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| | That wasn’t good enough for the BBC anchor, who persisted in his assertion that Israel’s actions had been disproportionate and provocative. | | That wasn’t good enough for the BBC anchor, who persisted in his assertion that Israel’s actions had been disproportionate and provocative. |
| | And that’s when Hassan-Nahoum sounded like she’d had enough and sought to set the record straight: | | And that’s when Hassan-Nahoum sounded like she’d had enough and sought to set the record straight: |
| − | “Let me tell you something. I am the head of tourism for the city of Jerusalem, and I consider Haram al-Sharif holy to Jews and holy to Muslims. And we are so sensitive [to Muslim concerns] that by Israeli law Jews aren’t allowed to go and pray at Haram al-Sharif. There is freedom of worship for everybody in this city except for Jews who want to pray on the Temple Mount. That’s how sensitive we are.”</blockquote></ref> | + | “Let me tell you something. I am the head of tourism for the city of Jerusalem, and I consider Haram al-Sharif holy to Jews and holy to Muslims. And we are so sensitive [to Muslim concerns] that by Israeli law Jews aren’t allowed to go and pray at Haram al-Sharif. There is freedom of worship for everybody in this city except for Jews who want to pray on the Temple Mount. That’s how sensitive we are.”</blockquote>פלר חסן נחום Fleur Hassan-Nahoum @FleurHassanN Tweeted: |
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| | + | My @BBC interview https://youtu.be/fON2xpENZ1o via @YouTube to clarify all the misinformation going around about the Friday riots.</blockquote> |
| | + | [https://twitter.com/FleurHassanN/status/1515697286562594817 Apr 17, 2022] |
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| | + | Well, first of all the rioters who entered the al-Aqsa Mosque started doing property damage inside the mosque, and the Israeli police came in to stop the damage they did... |
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| | + | When someone throws a five-pound rock at your head, I'm not sure you can say that the Israeli police fired the first shot... |
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| | + | And we are very, very sensitive to it, so much so that under Israeli law Jews are not allowed to pray in a harem to a sheriff, so there is freedom of worship for everyone in the city, except Jews.] |
| | + | </ref> She added: Well, first of all the rioters who entered the al-Aqsa Mosque started doing property damage inside the mosque, and the Israeli police came in to stop the damage they did... When someone throws a five-pound rock at your head, I'm not sure you can say that the Israeli police fired the first shot... |
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| | And as usual, on top of it all, adding fuel to the fire, a radical left wing anti-Israel org. pushes a [[Pallywood]]y lie, such as on a terrorist firing at Jews from within their mosque.<ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/740165.shtml Incitement and Fake: A left-wing organization distributes documentation of a terrorist firing fireworks from a mosque on the Temple Mount as if it were a police officer firing into the mosque.], ''Rotter'', Apr 21, 2022.<blockquote> | | And as usual, on top of it all, adding fuel to the fire, a radical left wing anti-Israel org. pushes a [[Pallywood]]y lie, such as on a terrorist firing at Jews from within their mosque.<ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/740165.shtml Incitement and Fake: A left-wing organization distributes documentation of a terrorist firing fireworks from a mosque on the Temple Mount as if it were a police officer firing into the mosque.], ''Rotter'', Apr 21, 2022.<blockquote> |