to enjoy the beating of a Jew and hit him, and with that, opens a new lynching round, as the mob who went away joins him. They beat him with his club, hit in his face and smash a chair on him.
A moment after, the street begins to disperse. Maybe someone reported cops that come.
Dror lies in the center of the road. Vehicles and bicycles are running around him. No one stops to help, to assist.
And another moment of slump: The State Attorney's Office arrested 4 of the rioters. The indictment [is] without a racism or hate crime clause which is supposed to double the punishment. Dror says he did not talk to his attackers, who cursed and talked to him in Hebrew and that it was clear to them that he was a Jew. And if one assumes that this is a pilgrim from Amsterdam who brought his dog [with him], or a photographer of the National Geographic?
Is the beating him because he is not an Arab not to be considered? Will shooting on a vehicle whose language of its passengers is not known no longer be considered a nationalist attack?↑ An Arab tried to murder with a stone and will not be convicted of attempted murder. The judge on the attacker: "went out to fight against Jews", INN, Channel 7, 21 in Elul, 5783, September 7, 2023. The District Court in Haifa ruled that an Arab who participated in the lynching of Mordechai Katz in Acre will not be convicted of attempted murder.The district court in Haifa this morning (Thursday) convicted Habib Abu Habib [حبيب ابو حبيب] who participated in the brutal lynching of Mordechai Katz in Acre during the Guardian of the Walls operation and threw stones at him from point blank range for a terrorist act of aggravated assault only and not for the crime of attempted murder.
Habib was also convicted of the offenses of attempted injury under aggravated circumstances with a racial motive and rioting.
In the verdict, the judges described the brutal lynching in which Habib participated: "On May 12, 21, the defendant joined masked Arab youths and together they threw stones at Jews who were passing by. At the same time, the complainant participated in a procession in a nearby street and at one point groups of young Jews and Arabs began throwing stones at one another Towards the second. The complainant who felt danger decided to leave the place."
"While the complainant was running in the street, the accused noticed him while holding a stone, took another stone from the road, ran towards him and from a distance of two meters threw the stone forcefully at the upper body of the complainant. As a result of one of the stones hitting his head, the complainant fell to the ground. At that time at least six Arab rioters beat him using stones, sticks and kicks in all parts of his body, and the accused stood over the complainant and threw another stone at him. Jewish citizens came to the complainant's aid, as well as a police officer who shot into the air in order to keep the rioters away from the complainant, and thus the accused and the others stopped beating the complainant and fled the scene."
The court acquitted Abu Habib of the terrorist act of attempted murder, this after the court determined that there is reasonable doubt as to the existence of the mental element necessary for a conviction of attempted murder. In addition, it was proven beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant's actions establish the offense of aggravated assault with intent.
In relation to the issue of the act of terrorism, Judge Yehiel Lifshitz noted in the judgment that "the defendant and other rioters like him are the ones who hindered the Israel Police from maintaining order. In other words, the defendant and his ilk were the cause of the disorder and riots; the cause and not the result. It is clear that when the defendant went out into the street, he He went to battle; and the 'battle' was against the Jews, who according to him came to harass the Arab residents of Acre."
The judge also wrote: "This is someone who 'looks for trouble' and does not shy away from finding it again and again, in front of the police forces and in front of Jews that he sought to confront because of their Jewishness and not for any other reason."
Attorney Haim Bleicher from the Honenu organization representing Mordechai Katz responded to the verdict and said: "The terrorist hit Mordechai with a rock and after Mordechai was lying on the ground unconscious, the terrorist grabbed another rock in his hand and threw it forcefully at the wounded man. But miraculously the stone missed Mordechai and did not worsen his condition to a more difficult or even fatal outcome."
"We regret the verdict that did not convict him of attempted murder. The facts of the case are before the panel of judges and the actions of the accused are unequivocal and we expect that during the sentencing phase the terrorist will be given a severe punishment since even for the current offense he can be sentenced to 25 years in prison. We thank the prosecutor's office and especially Attorney Ohad Cohen who went all the way in demanding the conviction of the terrorist for attempted murder. We will continue to come to discussions and demand justice with the terrorists."
Mordechai Katz attacked the judges' decision and said: "After I was not ready for about two years to reach a plea agreement thanks to Ohad Cohen, the attorney who respected my wishes, the court ruled that such a brutal and deadly attack is not attempted murder. If it is not attempted murder, then what is attempted murder? If Police officer Moshe Shelley, Chen Cohen and other citizens would not have come. It is clear to everyone that the terrorists would not have given me first aid."
"Only one terrorist out of the whole murderous gang that attacked me. Does the court really want to fight terrorism or just mark a V? When the court wants to, it can. I leave with the feeling that the court is not doing everything it can or that it simply does not really want to eradicate terrorism."↑ Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades Calls For General Mobilization In West Bank, Instructs Fighters To Make Life 'An Unbearable Hell' For Israelis. May 17, 2021. On May 16, 2021, The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank, the military wing of the Palestinian Fatah movement, issued a statement instructing its fighters to answer its call for general mobilization, known as "Al-Nafir," to defend Jerusalem, the 1948 territories, and the Gaza Strip, which it said are under intense Israeli bombardmen https://www.memri.org/reports/fatahs-al-aqsa-martyrs-brigades-calls-general-mobilization-west-bank-instructs-fighters-make ↑ The inciting Imam from Lod - arrested Channel 7, 7 in Tammuz 5781. 17/06/21 Sheikh Yosef Elbaz was arrested after inciting violence against Jews in general and security forces in particular during Operation Guardian. The organization 'Ad-Kan' ("upto here") also responded to the arrest. "We filed a complaint against the Sheikh yesterday at the Lod Police. We congratulate the Israel Police for their prompt cause, which within 24 hours led to the arrest of the inciting Sheikh. We will continue to monitor, alert and report to the police and all relevant parties any terrorist activity and to harm the police, soldiers and citizens of the State of Israel. " Ad-Kan states that they built a case on the Al Omri Mosque, which is used by Elbaz Sheikh, which shows that this is a mosque that throughout the disturbances served as a base for incitement and went out to riots and disturbances in the city of Lod. ↑ senior cleric from Lod was arrested last night on suspicion of incitement in social networks Detectives from the National Unit for International Investigations at Lahav-433 arrested Imam Yussef Muhammad Elbaz last night on suspicion of posting a Facebook post referring to a video allegedly calling for harming police officers. Police arrested Lod city imam Yosef Muhammad Elbaz, 63, on Thursday night on suspicion of inciting violence, terrorism and threats. The suspect posted a Facebook post referring to a video, allegedly calling for harm to police officers. ↑ Imam in Lod arrested for inciting violence against Israel Police officers Jerusalem Post Staff, June 17, 2021. An Imam in Lod was arrested by Israel Police's Lahav-433 anti-corruption unit on suspicion of inciting Muslim constituents to harm police officers, according to a police report. The Imam, Yosef Muhammad Elbaz, 63, uploaded a Facebook post that called for Arab-Israeli citizens to go out and violently confront police officers. He was charged by the Lahav-433 unit for suspected incitement, violence, terrorism and making threats. ↑ The inciting sheikh: The imam who shared a video calling for the murder of police officers was arrested, News 20, 7th of Tammuz 5722 (17/06/2021)... Elbaz is the largest mosque imam in Lod. In recent weeks, Jewish residents in Lod have demanded that he be arrested following remarks he made at the mosque, in which he made provocative chants. As stated, after the publication of the last post, complaints were filed against him by the police. Elbaz is affiliated with the northern faction of the Islamic Movement, and police are preparing for the possibility that violent riots will develop in the city following his arrest. Meanwhile, last week the detention of Kamal Khatib, deputy chairman of the northern faction of the Islamic Movement, who was accused of publishing incitement last month - in the background of Operation Wall Guard - was extended. Khatib was arrested last month and charged with incitement to violence and support or identification with a terrorist organization. At Operation Guardian of the Walls last month, a series of violent incidents took place in Lod. On May 11, Yigal Yehoshua, a 56-year-old city resident who was killed while throwing stones at his vehicle, was murdered. In the violent incidents in Lod, synagogues of Jews were damaged. For example, in the Dosa Synagogue, at least three arson attempts were made, causing partial damage to the building and the courtyard. In the synagogue and the beit midrash of the Maoz preparatory school, holy books were burned in an attempted arson. ↑ Five days in two minutes - the true story of the Lod riots, Rotter, Oct 27, 2021. Riots 5781 Lod.
10.5.21 Incitement speech at the Al Omari Mosque. 20:30 Burning of Israeli flags. 21.00 Burning down of cars around the city. 21.30 Fireworks fire on Jewish homes. 22.00 Blocking of Road 40 at the entrance to Lod. 22.30 Ignition of the pre-preparatory mechina. 'stronghold'. 23.40 Throwing stones at Jerusalem Day celebrations in Flower Square. The celebrants are fleeing to the houses following the attacks. 1.00 A number of residents are forced to fire at the attackers, from the shooting one of the attackers was killed: Musa Hassouna.
Throughout the night between May 10 and 11, riots continued throughout Lod.
11.5.21, 17:45 Musa Hassouna's funeral procession leaves Mosque Al Omari.Throughout the city of Lod, Arabs throw stones at cars at Jewish drivers.
21:30 In a planned stone ambush on Hamasger Street, the late Yigal Yehoshua z"l is attacked with stones.
When he slowed down, he was stoned to death in the head.
21:51:15 He manages to drive to the parking lot next to his house and there collapses.
At the same time one of the killers tries to delete the materials from the security cameras. Six days later, Yigal Yehoshua died at the hospital.
12.5.21, 03:00 Hamas rockets fired at Lod.. . .
Inquiries to the police are not answered:
- 'Shalom police, a bundle of gunfire in the direction of the mechina. Fireworks fire on Katzenelson Street. Shots at Yakintom, a few bundles of shots. Please come quickly.'
- 'Okay, just do not confront them.'
- Do not confront them. Stay home and stay away from the windows. '
- 'Do not confront them'.
- 'Called you five times. 'Get there already'.
- 'What's up with you?'
. . .
Jewish families are leaving the city. Their apartments are looted by Arab neighbors.
Five days of riots. One killed. 13 wounded. 4 synagogues were set on fire. 7 apartments were broken into. 65 vehicles were burned.
Financial damage in millions...↑ Dan Schueftan: "Between Tehran and Gaza." Israel Hayom, May 19, 2021. https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/between-tehran-and-gaza/ "Since the outbreak of the current conflict, Israel has been given the opportunity to turn all of its resources against Hamas. This way, if and when Hamas wants to join the war between Israel and its enemies in the north, its contribution will be marginal and its suffering unbearable." ↑ Yishai Friedman, 'The "non-racist" attacker from Jaffa works for liberation "from occupation" and admires Hitler.' MakorRishon, April 22, 2021. https://www.makorrishon.co.il/opinion/339719/ . ...a brief browse on his Facebook page reveals quite a bit of antisemitic content. The flipping of the nationalist, racist and anti-Semitic motives was very rapid. Too fast. Because in the story of the two attackers, members of the Garbua family, there is a lot of art and hatred of Jews... From conversations I had with Jewish residents in Jaffa who experienced harassment from their Arab neighbors, it turns out that this is not the first time that one of the brothers, Ahmad Garbua, has harassed someone who he saw as a Jew... Jews in Jaffa, mostly religious, experience violence and anti-Semitism every week that includes beatings and harassment. The Israeli police act and stop attackers in case of a complaint, but the atmosphere among the authorities (court, municipality and also the police), quite a few locals tell me, is to sweep under the rug the nationalist and racist issue. When Arab boys beat a yeshiva student just like that on a clear day, it is a "brawl," with no nationalist or racist background, just a local criminal incident. These incidents are not reported or defined, neither by state authorities nor by the media, as hate crimes as is customary in... But everyone knows and understands that the motive is a great hatred for the presence of Jews in these places. But what makes the dance of righteousness and inclusion of the left particularly embarrassing are the publications over the years of Ahmad Garbua in which he is revealed as one who is not ashamed to spread anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews and much to Palestinian art. Not a neighbors' conflict but a national-religious struggle in which it is expressed that the Jews are "the sons of the monkeys and the pigs" and shows great enthusiasm from people like Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein... ↑ I Tvizer [13] ↑ T. SUCCOT ↑ https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/698354.shtml ↑ Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital fired Yusuf Naim after posting a picture of a swastika on his Instagram account. Kikar haShabbat [on FB], May 16, 2021. https://hu-hu.facebook.com/kikarashabat/posts/4436586816365713 ↑ At Hadassah: An employee posted a swastika and was suspended. A nurse at Hadassah Hospital posted a picture of a swastika next to the caption "Nazi Palestinian" on his Instagram account. Channel 7, 4. Sivan 5781. 15/05/21 https://www.inn.co.il/news/492709 ↑ Professor Hani Bawardi, University of Michigan in Dearborn: "Oh free people of the Triangle region [in Israel, you are the most honorable rebels! Oh the free people of Lod, of the Triangle [of Arab-Israeli cities, you are the most honorable rebels!] ↑ Against the background of the escalation in the south: launches were made towards the Upper Galilee.. Six launches were made from Lebanon toward the country, but did not cross the border fence. The IDF responded with artillery fire to the sources of the fire. At the same time, the fire continued from the Gaza Strip towards the southern settlements. Maariv writers, May 18, 2021. https://m.maariv.co.il/news/military/Article-841196 ↑ Judah Ari Gross: 'IDF: 4 rockets fired at Israel from Lebanon, 1 intercepted; no injuries.' Israeli artillery cannons shell source of fire in retaliation; 3 projectiles land in unpopulated areas in latest attack on Israel’s north; Palestinian faction said behind launch. TOI, May 18, 2021. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-4-rockets-fired-at-israel-from-lebanon-1-intercepted-no-injuries/ ↑ Hamas has been TikToking about Jerusalem, Israeli-Arabs for a year, Yonah Jeremy Bob. May 20, 2021. ...the report clarifies that there was a sophisticated and premeditated incitement campaign by Hamas to achieve the chaotic effect that has occurred in some Israeli-Arab communities.
For example, to connect itself with Sheikh Jarrah and extend its ideological influence from Gaza into east Jerusalem and among Israeli-Arabs within the Green Line, Hamas sent out a steady stream of messages that “Jerusalem will remain the conscience of the Palestinian nation.”
Next, the report quotes a Hamas spokesman, Abu Obeida, who called on Israeli-Arabs to take concrete acts of support for Hamas, knowing that the organization “had swords and shields for you.” In addition, Hamas distributed fake or manipulated news and images, including footage of a burning tree on the Temple Mount, to enrage the Israeli-Arab public.
In fact, Hamas itself set the tree ablaze, but portrayed the incident as though this was part of a campaign by radical Jews to take over the Temple Mount.↑ "In the information war Hamas won and we lost" Achikam Himmelfarb. Channel 20. 1 In Tammuz 5781 (11/06/2021) Special interview. Apart from the battle on the ground, in the last round of fighting against Hamas, we were also exposed to the battle for information on social networks. In the arena of war, Israel is showing great progress and sophistication, in everything related to information our situation needs to be improved, and urgently. Special interview with the orientalist and network activist. ↑ The operation in Gaza is accompanied by a lot of Fake News in the world. We've nade some order. The operation in Gaza is accompanied by Fake News around the world by Israeli opponents and supporters. The whistle - Guardian of the walls. A photo that was tweeted in Turkey and claims the difficult situation in Jerusalem, but originated in a Lebanese. Globes' whistle team, May 18, 2021.
The operation in Gaza and the events that preceded it in Jerusalem are, it turns out, receiving a lot of interest on news sites and social networks in Turkey. It seems that no small part of this matter is reflected in staged horror pictures or those taken out of context and also in incorrect information. One notable example of this is a picture of a boy kneeling with his shirt stained with blood. It was shared for example by a tweeter named KEKE, which has about 20,000 followers, and has won thousands of likes and hundreds of shares..
The Turkish fact-check Tait checked its origin and found it unrelated to the events that took place in Jerusalem on May 10, as claimed by some of the participants in the photo. In fact, it is unrelated to any event that occurred in reality. This is a picture from a Lebanese film from 2012 called "The Kingdom of the Ports", whose fictional plot concerns the second intifada from 2002.
Another photo shared on social media in Turkey shows the bodies of children lying in a row wrapped in shrouds. A Turkish tweet claimed that she was photographed in Jerusalem in recent days. Batayit checked and found that the photo was taken in August 2013 in Syria. Similar to this picture, other pictures originating from the war in Syria were distributed on the networks. In the case of another photo, in which a girl is seen crying over her dead brother, there is indeed a connection to our local confrontation, but she was taken in Jabalya in 2014, and not in 2021 in Jerusalem, as claimed.↑ Hamas using ‘cheap manipulation’ with fake hostage video, Israel says Lahav Harkov, JPost, June 7, 2021. Mengistu’s mother said it was not her son’s voice in the recording. ↑ 320.0 320.1 Sue Surkes, Students expose fake social media reports on Israel-Gaza, to set record straight, TOI, May 20, 2021. Around 180 students from Israel and around the world staff situation room at Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, looking out for false anti-Israel coverage and explaining facts.↑ https://m.ynet.co.il/articles/59313280 ↑ https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1974656/watch-jewish-man-beaten-by-pro-palestinian-protesters-in-toronto.html ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/jewish-group-condemns-pure-antisemitism-in-german-protests/2021/05/13/3638b4dc-b3eb-11eb-bc96-fdf55de43bef_story.html ↑ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/white-house-condemns-ongoing-rocket-attacks-by-hamas-against-israel-2021-05-11/ ↑ https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2021/05/10/US-UK-condemn-Hamas-rocket-attacks-on-Jerusalem ↑ 326.0 326.1 https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1393136506672451584?s=20 ↑ https://www.total-slovenia-news.com/politics/8279-israeli-flag-flown-on-slovenian-govt-building-in-show-of-solidarity ↑ Prague's Petřín Tower to light up in blue and white in support of Israel - Prague .— Prague's Petřín Tower to light up in blue and white in support of Israel. The Prague landmark will be lit up in the colors of the Israeli flag tonight... https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/prague-s-petrin-tower-to-light-up-in-blue-and-white-in-support-of-israel ↑ "Czech, Slovak and German foreign ministers land in Israel in show of solidarity." Alongside FM Ashkenazi, diplomats visit central Israel home hit by Gaza rocket, reiterate support for Israel's right to defend itself in the face of terrorist aggression. Aryeh Savir/TPS. Published: 05.20.21. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1KBOaQKd ↑ Rabbi E. Poupko- UNITED AGAINST ANTISEMITISM (@RabbiPoupko) Tweeted: Meanwhile in the Italian Parliament... 🇮🇹❤️🇮🇱 Thank you #Italy! ❤️ https://t.co/7NYbZVa5Nl https://twitter.com/RabbiPoupko/status/1395121162124996609?s=20 May 19, 2021 ↑ Ariel Schnabel (@ArielSchnabel) Tweeted: May 16, 2021: "There are here and there multiple Muslim demonstrations in Europe against Israel, but we prefer to leave you with good taste and a moment before the holiday to bring pictures collected today by the Foreign Ministry including rallies in support of the Jewish state and its just fight against the murderous Hamas terrorist organization. The photos are from Washington, Boston and New York. Happy and calm [Shavuot] holiday." ↑ 'During the operation in Gaza: a wave of anti-Semitism across Europe.' Politicians in Germany have called for more forceful action after a series of anti-Israel demonstrations, which included burning flags and calling for Hamas. In the UK, Johnson said that "there is no place for anti-Semitism in our society", after a convoy traveling in a Jewish neighborhood in London called for "raping their daughters." Walla, Tuesday, 18 May 2021. https://news.walla.co.il/item/3436194. Bundestag president Wolfgang Schäuble said that while it was legitimate to "sharply criticize" Israel and "protest loudly" against its policies, "there is no justification for anti-Semitism, hatred and violence." He especially condemned the demonstrators who questioned Israel's right to exist. He said that Muslim refugees and immigrants in Germany must understand "that they are migrating to a country where the unique responsibility for Israel is part of our identity." ↑ Anti-Israel Protests Spread Antisemitism, Attacks on Media. AJC, May 16, 2021 https://www.ajc.org/news/anti-israel-protests-spread-antisemitism-attacks-on-media ↑ We actually have mobs of radical Islamists walking the streets of London looking for Jews to attack. Like it or not - it is the truth. It has been building for years. This is London - the UK- in 2021. May 23, 2021 ↑ Juston Cohen, 'Sadiq Khan condemns 'hateful, intimidating, racist language' at anti-Israel demo. London mayor tells Jewish News, "It is unacceptable to incite anti-Jewish hatred" after men in Saddam Hussein t-shirts chant about killing Jews at London rally.' May 16, 2021. Men sported t-shorts with images of Saddam Hussein were heard chanting "Khayber Khayber Ya Yehud jaish Mohammad Sauf Ya'ud" ("Khayber Khaybar oh Jews, Mohammad’s army is returning") – a reference to the killing of Jews. https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/sadiq-khan-condemns-hateful-intimidating-racist-language-at-anti-israel-demo/ ↑ "Rape Jewish Women": The cries that shocked Britain. Stormy London streets: After huge demonstrations across Europe, Jewish community in Britain continues to absorb fire over Israeli operation in Gaza. A convoy of 5 vehicles drove around the capital, calling for the sexual assault of Jewish women. Elad Shmehiouf. Mako, May 16, 2021. https://www.mako.co.il/news-world/2021_q2/Article-bb732c4bfa67971027.htm ↑ Bini Guttmann (@Bini_Guttmann) Tweeted [May 16, 2021]: Yesterday Jewish students organized a demonstration against antisemitism in Vienna. (Mostly) Islamist and Turkish nationalist youth tried to interrupt it multiple times. Someone shouted “you can shove your Holocaust up your ass.” Everyone clapped. https://t.co/xe12iHoKux https://twitter.com/Bini_Guttmann/status/1393859707698356229?s=20 ↑ https://gellerreport.com/2021/05/nazis-flags-at-pro-terror-palestinian-demo.html/ ↑ LA Jewish man chased by 2 vehicles waving Palestinian flags: 'They were yelling Allahu akbar'. Jewish Los Angeles resident said he 'thought they were going to kill me' By Yael Halon | Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-jewish-man-chased-palestinian-flags-yelling-allahu-akbar.amp ↑ Dillon Hosier (@DillonHosier) Tweeted: Moments ago: A group of "pro-Palestine" attacked a table of Persian Jews at Sushi Fumi in Los Angeles, just outside of #weho city. #westhollywood / #LA #Antisemitism masked as #FreePalestine https://t.co/jjdWNqESLO May 18, 2021 Yuna Leibzon (@YunaLeibzon) Tweeted: Shocking pictures from Los Angeles: A group of Arabs stop near a restaurant, ask who is inside a Jew and start beating a man vigorously before fleeing. May 19, 2021 ↑ Operation The Guardian of the Walls] Global solidarity: Demonstration of support for Israel. USA, Canada and the Czech Republic: A big wave of identification organizations in the presence of thousands of participants - Galina Blanc, demonstrator in Los Angeles: "Uncompromising support". Shimon Yaishente Bernuam (Devol) Dvir 5/17/2021, 5:08 PM, updated 5/17/2021. https://www.israelhayom.co.il/news/geopolitics/article/1087780/ While thousands took part in pro-Palestinian protests around the world - unusually there was also a large wave of support organizations in Israel on four different continents. The demonstrations, organized by various bodies in more than 16 countries, included the hoisting of Israeli flags and signs expressing support for the Jewish state's right to defend itself. In the city of Winnipeg in the state of Manitoba, Canada, hundreds of Israeli supporters stood in front of a large crowd of Palestinian supporters and a large force of local police graveled between the two sides, who stood in front of the local legislature. ↑ Rallies set across America in support of Israel as violence, rockets continue. JNS, May 12, 2021. https://www.jns.org/rallies-set-across-america-in-support-of-israel-as-violence-rockets-continue/ ↑ Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman: "Evangelical Christians stand up for Israel, call on Biden to do the same." Jerusalem Post, May 15, 2021. https://www.jpost.com/international/evangelical-christians-stand-up-for-israel-against-white-house-668234 ↑ https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/pelosi-condemns-hamas-violence-in-overnight-rocket-barrage-667903 ↑ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/gop-senators-urge-biden-to-cut-off-talks-with-iran-in-light-of-hamas-rocket-attacks/ ↑ Dartunorro Clark: "Pence slams Biden for 'weakness' in handling of Israel-Hamas conflict." Pence touted the foreign policy achievements of the "Trump-Pence administration" several times in the piece, using a phrase not often heard while he was in office. NBC, May 17, 2021 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1267719 ↑ Manu Raju @mkraju: McConnell rejects calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. "We're already seeing some push the false narrative that this conflict is a tragic dispute between two legitimate combatants, where both sides share blame that is roughly equal. What nonsense," per @alizaslav. 4:22 PM · May 17, 2021 https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1394387844534358019?s=20 ↑ Adam Kredo (@Kredo0) Tweeted May 16, 2021: When the UAE is more pro-Israel and anti-Hamas than Democrats in Congress and the Biden/Obama admin. https://t.co/lYAf1YJ8Un ↑ "Anti-Israel Terrorists' ["Palestinian" or Hezbollah] Routine Use of its Own Population as Human Shields Since 1982." May 15, 2021. http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/267022 ↑ Jeremy Havardi, "Refuting the Anti-Israel Narrative: A Case for the Historical, Legal and Moral Legitimacy of the Jewish State," McFarland, 2016. ↑ Search: [14] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aidf.il+%22human+shields%22 . https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/site-search?q=Human+shields+ ↑ "Hamas Quietly Admits It Fired Rockets from Civilian Areas." Sep 12, 2014 — Throughout the seven- week conflict, Israel frequently charged that Hamas had been using schools, hospitals, and homes to fire . https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/380149 ↑ TEICH: Hamas' use of human shields is a war crime. May 14, 2021. https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/teich-hamas-use-of-human-shields-is-a-war-crime/wcm/8454ddb3-78f2-4dbb-aa65-60a7c93d4280/amp/ ↑ "Hamas is firing rockets from among civilians, targeting civilians." Israel's Foreign Affairs Min. Published on May 11, 2021. Hamas is firing rockets from civilian areas in #Gaza, deliberately targeting Israeli civilians. Israel is defending itself from Hamas' double war crime. The international community must condemn Hamas for its actions. https://youtu.be/9o0FFVHc3B4 ↑ ABC News, May 16, 2021: According to the IDF and UN reports, Hamas regularly uses apartment buildings as bases of their operations, positioning themselves near civilians for cover. ↑ Hamas rocket attacks against Israel ?! Cartoon: Behnam Mohammadi @Behtoons: That terrorist and Islamist organizations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and the godfather of all of them, ie the Islamic Republic of Iran in Iran, use the #human_ shield to protect themselves on the one hand and increase the number of casualties on the other. [May 14, 2021] ↑ UN researcher reports UN session on Israel that never happened - UN Watch. Feb 22, 2013. Nicola Perugini, a UN researcher in the Palestinian territories for UNESCO and UNIFEM... https://unwatch.org/al-jazeera-reports-on-un-session-that-never-happened/ ↑ 'Nicola Perugini, distorter, typical inciter.' Aug 9, 2020. http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/259883 ↑ https://www.theisraelgroup.org/post/anti-israel-editor-nishidani ↑ Yaakov Katz, "How the IDF invented 'Roof Knocking', the tactic that saves lives in Gaza." Jerusalem Lost, March 25, 2021. https://m.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/the-story-of-idfs-innovative-tactic-to-avoid-civilian-casualties-in-gaza-663170 ↑ Seth Frantzman @sfrantzman: Iron Sting is a 'networked precision fire system' – a mortar munition that employs laser and GPS to engage targets accurately and prevent collateral damage. Trials have been conducted successfully, concluding the system’s development. May 14, 2021 ↑ 'How Israel moves Gazan civilians out of the way of attacks on Hamas.' Israel uses phone calls and roof-knock munitions to evacuate Gazans ahead of airstrikes. "We select warheads with the necessary lethality to hit those who need to be hit and to reduce the impact on others," Israeli official explains. By Reuters and ILH Staff. 05-14-2021. https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/05/14/how-israel-keeps-innocent-gazans-safe-from-iaf-airstrikes/ ↑ 'More Accurate Better Bombs and Sparing Human Shields.' WSJ, August 10, 2018. A key reason for civilian casualties other than faulty intelligence or inaccurate ordnance: The deliberate use of civilians as human shields by terrorist groups. https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-accurate-better-bombs-and-sparing-human-shields-1533938542 ↑ Tim Marshall: "Iran’s influence is on full display in Gaza," May 13, 2021. https://reaction.life/irans-influence-is-on-full-display-in-gaza/ ↑ Matthew Gagnon: "The belligerent ignorance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez." The Maine Wire, August 24, 2018. https://www.themainewire.com/2018/08/belligerent-ignorance-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ ↑ Mathilde Frot: "Human Rights Watch 'Israel apartheid' report condemned as 'fiction'", The JC. Apr 27, 2021 https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/human-rights-watch-israel-apartheid-report-condemned-as-fiction-1.516093 Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl said the report was a "sham which puts rhetoric above fact." "They consistently ignore or downplay the fact that Israel’s security measures in the West Bank and around Gaza are the response to well-documented terror activities. The ridiculous ‘apartheid‘ slur in this report is belied by the fact that, as it stands, Israel’s next Government may well rely on the support of Arab parties, voted for by the country’s fully-enfranchised Arab citizens. "Israel’s Arab citizens have been appointed as ambassadors, professors, Supreme Court judges, hospital directors, and other key roles throughout Israel’s socio-economic landscape. Civil society organisations should be directing their efforts towards reinvigorating the peace process, not trading in false hyperbole that extends the cycle of conflict," she said. NGO Monitor president Professor Gerald Steinberg, also criticised the report writing in the Jerusalem Post that it comprised "the standard mix of shrill propaganda, false allegations and legal fictions." "Exploiting the 'apartheid' image for propaganda is a cynical appropriation of the suffering of the victims of the actual apartheid regime".. ↑ 'Israel Studies: IS. Volume 8. Indiana University Press, 2003. p.71 Moshe Shemesh: Did Shuqayri call for 'throwing the Jews into the sea'? ...'But in my estimation non of them will survive.' ↑ Arab Design for Israel's Annihilation, 1967, p. 10 28 May 1967, Ahmed Shukairy, Head of the Palestine Liberation Organization "China supplies us with weapons so that they be used for the liberation. The weapons of China which we have received free of charge will be put into action in order to destroy Tel-Aviv." ↑ Mideast Mirror, Arab News Agency, 1967, p. 18. June 3, 1967. ...on June 2. The demonstrators shouted slogans calling for Israel's annihilation and attacking western powers for supporting Israel. The main speaker at Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque here called for a "Jihad" (holy war) against Israel and her supporters, and delivered a special attack against the United States. After the prayers at Al-Aqsa, Mr Ahmed Shukairy, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) told those present: "We are living today a life of struggle and jihad. The hour has come and we are now in the field, approaching the battle day after day, hour after hour." ↑ "History's Worst Serial Abusers." December 8, 2014. Ahmad Shukairy, Husseini’s former aide, was the next leader of the Palestinians. In 1964, the Arab League appointed him to head the newly created Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Lebanese-born Shukairy was the first to hurl the apartheid slander at Israel even as he tirelessly advocated "driving the Jews into the sea." "We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants, and as for the survivors – if there are any – the boats are ready to deport them..." https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/historys-worst-serial-abusers ↑ "Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies, Cass books on the Middle East," Elie Kedourie, Professor of Politics Emeritus, Psychology Press, 1964, p. 189. Our sympathies were with the Axis powers being led by Hitler from victory to victory, and with our sympathies went our prayers for the victory of Germany and her allies, and defeat for Britain...'" ↑ Uri Milstein: The Truth About the War of Independence: Poor Preparations - Chapter 19 ... In the Chapter: Israeli Arabs Supported Nazi Germany in World War II... News1, Mar 13, 2015.. https://m.news1.co.il/Archive/002-D-100749-00.html ↑ "Palestine." Volumes 1-5. American Zionist Emergency Council, 1946, pp.1-2 (Palestine - Volumes 1-5 - Page v) Vol.2, No. 9, 10. November–December, 1945. Seeing that all those pogromists, rebels and Axis agents are now allowed to sit on the Arab Higher Committee, that one of them, Mr. Shukeiri, who fled from Palestine with the Mufti. ↑ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, Volume 107, Part 24. United States. Congress - U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. p.5735. ...he belonged to a group of fanatical extremists ed by the ex-Mufti. This gang cooperated with the Communists and prior to the Hitler-Stalin Pact sought in every possible way to sabotage the Allied war effort against the Nazis in the Middle East. However, when Soviet Russia joined the Allies, Shukairy's group split with the Communists and went all out for Hitler. ↑ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, Volume 110, Part 22, United States. Congress, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964, p. 524-5 Shukairy has had a remarkable history . As has been revealed... he worked with the Nazis in the Middle East and was a henchman of the notorious Mufti... ↑ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. United States. Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965, p. 456. Ahmed Shukairy, the self-proclaimed spokesman for the Arab refugees — a man who worked for the Nazis and their henchmen during World War II... ↑ The Detroit Jewish News. Friday, February 03, 1967. Page 9. Antiwar Group Warns Public of PLO Leader Shukairy. Dr. Albert Simard, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of World War Three warns of the "dangerous" background and activities of Ahmed Shukairy, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization who, he said, had expressed hatred of the West. Recalling the pro-Hilter activities "highest levels of government" of Shukairy when he was associated with the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Dr. Simard said, that the Arab terrorist leader "also played a most active role in keeping tensions white hot in the Middle East and inciting the Arabs against the West." ↑ "Behind the British Conspiracy." B'nai B'rith Messenger. 12 July 1946, p.6. https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/bbh/1946/07/12/01/article/47. Achmed Shukeiri, chief of the Arab Office, who reiterated in his conversation the words of Goebbels justified the murder of six million Jews of Europe "because Hitler could not have been all wrong..." ↑ "Facts." Volumes 15-17, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1963, p. 424. In 1962 at the U.N., Shukairy even went so far as to praise the militant, anti-Jewish and neo-Nazi storm-troop gang in Argentina know as Tacuara... ↑ Recall of Arab Delegate from U.N. is Sought; ‘saluted’ Tacuara JTA, December 3, 1962. ...endorsing an open neo-Nazi movement... ↑ The National Jewish Monthly, Volume 77, B'nai B'rith., 1962, p. 1. This was too much even for Saudi Arabia's king Faisal, who removed Shukairy from his UN post. https://books.google.com/books?&id=OjLnAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22removed%22 ↑ Lev Bezymenskiĭ: "Tracing Martin Bormann," 1966. pp.149-150 ... an armed underground nazi organisation in Argentina which called itself Tacuara.” This nazi organization... many of its instructors are former SS officers. Eichmann was under Tacuara protection. ↑ Beatrice D. Gurwitz, "Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt: Between the New World and the Third World." 2016, p.53 The most shocking event came in June, when Graciela Narcisa Sirota, a nineteen-year-old Jewish university student, was kidnapped and tortured by members of Tacuara. The abductors burned her with cigarettes, tattooed a swastika on her, and told her that the attack was “revenge for Eichmann.” ↑ "A response to David Grossman." By Amnon Lord. 08-05-2018 ... the first person to accuse Israel of being an apartheid state was Ahmad Shukeiri, a U.N. diplomat, in 1961 in the context of the Eichmann trial. https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/a-response-to-david-grossman/ ↑ Dan Diker and Olga Meshoe Washington, "HRW's condemnation of Israel: Apartheid appropriation, racism in name of 'human rights'?" 08 May, 2021. ...Even more far-reaching, PLO founder Ahmed Shukeiri exploited the Israeli apartheid libel well before Israel was forced to enter the West Bank and Gaza in the defensive 1967 war. https://www.news24.com/news24/columnists/guestcolumn/opinion-hrws-condemnation-of-israel-apartheid-appropriation-racism-in-name-of-human-rights-20210508 ↑ Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted: Hi AOC. I’m Yoseph, an Israeli Arab. I checked the definition of apartheid and you seem to be confused by the propaganda of this political org. Arabs like me have full equal rights and live, learn, work, and play together. Take it from me, I live it. Stop lying. [15] . OMG! After my video calling out @RashidaTlaib Emily comes and destroys the entire squad! May 15, 2021 ↑ https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/336519/israel-apartheid-the-big-black-and-white-lie/ ↑ https://cameraoncampus.org/blog/camera-on-campus-plans-to-disrupt-israeli-apartheid-week/ ↑ "Day of Rage" Rallies Demonize Jews, Israel.' Anti-Defamation League. Jul 10, 2020. https://www.adl.org/blog/day-of-rage-rallies-demonize-jews-israel ↑ Efraim Karsh, 'The Middle East’s Real Apartheid.' March 6, 2012. https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/03/06/the-middle-easts-real-apartheid/ ↑ https://canarymission.org/individual/Omar_Shakir ↑ "Human Rights Watch's Apartheid Report: Unsurprising Propaganda and False Lies." And that's the little problem with him. The big problem is his big resonance in the international press, eager for any indictment against Israel. Shlomi Ben-Meir, Presspectiva, May 9, 2021. ... according to the report, there is (almost) nothing Israel can do to not be considered an apartheid state in the eyes of HRW. Even if it withdraws from all territories, establishes a Palestinian state and removes restrictions over the Gaza Strip, the stain will continue to accompany it... ↑ Ophir Dayan: 'Shakir expulsion: The upper court is an important boundary mark.' November 9, 2019. https://www.israelhayom.co.il/opinion/705627. Shakir, who took up his current position in 2016, has been involved and invested in the Israeli-Arab conflict since his days as a student. While studying at Stanford University, he was president of the university's anti-Israel group, and even submitted a boycott proposal on behalf of Israel on its behalf, calling for the university to withdraw its investments from companies doing business in Israel. Even then, in 2013, members of the Student Council claimed that his remarks were full of "historical inaccuracies" and that they were an "attack on Israel in disguise." Upon graduation he began working at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he represented a professor fired from the University of Illinois for tweets such as "Scores have turned anti-Semitism from something terrible to something respectable since 1948." His hobby at the time was, by the way, lecturing at events of "Students of Justice in Palestine," one of the most extremist anti-Israel student organizations, who argue that the Palestinian state should cover the entire territory of Israel. From the beginning of its activity until today, he presents Israel as an apartheid state that carries out ethnic cleansing. ↑ "BDS in the USA, 2001-2010. Noura Erakat In: 255 (Summer 2010) ↑ Fact Sheet on Omar Shakir's BDS Campaigns » ngomonitor. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/fact-sheet-on-omar-shakirs-bds-campaigns/ ↑ HRW’s "Apartheid" Publication: Demonization, BDS, and Lawfare. April 25, 2021. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/hrws-apartheid-demonization-bds-lawfare/ ↑ Robbins: As left indulges Hamas, Palestinians & Israelis suffer. May 17, 2021 https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/05/17/robbins-as-left-indulges-hamas-palestinians-israelis-suffer/ ↑ Hannah Brown: "Gal Gadot, international celebrities speak out over Gaza crisis." Jerusalem Post, May 12, 2021. https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/celebrities-in-israel-around-the-world-speak-out-about-the-gaza-crisis-667969 ↑ WATCH: Israel’s Jon Stewart takes on John Oliver’s viral video. Lior Schleien May 21, 2021. https://forward.com/opinion/470025/watch-israels-jon-stewart-takes-on-john-olivers-viral-video/. Israeli comic, @ליאור שליין Lior Schleien , does a point by point rebuttal of John Oliver's viral video about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. https://youtu.be/ZGqc4BsAf40 ↑ Popular Israeli comedian Tom Aharon blasts John Oliver’s segment on the conflict. JTA, May 20, 2021 ↑ The total collapse of Jewish and Israeli PR. S. Boteach, JPost, May 19, 2021. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/the-total-collapse-of-jewish-and-israeli-pr-opinion-668512 ↑ Bari Weiss rails against AOC, the Hadid sisters and Dua Lipa after they all 'attacked Israel', Lauren Fruen for the Daily Mail, Nay 14, 2021. 'Memes have replaced morality': Bari Weiss rails against AOC, the Hadid sisters and Dua Lipa after they all 'attacked Israel' for defending itself against a 'genocidal terrorist organization'
Former NYT columnist used her blog to denounce the likes of AOC, the Hadid sisters and Dua Lipa for their comments in support of Palestine
Weiss writes: 'When it comes to Israel, memes have replaced morality'
She also blasted 'The Narrative' which she argues 'holds that all Hamas’s violence is the justified reaction to the original sin of Israel’s existence'
Weiss adds: 'The big-picture reason this is happening is that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are genocidal terrorist organizations that want to wipe Israel...off the map'
'The goal here is the eradication of the Jewish people,' she added
The Hadid sisters on Wednesday sparked a firestorm over an Instagram post that said Israel was not a country, but rather a land settled by colonizers
Dua Lipa - who is dating Anwar Hadid - shared the #SaveSheikhJarrah hashtag
'Squad' member Rep Ilhan Omar on Monday accused Israel of 'terrorism'; Reps AOC, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley advocated for Palestinians↑ Adam Milstein tweeted: Watch: Bill Maher absolutely destroys the prevailing anti-Israel narrative, calling out the hypocrisy of Instagram celebs like Bella Hadid, “Bella Hadid and her friends would run screaming to Tel Aviv if they had to live in Gaza for one day.” May 29, 2021 ↑ Bill Maher lashes anti-Israel supermodel Bella Hadid during fiery discussion over Gaza, James Gordon For Dailymail.com, 29 May 2021 ↑ 405.0 405.1 405.2 J. Slosser, "Dual careers of a Hamas Qassami: Children's program star and terrorist," INN, April 18, 2019. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/23748 The University of Hawaii at Manoa, perhaps unwittingly, helped conceal terrorist Mohammed Rafiq Alareer’s true role on Al-Aqsa TV, the Jew-hating role that made him famous in Gaza, as well as his “day job” as an al-Qassam Brigades soldier. The screen grabs below of Refaat and Shymaa were taken from a YouTube video produced when Shymaa was five years old: She asked “Dad, who created the Jews?” I could not answer her question. Unfortunately I did not have answer to it. In April 2014, Rafaat Alareer was on a book tour in the United States, promoting a book he edited, “Gaza Writes Back”. While he was in Washington DC, he was part of a group that met with Rep. Lujan-Grisham (D-NM) in her Washington, DC office.
↑ 406.0 406.1 Akiva Van Koningsveld, "New York Times Guest Essayist Refaat Alareer Compared Israel to Nazi Germany Over 100 Times" HR, Oct 19, 2021.
After our May 23 article on Tala Halawa, who tweeted that “#HitlerWasRight,” the reporter was promptly fired by the BBC. In August, our work on Mariam Barghouti, who contended that “Israel has been beating Hitler at his own game since 1948,” led to her effectively being blacklisted by the outlets that had previously disseminated her anti-Israel talking points.Today, we expose a pundit whose sheer volume of vile Judeophobic tweets towers over Halawa’s and Barghouti’s.
On May 13, at the height of the 11-day Hamas-initiated conflict against the Jewish state, The New York Times published a guest essay by Refaat Alareer titled, “My Child Asks...”
The article falsely alleged that the Israel Defense Forces hit targets in the Gaza Strip with “no strategic value,” while implying that Israelis “draw straws” or “roll a dice” to decide “which block to annihilate” — essentially promoting a modern-day blood libel.↑ The ugly nazi face of "Free Palestine movement" - Refaat Alareer, At DP, Oct 10, 2021. ↑ Jack Mendel, YouTubers accused of ‘deliberate incitement’ over Golders Green Palestine video, Jewish News, May 27, 2021. Mohammed Hijab and Ali Dawah, who have a million subscribers between them, shot videos of them asking Jewish people on Shabbat, to condemn Israel’s actions.↑ WATCH: An antisemitic Youtuber with over 700K followers get shamed by a Jew for hijacking Ukrainian suffering and making it all about 'Palestine'. Shame on you Ali Dawah (@AliDawah1) pic.twitter.com/1DhkaIhEvV— Israel Advocacy Movement (@israel_advocacy) March 6, 2022↑ Zachary Keyser, "Mia Khalifa calls Israel 'apartheid' while drinking Nazi-era champagne", JPost, June 1, 2021.
The post faced with widespread backlash, with many Twitter users - including some well-known journalists - pointing out that both alcohol and her former occupation as a porn star are illegal in Gaza, and would result in her immediate arrest or execution. "You’re drinking wine made in 1943 Nazi-occupied France, while denying thousands of years of Jewish history in our ancestral homeland," said Israeli writer and activist Hen Mazzig. "Glad you found the perfect pairing for your antisemitism!" One user noted that Israel, being the only democratic state in the Middle East, is the only country where Khalifa wouldn't be "stoned to death in the streets," regarding her past occupation and current lifestyle.↑ "Veena Malik declares she's devoting herself to Islam." The Daily Star, May 09, 2016. https://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/veena-malik-declares-shes-devoting-herself-islam-1221103 ↑ Gabe Friedman, "Pakistani movie star Veena Malik tweets Hitler quote about killing Jews." Jerusalem Post, May 13, 2021. ''I would have killed all the Jews of the world … but I kept some to show the world why I killed them," the Pakistani actress tweeted Tuesday. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/pakistani-movie-star-veena-malik-tweets-hitler-quote-about-killing-jews-668021 ↑ Pakistani politician praises Hitler for killing Jews, JC, May 24, 2021. A colleague from Imran Khan's ruling party calls for Jihad against Israel.A parliamentary representative of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party has praised Hitler for killing Jews and a colleague of the same party has called for Jihad against Israel as the only solution.
Discussing the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Pakistan National Assembly member Kanwal Shauzab said that Hitler was right to kill Jews and called for the use of nuclear weapons against Israel.↑ Bianna Golodryga and Emmet Lyons, Pakistan's top diplomat makes anti-Semitic remark during CNN interview about Gaza conflict, CNN, May 22, 2021 In a CNN interview that was supposed to focus on the United Nations finding a solution to the violence between Israel and Hamas, Pakistan's top diplomat Shah Mahmood Qureshi instead made an anti-Semitic remark.↑ Naftali Bennett בנט (@naftalibennett) Tweeted: My response to @bellahadid, @Trevornoah & @iamjohnoliver https://t.co/0oTjkwS6iz https://t.co/WC8BtC23t2 May 20, 2021. ↑ Aaron Reich. Zachary Keyser: "Bennett slams John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Bella Hadid on Israel criticism." JPost, May 20, 2021 . https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/bennett-slams-john-oliver-trevor-noah-bella-hadid-on-israel-criticism-668672 ↑ For the information of the Hadid sisters and their liberal friends: You have a responsibility to the harming of Jews Natasha Kirtziuk-Gutman, Ynet, May 25, 2021 ↑ Schanzer, Jonathan. Gaza Conflict 2021. United States: Armin Lear Press, Nov 10, 2021. ↑ Julia Marsh: "Andrew Yang apologizes for pro-Israel tweet after criticism from the left." May 12, 2021. https://nypost.com/2021/05/12/andrew-yang-apologizes-for-pro-israel-tweet/ ↑ Joshua Muravchik, "Making David Into Goliath. How the World Turned Against Israel." ( 2014). https://books.google.com/books?id=cN_GwAEACAAJ ↑ Black Lives Matter says it stands with Hamas terrorists in Israeli conflict. The battle between Israel and Hamas militants had killed at least 12 Israelis and 213 Palestinians as of Tuesday. By Michael Ruiz, Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/black-lives-matter-hamas-terrorists-israeli.amp The leading Black Lives Matter organization declared "solidarity with Palestinians" Monday, a week after Hamas terrorists in Gaza began firing a relentless barrage of rockets into Israel, indiscriminately shelling civilian targets as well as dropping some missiles short and blowing up buildings within its territory. ↑ Boaz Arad 博雅 @aradboaz: תמיד אפשר לסמוך על וייס ניוז שיתנו במה לארכי-מחבל על מנת לקדם את המיתוג של הקונפליקט הישראלי פלסטיני כמאבק בין לבנים לשחורים ולהשוות את מה שקורה בשייח ג׳ראח להריגתו של ג׳ורג׳ פלויד. סינוואר לוחץ על כל הכפתורים הנכונים של הסמול האמריקאי. You can always rely on Vice News to give a platform to arch-terrorists in order to promote the branding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a struggle between whites and blacks and to compare what is happening in Sheikh Jarrah to the killing of George Floyd. Sinwar presses all the right buttons of the American left. Jun 7, 2021 Asaf Yaari @asafy Replying to @aradboaz: שיספר איך מפלים אפרו-פלסטינים, למשל בעיר העתיקה בירושלים He should tell how Afro-Palestinians are discriminated against, for example in the Old City of Jerusalem. Jun 7, 2021 ↑ CAMERA http://www.camera.org ↑ Honest Reporting http://www.honestreporting.com ↑ http://www.standwithus.org ↑ American Jewish Year book, 1970, p. 399 BBC was again accused of bias in its presentation on Jewish and Israeli affairs... ↑ ‘BBC’ ranks third, after Iran and Hamas, on Wiesenthal Center ‘top 10’ anti-Semitism list, JNS, Dec 27, 2021. People might assume we would put neo-Nazi groups on our list, but the BBC is there because when a globally recognized organization allows anti-Semitism to creep into its reporting, it makes it all the more insidious and dangerous,” Wiesenthal Center founder and president R' Marvin Hier told the U.K. newspaper’s The Mail on Sunday.
“People around the world trust the BBC and rely on it for truthful reporting of world events,” he added.↑ Grete Heinz, Agnes F. Peterson, "The French Fifth Republic: Continuity and Change, 1966-1970: An Annotated Bibliography," Volume 1. Hoover Institution Press, 1974, p.53 Anti-Israel bias of 'Le Monde' is documented. ↑ Moshe Hogeg: "Israeli Arabs can not sit on the fence". 'Sports Hayom' 12/5/2021. https://www.israelhayom.co.il/sport/israeli-soccer/article/879572 . The owner of Betar Jerusalem is known as one who is not afraid to express his opinion. In parallel with .. the fight against racism... today (Wednesday) he took time to address the sensitive security situation in Israel... "It's also annoying to see our failure when it comes to global propaganda, how the hell our enemies manage to win the war on consciousness when they are the ones firing the missiles, trying to harm our citizens, using their own citizens as human shields and more succeeding in exposing themselves as poor Israelis. Just crazy..." ↑ HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) Tweeted: "Activists" @AssociatedPress. https://t.co/Jl6QYU0hR7 Aug 24, 2021 ↑ https://youtu.be/ffDoZrTtbhA ↑ 'The interviewer accused Netanyahu of setting fire; Bennett replied.' The interviewer of Palestinian descent on the NBC network accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of setting fire; Bennett replied. Channel 7, 8 Sivan 5781. May 20, 2021. https://www.inn.co.il/news/493146 (Ennett to MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin: "They are are out to destroy us." Then pointed to articke 7 of Hamas's constitution which talks about killing Jews.) ↑ Brendan O'neill: "Why won’t Israelis let themselves be killed?" The global woke loathing for Israel is taking an even darker turn. 12th May 2021. https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/12/why-wont-israelis-let-themselves-be-killed/ ↑ Facebook shuts down pro-Israel page with 77 million followers amid claims it had been targeted by radical Muslims posting hate speech," by Chris Jewers, MailOnline, May 19, 2021. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9595267/Facebook-shuts-pro-Israel-page-77-million-followers.html Facebook has shut down a pro-Israel page with over 75 million […] The 'Jerusalem Prayer Team' page, which was established in 2002 and was the largest Christian Facebook page, was shut down by the platform on Friday. ↑ Ksenia Svetlova, New Middle East Holocaust memory begins to seep into Arab countries, Zman, July 22, 2021. Violence broke out in Jerusalem and Gaza, and social networks in Arabic were filled with reactions such as "Hitler was [sic] right" and pictures of swastikas. Some of the responses were sent to cyberspace by bots. Many others were written by real people who grew up and were educated in an atmosphere of Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.↑ Netanyahu adviser: Condemn Hamas’ use of journalists as human shields. By Aaron Klein. May 16, 2021. The al-Jalaa building was believed to house Hamas operations but also contained offices for multiple news agencies. https://nypost.com/2021/05/16/netanyahu-adviser-hamas-using-journalists-as-human-shields/ ↑ Israel says Hamas jammed Iron Dome signals from destroyed media building AFP, Ynet, June 8, 2021. ...ambassador to the United States, Gilad Erdan, gave the most detailed explanation yet of the decision to strike the tower as he met the head of the news agency, Gary Pruitt, at its New York headquarters.... "The unit was developing an electronic jamming system to be used against the Iron Dome defense system," Erdan said, referring to the anti-missile shield that intercepts Hamas rockets...."In contrast, Hamas is a genocidal terrorist organization that has no regard for the press. It purposely places its terror machine in civilian areas, including in offices being used by international media outlets," he said. ↑ Chris Enloe, 'Israel reveals 'smoking gun' evidence proving Hamas worked in AP building; reporter contradicts AP president's claims.' The Blaze, May 16, 2021. https://www.theblaze.com/news/israel-reveals-smoking-gun-evidence-proving-hamas-worked-in-ap-building-reporter-contradicts-aps-president#toggle-gdpr . The former AP journalist revealed in a 2014 article for the Atlantic [16] that AP journalists knew about the presence of Hamas terrorists, explaining how Hamas uses the media to disseminate its narrative about the Israel-Palestine conflict. When Hamas's leaders surveyed their assets before this summer's round of fighting, they knew that among those assets was the international press. The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby—and the AP wouldn't report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas. (This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the AP's Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn't report it. (This also happened.) Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying. (This too happened; the information comes from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of these incidents.)
[Paul] Colford, the AP spokesman, confirmed that armed militants entered the AP's Gaza office in the early days of the war to complain about a photo showing the location of a rocket launch, though he said that Hamas claimed that the men "did not represent the group." The AP "does not report many interactions with militias, armies, thugs or governments," he wrote. "These incidents are part of the challenge of getting out the news—and not themselves news."Friedman also explained that Hamas knows "international coverage from the territory could be molded to its needs" and that reporters can "be intimidated when necessary and that they would not report the intimidation." What did Israel say? A source close to Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi told the Jerusalem Post [17] that Israeli officials provided the U.S. government with evidence to corroborate their claim that Hamas military assets operated from of the building. "We showed them the smoking gun proving Hamas worked out of that building," the source said. "I understand they found the explanation satisfactory." In fact, officials in multiple Israeli government agencies confirmed the call that took place between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday was to, in part, show American officials the intelligence confirming Hamas' presence inside the building...
↑ Kylie Atwood @kylieatwood: Sec State Blinken says the US has received some further info through intelligence channels from Israel regarding their strike on a building in Gaza over the wknd that housed journalist outlets, and which Israel said Hamas was using. He says he cannot comment on the intelligence. May 18, 2021 ↑ Blinken: Israel provided US secret justification for flattening AP building in Gaza. By Steven Nelson. May 18, 2021. https://nypost.com/2021/05/18/blinken-israel-gave-us-secret-justification-for-flattening-ap-building-in-gaza/ Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Tuesday said that Israel privately gave the US a justification for flattening a 13-story building in Gaza that housed the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera... Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council under former President Barack Obama, said that the building was long known as an operational center for the Islamic fundamentalist group. "I'm sure Hamas offices were in that building [and] that they purposely co-locate operations with civilians" Vietor wrote on Twitter. He added that "I talked to people who worked in the building." ↑ Lilac Sigan, 'It is the liberal agenda of the media that gives Hamas legitimacy for its actions.' Maariv, 30/08/2015 https://www.maariv.co.il/journalists/Article-495575 . The claim that the conflict should be reported only in terms of the injustices caused to the Palestinians by Israel and the unilateral accusations cause the population of Israel to go to the right and rule out the possibility of an agreement[...] If Hamas has a tremendous achievement, it is the unconscious mobilization of some of the media to help it. Hamas' deeds simply do not report. It is reminiscent of cases of domestic violence, when all the neighbors know what is going on but prefer to close their eyes, even though in this case the motives are completely different. This is the result of an agenda that is supposed to help the Palestinians. A similar thing is happening now as well. The level of reporting in the international media on trampling, stabbing, stones and Molotov cocktails is marginal, if at all. In the local media, the events are reported, but with the complacency of a bloody routine. We hardly hear about the incitement or interests behind this routine. During wars we tend to be amazed: how is it that the foreign media does not report on Hamas launchers that are in hospitals and schools? How can there not be talk of using civilians as human shields? The Channel 1 film about the BDS.. showed some Gaza residents agreeing to tell about the rule of animalistic government, the horrific violence and fear of death that keeps all Gazans silent.
But because of the "liberal agenda" in many media, not many people in the world know about it. This goes beyond the agenda, according to which the conflict should be reported only in terms of the injustices caused to the Palestinians by Israel. The rest are allowed to do to the Palestinians as they please, but that is simply not part of the story that is reported to the world.↑ Falling for Hamas’s Split-Screen Fallacy, Matti Friedman, The New York Times, May 16, 2018 ↑ Associated Press, Hamas Propagandists, David Harsanyi, NRO, May 17, 2021 ↑ Spencer S. Hsu: "Lawsuits by U.S. victims accuse top Qatar banks and charity of financing terrorism in Israel." Washington Post, Dec. 15, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/lawsuits-by-us-victims-accuse-top-qatar-banks-and-charity-of-financing-terrorism-in-israel/2020/12/15/4ebea7fe-244a-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html ↑ WATCH: Gazans Applaud Al-Jazeera Correspondent During Hamas ‘Victory’ Celebrations Joshua Klein, May 24, 2021 ↑ The problem with the New York Times’ Gaza coverage, Jake Wallis Simons, The Spectator, June 6, 2021. | Jake Wallis Simons: I wrote for @spectator about the gradual collapse of *that* emotive New York Times front page about the Gaza conflict — and what it says about how woke western journalists fulfil the agenda of Hamas.4:39 AM · Jun 6, 2021 ↑ Islamic terror outfit Hamas honours Al Jazeera for its ‘high professionalism’ during the recent Israel-Gaza clashes, " Opindia, 10 June 2021. ↑ Hamas Awards Al Jazeera for ‘Great’ Coverage of Latest War with Israel Freebeacon, Adam Kredo, June 10, 2021 ↑ Pakistan based CNN contributor Adeel Raja says world needs another Hitler amidst Israel-Palestine conflict, has history of anti-Semitic tweets. OpIndia Staff | 17 May 2021. http://www.opindia.com/2021/05/cnn-contributor-adeel-raja-adolf-hitler-palestine-israel-jews/ ↑ Tom Pappert: "Pakistan-Based CNN Contributor Tweets ‘The World Today Needs A Hitler’ Adeel Raja has been a freelance contributor for CNN since 2013, and appears to be based in Pakistan." National Life, May 16, 2021. https://nationalfile.com/pakistan-based-cnn-contributor-tweets-the-world-today-needs-a-hitler/ ↑ "Outrage after social media users discover series of Hitler-praising tweets from CNN freelancer. The tweet turned out to be one of many in which Raja has praised Hitler". By Cortney O'Brien | Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-adeel-raja-says-world-today-needs-a-hitler ↑ After a horrendously slanted video report titled, “Israel-Gaza: What Bella Hadid’s Stance Says About Changing Conversations” was posted to the BBC website, it emerged that the presenter, Tala Halawa, has made a number of clearly antisemitic and genocidal statements on social media. Perhaps the most objectionable tweet was posted in July 2014, and called Israel “more #Nazi than #Hitler” before going on to state, “#HitlerWasRight. HonestReporting Prompts BBC Investigation of ‘Hitler Was Right’ Journalist E. Miller, HR, May 24, 2021. The BBC has launched an investigation after HonestReporting helped bring to public attention numerous antisemitic tweets from one of its journalists, including a post which stated that “Hitler was right. ↑ Who is Tala Halawa? BBC journalist slammed for 'Hitler Was Better' tweet from 2014, Internet says 'sack her' By Alakananda Bandyopadhyay, May 23, 2021. ↑ investigating reporter who tweeted ‘Hitler was right,’ compared Israel to Nazis The BBC is reportedly investigating Palestinian digital journalist Tala Halawa for once tweeting that “Hitler was right” while comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. By Lee Brown | New York Post, Fox News, May 24, 2021 ↑ Tala Halawa and the progressive media’s anti-Semitism blindspot, Stephen Daisley, The Spectator, 24 May 2021 ↑ BBC investigating Palestinian journalist who tweeted 'Hitler was right' The Daily Telegraph, May 23, 2021. Digital journalist Tala Halawa, who works as a Palestine Specialist for BBC Monitoring, compared Israel to Nazi Germany in the same post ↑ 457.0 457.1 Adam Forrest, "BBC investigating journalist who tweeted ‘Hitler was right’", Independent, May 24, 2021. Public broadcaster taking social media posts from 2014 ‘very seriously’. One of Ms Halawa’s tweets from 2014, unearthed by the Honest Reporting media monitoring group, said “Israel is more Nazi than Hitler” – before adding: “Hitler was right.”...
Ms Halawa also responded to an Israel-based Twitter user, who had disputed Palestinian casualty figures, by saying: “ur media is produced by ur zionist government in order 2 produce ignorant people.”
The journalist is now working as a Palestinian affairs specialist for BBC Monitoring – part of the BBC’s World Service output – and has been covering the recent conflict in Gaza.↑ BBC Monitoring’s Tala Halawa whitewashes antisemitic chant. CAMERA UK, May 24, 2021. https://camera-uk.org/2021/05/24/bbc-monitorings-tala-halawa-whitewashes-antisemitic-chant/ ↑ “Palestinian Journalist Fired From BBC Over ‘Hitler Was Right’ Tweet Pins Blame on ‘Pro-Israel Mob,’”, Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, July 14, 2021. Halawa also accused the BBC of racism towards her, asserting that the criticism of her “seems familiar to me both as a Palestinian and as a woman of color.” ↑ Brian Bennet, "Exclusive: Iran Steps up Efforts to Sow Discord Inside the U.S., Time Magazine, June 7, 2021. ↑ Over 100 UNRWA teachers incite violence, antisemitism online - report, Jerusalem Post Staff, JPost, Aug 3, 2021. ↑ Israel rejects UNRWA chief’s ‘neutrality training’, demands Hitler-admiring teachers be fired, UN Watch, August 12, 2021 ↑ UNRWA finds attack tunnel under one of its Gaza schools. By Tovah Lazaroff June 6, 2021, JPost.com ↑ @KhaledAbuToameh UNRWA 'condemns the existence and potential use by Palestinian armed groups of tunnels underneath its schools (in Gaza) in the strongest possible terms It is unacceptable that students and staff be placed at risk in such a way.' Jun 5, 2021 ↑ Hamas prevents UN team from working near terror tunnel by school - report JPost staff, JPost, Aug 11, 2021 ↑ Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) Tweeted: "Israeli officials, speaking to Army Radio, deny any agreements have been reached with Hamas on the issues roiling Jerusalem, calling it ‘absurd and false.’ The ceasefire is free of any conditions, an official emphasizes." @TimesofIsrael May 20, 2021 ↑ Half an hour before the ceasefire takes effect - the barrages towards the 'envelope' area continue. The Political-Security Cabinet approved the ceasefire which is expected to begin at 02:00 - Heavy barrages towards the enveloping settlements - Residents are called to stay in houses - The tour driver who was hit by an anti-tank missile: “It was a miracle. About 30 soldiers got out of it a few seconds before the attack ". Our forces eliminated an armed anti-tank squad and attacked shafts of the Hamas terrorist organization. Aviel Weizman. (May 20, 2021). Channel 20 ↑ 1,500 targets, 4,360 rockets | Summary of the "Guardian of Walls" operation.' Israel Schiller | 10 Sivan 5781 (May 21, 2021). During Operation Guardian of Walls, some 1,500 (terror) targets were attacked with thousands of munitions. It was also reported that during the operation, about 4,360 attempts were made to launch at the State of Israel, of which about 3,400 crossed into the State of Israel, about 680 fell in the Gaza Strip and about 280 fell into the sea. ↑ 'Biden: No peace until Middle East nations recognize Israel's right to exist.' i24NEWS. May 22, 2021. "There is no change in my commitment to the security of Israel, period. No change at all," Biden said during a press conference at the White House along with his South Korean counterpart, Moon Jae-in. "My party still supports Israel," he insisted, and "let's make it clear: until the region unequivocally recognizes Israel's right to exist as an independent Jewish state, there will be no peace." "The change is that we still need a two-state solution. It is the only solution,"... ↑ Summary of Operation Guardian of the Walls: About 4,360 rockets were fired at Israel, about 20 senior Hamas figures killed, Maariv, May 21, 2021. ↑ An examination of the names of the fatalities in the IDF airstrikes during the first two days of Operation Guardian of the Walls reveals that most of them were terrorist operatives, The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. June 1, 2021 ↑ How Many Gaza Palestinians Were Killed by Hamas Rockets in May? An Estimate Dr. Alex Safian, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,081, June 27, 2021. ↑ Guardians of the Walls operation - Summary: May 21 2021, 19.05.2021. Since the beginning of, "Operation Guardian of the Walls," there were 797 people injured and 13 killed. The breakdown is as follows:
Due to terrorism from rockets, 357 received medical attention from MDA EMTs and Paramedics throughout the country. Of the 357, Hamas killed 10 with direct hits while another 2 later died in hospitals from explosion and shrapnel injuries. Shrapnel, rocket explosion blasts, and shattered glass injured 119. Of the 119, 7 were in severe condition, 13 in moderate condition, and 99 in mild condition. It is important to note that 226 of the 357 total people requiring medical attention following rocket attacks sustained injuries while finding shelter. The 226 injured while running to shelters included 1 in severe condition, 5 in moderate condition, and 220 in mild condition.
257 people required medical assistance from MDA teams whilst suffering from stress symptoms. Some required additional medical care.
196 people around the country required medical care from MDA due to the nation - wide riots. A 56 year - old man suffered a critical head injury from which he later died. Another 10 people were in severe condition, 30 in moderate condition, and 155 in mild condition.↑ Imshin (@imshin) Tweeted: 1/ They lie to us that mainly women and children killed in #Gaza. But the truth is that the overwhelming majority were #HamasTerrorists. Here are some of them. May 23, 2021 ↑ Hamas' Lies about Gaza Fatalities Unmasked By P. David Hornik, PJ, Feb., 18, 2009 ↑ NY Times Rebuts Itself on War Crimes and Hamas Casualties | CAMERA, May 20, 2021. Human rights researchers say Hamas strictly controls information about civilian deaths in Gaza to hide its losses and failures...
Which is to say, the numbers provided by the Hamas’s health ministry are far from “facts,” and we don’t actually know how many civilians were inadvertently killed in Israeli airstrikes. The group, moreover, has made clear its intent to deceive. During a round of fighting in 2014, Hamas issued guidelines to Palestinians in Gaza to call anyone killed a “civilian,” regardless of whether they were actually a fighter..↑ Ishaan Tharoor - HR ↑ Ishaan Tharoor - Camera ↑ Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, Abbas Refuses Israeli Blood Donation as IDF Resumes Bombing Gaza, JP, July 15, 2014. Israel tells Hamas, “Your wish is our command.”.. International media finally have begun given up playing as fig leaf for Hamas’ lies but still holds on to the last straw of Hamas’ phony figures of “civilian casualties”,” "A Washington Post foreign affairs blogger, Ishaan Tharoor, listed the names, ages, and places of death of the 83 Palestinian Arabs killed in the first three days of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge," JNS.org reported. A media watch group exposed the truth behind the deaths. "In a quick check of the first 24 names, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America's (CAMERA) Israel office found that one through three were Hamas members. Numbers five through 12 were individuals who rushed into a house previously evacuated after an Israeli warning,”?" it stated.
"Number 17 was a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, like Hamas a U.S.-designated international terrorist organization. The fatalities listed 18 through 22 were family members of his. And number 24 apparently was another terrorist, affiliation not confirmed."↑ Nevet Basker (@NevetB) Tweeted: @elderofziyon Update: IDF says 1,400 Iron Dome interceptions, and 680 rockets landed in Gaza. At 90% interception rate, that means 4½ times as many rockets hit Palestinian populated areas than Israeli ones. https://t.co/hTkbfbOnVe June 7, 2021 ↑ Doing the Math about Gazan casualties. According to the NY TImes, over 60 children under 18 were killed in Gaza. Except the numbers and featured photos make no sense. Op-ed. Victor Rosenthal, INN, Jun 09 , 2021. ↑ NGO Monitor on Twitter: New report: We investigated 50 incidents during the recent fighting in Gaza in which "human rights" organizations reported civilians killed. We have cross-referenced data, locations and statements and now we are showing that the "civilians" are in fact terrorists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad July 26, 2021 ↑ "Hamas’ Human Rights Violations in the 2021 Gaza War," Amelia Navins, Lenny Ben-David, JCPA, June 29, 2021. ↑ Speak Up for Israel, Hadassah, May 21, 2021 ↑ @YoniMichanie Tweeted: Imagine being so desperate to demonize the Jewish state that you use Palestinian children and members of the press to stage fake Israeli attacks against civilians. This is the sort of misinformation that not only perpetuates the conflict, but also fuels global antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/XsXqVx6mjV— Yoni Michanie (@YoniMichanie)December 4, 2021 -Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר (@emilykschrader) Tweeted Dec 4, 2021:Unbelievable - Palestinian children and press stage injuries for press coverage.↑ Yoni Ben Menachem: Yahya Sanwar Challenges Israel, Zman, May 28, 2021 ↑ UN condemns use of civilians as human shields, anti-Semitic terror, i24NEWS, Ynetnews, July 7, 2021. The United Nations on Wednesday passed a resolution condemning the use of civilians as human shields by terrorist groups, a strategy frequently used by organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah.The UN General Assembly adopted the resolution of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (GCTS), which was first approved in 2006 and is reviewed every two years. This year marked the seventh review of the document that prioritizes the counter-terrorism strategy of member states.
The international body also condemned anti-Semitic terrorism for the first time, as well as the use of the internet as a tool for the recruitment of terrorists.
↑ Lahav Harkov, "Israel critics comprise UNHRC’s permanent war-crimes probe." JPost, July 22, 2021. All three panelists have a history of activism and inflammatory rhetoric against Israel. ↑ Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) Tweeted: I know this is really going to shock all 3 of you who thought Israel was going to get a fair shake, but the 3 members of the UNHRC’s permanent war-crimes probe against Israel all have a history of inflammatory anti-Israel statements and activism. https://t.co/Aw91xA17jO July 22, 2021 ↑ Advocates committees against Israel, accused of massacre: Members of the UN Committee on the Guardian of the Walls. Itamar Eichner, Ynet, July 23, 2021. The former UN human rights commissioner, who was responsible for setting up anti-Israel committees and publishing the Goldstone report, will chair the committee investigating events last May. A research institute announced that the other two committee members also had an anti-Israel past. According to the NGO Monitor research institute, the committee members are senior UN officials with a history of anti-Israel activity, extremist statements and ties with the Palestinian government and a number of Palestinian organizations that have been feeding the anti-Israel commissions of inquiry into the data for years. ↑ Southern Israel under Gaza rocket fire for first time since May war Israeli military confirms one rocket had been launched from the enclave, which was intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system; attack came a day after Gaza factions said Israel is not fulfilling its obligations following end of 11-day war. Ynet, Aug 16, 2021 ↑ First launch from the Gaza Strip since the end of Operation Guardian of Walls. View documentation from the city of Sderot. Hamal, Aug 16, 2021