Category: Israel-MidEast Issues

West Bank: Report on Hate and Bigotry by Shapira and Elitzur

Jewish Daily Forward: “Rabbinic Text or Call to Terror?”
— Article reports on extremist views reporting on anti-human rights views of Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar:
— Daily Forward reports on Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar’s statements that:
— “‘The prohibition ‘Thou Shalt Not Murder” applies only ‘to a Jew who kills a Jew,’ write Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar. Non-Jews are ‘uncompassionate by nature’ and attacks on them ‘curb their evil inclination,’ while babies and children of Israel’s enemies may be killed since ‘it is clear that they will grow to harm us.'”

The Daily Forward also reports that “Previously, Israel has arrested settler rabbis who publish commentaries supporting the killing of non-Jews.”

Responsible for Equality And Liberty stands by our universal human rights and condemns supremacist hate of ANY kind, including the comments referenced in this article by the Rabbis.

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Israel: Settler Teen Arrested Over West Bank Kfar Yasuf Mosque Arson

— Haaretz reports: “Settler teen arrested over West Bank mosque arson”
— “Israel Police on Thursday arrested a settler teen suspected of involvement in the torching of a West Bank mosque three weeks ago.”
— “The teen, whose parents and grandfather were killed in Palestinian terror attacks, was arrested at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank.”
— “The vandalism at the mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf drew harsh rebuke from Israeli leaders, among them politicians and clergy. During the attack, the vandals torched books of the Koran and prayer carpets, and scrawled Nazi slogans in Hebrew across the walls.”
— “Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger visited the mosque following the attack to express his condemnation.”
— “‘I came here to expression my revulsion at this wretched act of burning a place holy to the Muslim people,” Metzger told the residents after he was escorted into the village under the protection of the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian police. “This is how the Holocaust began, the tragedy of the Jewish people of Europe.’ ”
— “A delegation of West Bank settlers, led by renowned peacemaker Rabbi Menachem Froman, brought copies of the Koran to the village to replace those lost in the fire.”

December 11, 2009: West Bank: Media Reports Allege Israeli Settlers Responsible for Arson Attack on Kfar Yasuf Mosque

NYT: "On Friday, Palestinians inspected the damage done to a mosque that was set on fire in the West Bank village of Yasuf." (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
NYT: "On Friday, Palestinians inspected the damage done to a mosque that was set on fire in the West Bank village of Yasuf." (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

West Bank: Media Reports Allege Israeli Settlers Responsible for Arson Attack on Kfar Yasuf Mosque

West Bank: NYT – “Officials Blame ‘Extremist’ Settlers for Arson Attack on West Bank Mosque”

— Jerusalem Post: Vandals set fire to Kfar Yasuf mosque
— “Palestinian sources say radical settlers responsible for damage done to place of worship in W. Bank”

— Palestinians: Settlers burn Kfar Yasuf mosque

— London Times: “Settlers burn Koran in mosque attack as reprisal for Israel’s freeze on expansion”

— Netanyahu to officials: Catch ‘criminals’ behind mosque attack
— Haaretz: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday ordered Israel’s security branches to find the “criminals” who vandalized a mosque in a West Bank village, joining other Israeli leaders in condemning the incident.”
— “The assailants torched furniture at the mosque, in the village of Yasuf, and sprayed Nazi slogans in Hebrew on the premises. They are suspected of being settlers protesting Israel’s temporary freeze on new construction in West Bank settlements.”

— INN: “Arabs Stone Chief Rabbi at Village of Torched Mosque”

Gaza: Tens of Thousands of Islamic Jihad Supporters Call for Destruction of Israel

Gaza: Thousands of Islamic Violent Extemism supporters gather at Gaza rally
— Jerusalem Post reports:
— “Tens of thousands of Islamic Violent Extemism loyalists held a rally in Gaza on Friday to commemorate the group’s slain founder.”
— “Holding plastic models of rockets and wearing masks and mock suicide bomber’s vests, the members chanted ‘death to Israel’ and ‘Muhammad’s army will be back to wipe off the Hebrew state.'”

Simon Wiesenthal Foundation: “Fire UN Officials Refusing to Teach the Holocaust in Gaza”

Simon Wiesenthal Foundation: “Fire UN Officials Refusing to Teach the Holocaust in Gaza”

— August 31, 2009: BBC: “The UN, which runs most Gazan schools, recently asked local groups whether the Holocaust should be taught.”

— August 31, 2009: Hamas “Spiritual Leader” calls Holocaust “a lie”

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