Nashville, Tennessee media WKRN is reporting that a 29-year-old white male attacked a movie theater in Antioch, TN, with a hatchet and a gun, spraying chemical pepper spray on those in the theater, while he wore a mask. Three people were injured and he injured one man with his axe. The man was shot by police after they wore gas masks and entered the theater, while the terrorist sought to flee out the back door.
He had two backpacks which were “hoax bombs” intended to delay police while he escaped.
Scene of Theater Attack in Antioch, TN (Source: WKRN)
On August 4, 2015, two white male terrorists are being sought in connection with shootings at a U.S. military group at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center in Mississippi, which reportedly was part of “Jade Helm 15” training exercise. The men got off a number of gunshots at U.S. military from outside the camp, but there are no reported injuries.
The men were believed to be driving a maroon Ford Ranger truck reportedly with “broken arrow” message on top, which has been found.
They remain at large, however.
The phrase “broken arrow” is a coded phrase used as a military signal asking for help “when a unit or camp is overrun.” Those with information regarding the incident, are asked to contact the Perry County authorities at 601-964-8461.
In a related case on August 1, 2015, the FBI arrested three men in North Carolina for developing bombs as part of their planned opposition to the “Jade Helm 15″ training exercise. The FBI reports that ” 50, Christopher James Barker, 41, of Gastonia, and Christopher Todd Campbell, 30, of Mt. Holly, NC ., were arrested on Saturday, August 1, 2015, for conspiring to violate federal laws governing firearms and explosive devices and related charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.” ABC reported that “On June 18 law enforcement received information that Litteral and Barker were attempting to make explosives.”
“White Nationalists” and other extremist groups, such as the “American 3rd Party” have been inciting the public that the military training exercise operation is a plan to take over America.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) seeks to promote a consistent stand in support of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for all people. These universal human rights include the dignity and security of our fellow human beings. This is specifically stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) Article 3 “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person” and in Article 1 “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” This is what the nations of the world have agree to for over 60 years.
The challenge for those who respect such human rights is to hold the world accountable to these declarations, including the challenge to the Nazi Eugenics based concept of “organ harvesting” from those whose lives the Nazis felt had “life unworthy of life.”
R.E.A.L.’s support for such universal human rights and dignity has included past R.E.A.L. campaigns to protest the sales of body parts from prisoners in Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled China, including reports of body parts obtained from prisoners of conscience who follow the Falun Gong practice, a practice that the CCP-controlled Chinese totalitarians view as “body part harvesting.” R.E.A.L. promotes petitions to call for the end of such organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitoners.
On the issue of such “organ harvesting” of the Falun Gong, transplant doctor Tom Treasure has written: “If Matas and Kilgour are correct, the organs come from incarcerated members of an innocent sect—and the perpetrators are of necessity medical practitioners. As the allegation unfolds, the story seems horrific to the point of being almost beyond belief. So alarmed was I on learning of this allegation that I struggled to make sense of it. The element of the story that horrifies me most, if it is true, is that it is my medical colleagues, the doctors, who perpetrate these acts.”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Calls for the CCP and All Chinese Doctors to Reject the CCP Demands for Organ Harvesting on Chinese Prisoners, End Such Killings for Organs and Atrocities, and to End the Crimes Against Humanity Perpetuated against Falun Gong Practitioners (Photo: NDTV file photo)
The challenge of body part sales of those who do so unwillingly by force, as well as those impoverished and desperate individuals who are forced by extreme economic oppression, is an issue which people of conscience must consider in respecting our shared universal human rights.
For context, we must remember that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), signed on December 10, 1948, by the nations of the world, including the United States and China, was a response to atrocities by the Nazi Germans during World War II.
The UDHR begins with noting that such “disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind.” These barbarous acts have included Nazis committing experimentation on live bodies, as well as the murder of children, Russians, political prisoners, and Jewish people for their body parts.
Dr. Tom Treasure writes that: “In the 1930s the first steps on the road to the holocaust were taken—and they were taken with the complicity of doctors. How this came about merits attention for, if we do not recognize the facts and understand how it happened, how can we guard against it happening again?”
As reported by Emily Bazelon, “The Max Planck Society admitted that its collection contained the tissue of euthanasia victims—including 700 children.”
The Nazis provided body parts from the Holocaust to medical institutions throughout Europe. Reports have recently surfaced of such body parts of victims of the Holocaust turning up in France, as they have appeared in collections of human body parts and specimens throughout Europe. On July 19, 2015, the Independent reported that the “remains of 86 Jewish Holocaust victims used for human experiments by Nazis found hidden in Strasbourg lab” in France.
Emily Bazelon reports that “In June 1945, a Boston neurologist named Leo Alexander, a consultant for the United States secretary of war, visited Julius Hallervorden, a doctor and member of the Nazi Party who in 1938 became head of the neuropathology department of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research (one of the world’s pre-eminent psychiatric research centers, with a building financed in the 1920s by the Rockefeller Foundation). Hallervorden showed Alexander a collection of 110,000 brain samples from 2,800 people. Hallervorden said that with the director of his institute, Hugo Spatz, he had harvested the brains of victims of the T-4 killings—the Nazi program to gas psychiatric patients at six “euthanasia’ centers in Germany and Austria. ‘Hallervorden was present at the time of the killings and removed brains from the murdered victims,’ Seidelman writes. Alexander reported what he learned, but no one took action against Hallervorden and Spatz. They were allowed to help relocate the Kaiser Wilhelm institute to Frankfurt, Germany, where it was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.” (and where it continues to exist today).
German Nazi Doctors Hallervorden and Spatz were involved in Nazi atrocities in studying the brains of euthanasia victims from the Holocaust
In describing his concern about modern day organ transplants from Chinese victims, Dr. Tom Treasure recounts that the Nazi actions against human dignity and defiling of bodies (living and dead) to rob them of their organs, began with the idea that some human beings do not deserve the universal human right of life. He writes that “Their state was captured in the German phrase lebensunwertes Leben meaning ‘life unworthy of life'”.
But the process of removing the body parts and organs of the powerless and the poor has been with us much longer than the Nazi violence, and we have seen it as part of the history of white supremacy in the United States – either directly or indirectly.
Emily Bazelon has also reported: “In the United States, medical students robbed graves, often of African-Americans. ‘In Baltimore the bodies of colored people exclusively are taken for dissection because the whites do not like it, and the colored people cannot resist,’ a British travel writer observed in 1838. When paupers were the target of body snatching, the practice was justified by their poverty. ‘Why would those who have made war on society or have been a burden to it be permitted to say what shall be done with their remains?’ the Washington Post asked in an 1877 editorial. ‘Why should they not be compelled to be of some use after death, having failed to be of value to the world during life?’ ”
Reports on “Night Doctors” stated African-Americans were killed by some doctors to be used for dissections. In one report, Johns Hopkins Hospital was believed to be a source of “needle men” and the “black bottle men” (poisons given to African-Americans so that they could die and be used in dissections.) They were thought to kidnap African Americans right off the street. A woman from the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks states that “You’d be surprised how many people disappeared in East Baltimore when I was a girl. I’m telling you, I lived here in the fifties when they got Henrietta, and we weren’t allowed to go anywhere near Hopkins. When it got dark and we were young, we had to be on the steps, or Hopkins might get us.”
People around the world from impoverished countries continue to face a new type of slavery – moving from slavery of labor to their organs. Such slavery and persecution of the bodies of the powerless and impoverished is a rejection of our shared universal human rights.
If we support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), then we must reject the concept of racial, fascist, or other oppressive powers who decide that the lives of some are “not worthy of life.” This universal human right is not for some lives, but for all lives of our fellow human beings. It is a fundamental human right agreed to by the nations of the world.
We must consistently reject the idea that such powerless individuals’ bodies can be used to “harvest” their organs without their consents and as part of social and economic oppression of minority groups.
In the United States, yet another aspect of this ethical challenge to human rights of life and human dignity is being reported. The American news media is currently reporting on a breaking news story regarding the Planned Parenthood organization in Houston, Texas, where it is alleged that videos are being released which indicate that that some members of this organization sought compensation for fetal tissue from fetuses who were aborted. Planned Parenthood, which performs many functions to help women, denies this allegation. The current reporting on this breaking story has been based on the type and focus of compensation, with some stating the compensation was for logistics, as the selling of fetal tissue for profit is illegal (42 U.S. Code § 289g–2). The latest story is currently being reportedly largely by political groups on one side or another. But these issues must be considered not as a matter for political debate, but as larger issues for human rights debate. Without question, our universal human rights includes the support for women and all of their rights, including their right to have control over their body.
Regardless of outcome of this specific incident (still under investigation), those in support of our shared universal human rights must affirm that organ harvesting of those without a say in the matter is yet a different matter. Where we respect life as a universal human right, this provides a common moral compass to assess whether such actions respect the integrity and dignity, as part of our common universal human rights.
Given what we know of the history of human rights abuses regarding organ trafficking and body parts, human rights activists must hold medical organizations to a standards that respects the value of human life, human dignity, and that understands the amoral path that organ trafficking of the powerless leads our society.
If we support consistency in our universal human rights, we must be watchful for the idea that we have the right to decide for others whose “‘life is unworthy of life.”
Regardless of their race, philosophy, religion, economic status, and ability to defend their life and their body, their universal human rights must be defended.
White city leaders of the Maryland shore town of Pockomoke City held a meeting on August 3, 2015 to defend their actions in firing African-American police chief Kelvin Sewell. In addition, according to the AP, “The Justice Department sent community affairs representatives to a church gathering to listen to residents’ concerns.” The AP reported that there were “sharp exchanges between audience members, the mayor and Councilman George Tasker, who was accused of referring to supporters of Sewell as ‘you people.’ ”
Chief Sewell has stated that he was fired on June 29, 2015, because he refused demands by Pockomoke City Mayor Bruce Morrison, the city manager, and the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office that he fire two fellow African-American police officers who filed complaints saying they had been treated unfairly. The other two African-American police officers, Franklin L. Savage and Lt. Lynell Green, had EEOC complaints that they were working in a hostile, racist working environment.
The Washington Post states that “The officers alleged in complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that they faced racism that was overt and rampant — allegations the city denies. Among the incidents alleged: a food stamp superimposed with President Obama’s face that was left on a black detective’s desk and a text message that read, ‘What is ya body count nxxxx?’ ”
Andrew G. McBride, co-counsel for the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, told the Washington Post that “This is one of the most egregious cases of primary racial discrimination and retaliation for assertion of rights before the EEOC that I’ve seen.” “Chief Sewell has a fantastic record as a police officer. He was terminated because he stood up for two African American officers who filed an EEOC complaint.”
“Its current troubles began three years ago when detective Franklin L. Savage was detailed to the Worcester County Criminal Enforcement team. The eight-member task force was made up of officers from Ocean City, Dorchester County, Maryland State Police and Pocomoke City. Savage was the only African American assigned to it. Savage said that during his two years on the task force, he was consistently subjected to racism and discrimination, including the repeated use of the ‘n-word’ and references to the Ku Klux Klan. In December 2013, he walked outside for a lunch break and found a bloody deer tail on the windshield of his unmarked police car, he said in his EEOC complaint. A group of white officers stood nearby, laughing. Four months later, he alleged, the food stamp with Obama’s face superimposed on it was left on his desk. Savage, now 35, reported the incidents to his supervisor, but he said the behavior did not stop. ‘Each day I went to work, I felt hurt, ashamed and confused. Racism still exists,’ Savage said. ‘And we took an oath to do the right thing each day.’ The Maryland State Police Criminal Enforcement Division eventually found that Savage’s complaints against one corporal were justified and promised in a letter that the offender would be punished.”
“Last year, Savage returned to the Pocomoke City police department, where he said the harassment and discrimination continued. Savage said he was stripped of his title of detective and moved to administrative duty, checking computer serial numbers and clearing old files. He filed a complaint with the EEOC on July 21, 2014. Lt. Lynell Green said the harassment against him began after he attended a mediation session in support of Savage. ‘It all started when I stood behind Detective Savage,’ said Green, 49, who said his overtime pay was cut. ‘I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life.’ Green, a former Baltimore police officer who began working for Pocomoke City in 2011, filed an EEOC complaint March 15. ”
“During this time, Sewell said he was being pressured by Mayor Bruce Morrison, the city manager and the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office to fire the officers. Sewell filed an EEOC complaint March 9 and was fired after a 4-to-1 vote by the city council three months later.”
AP reports that “Diane Downing, the lone black member of the five-person council and sole vote against firing Sewell, said city officials and outside authorities wanted Savage fired because he could not be trusted after filing his EEOC complaint and would not be allowed to testify in court cases.”
Parts of the Maryland shore have been known for a greater tolerance of racist behavior and support for police brutality. We know the majority of people respect human rights and dignity, and we urge them to continue to speak out against such abuses. R.E.A.L. challenged the views of a Wicomico sheriff’s office in June 2015.
Father James Channan, O.P., the former Vice Provincial of the Dominican order in Pakistan, is director of the Dominican-run Peace Center in Lahore, Pakistan, and provided an interview to a Catholic charity on the conditions of persecution of minority Pakistan Christians. In that interview, when asked about the number of Pakistan Christians imprisoned for blasphemy, he stated: ” there are 130 Christians whose trials are proceeding.” He also made clear that this cruel and unjust “blasphemy law” was regularly abused as “a tool to settle business disputes or personal vendettas.”
Father Channan also reported that this blasphemy law is also used against Muslims (who are the vast majority of Pakistanis), with 950 Muslims charged with blasphemy (as R.E.A.L has also reported on). He clarified however that: “there is a big difference between accusations of Muslims and Christians: if one Muslim is accused, just one Muslim is accused. But in the case of a Christian being accused, an entire community, an entire neighborhood is accused. And in several cases the entire Christian village or a Christian neighborhood has been burned to ashes.”
Pakistan is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) ratified as of June 23, 2010, as well as a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Pakistan religious oppression of minorities, such as its repressive Blasphemy Law is in direct contradiction to its international agreement of ICCPR Article 18, which includes “1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.”
We urge all – in Pakistan and around the world – to be responsible for equality and liberty.
A terrorist attack against Palestinians has led to the death of a 18 month old baby and the injury of 3 others in the West Bank town of Duma, near Nablus. The child murdered in the terrorist attack was named Ali Saad Dawabsha. Current reports state that his four-year-old brother of the Dawabsha family is being treated; the boy is in critical condition.
18 Month Old Palestinian Baby Ali Saad Dawabsha – Murdered in West Bank Terrorist Attack
The child’s parents and four-year-old brother were flown by helicopter to an Israeli hospital where they were said to be in serious condition and the four-year old child is in critical condition. In addition to the attack on the Dawabsha family house, a second house in the Duma village was also set ablaze, but no one was at home. One Duma resident said that he saw two masked terrorists outside the houses.
Graffiti on Remains of House after Terrorist Attack
This was another of the West Bank “Price Tag” terrorist attacks. The New York Times’ Isabel Kershner writes that the so named “Price Tag” terrorist attacks are from extremists among West Bank Israeli settlers who “exact a price from local Palestinians or from the Israeli security forces for any action taken against their settlement enterprise.” CNN reports that: “A preliminary investigation shows suspects entered the village at night, set homes ablaze and sprayed graffiti on them.”
Aftermath of Duma”Price Tag” Terrorist Attack on Palestinians by Israeli Settler Extremist Terrorists – Described by Israel Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon as “Jewish Terrorist” Attacks
Israel’s Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu stated “This is a terrorist attack. Israel takes firm action against terrorism, no matter who its perpetrators are.” He also stated “I have ordered the security forces to use all means at their disposal to apprehend the murderers and bring them to justice.” He also described this as a “terror attack in every way.”
Remains of Burned Palestinian Home by Terrorist Attack (Source: Times of Israel/AFP)
After visiting the 4 year old brother of Ali Saad Dawabsha who is in critical condition, PM Netanyahu stated: “It is difficult to stand next to the bed of such a boy when you know his young brother was murdered and you ask, ‘Why was this terrible deed done?’ Terrorism is terrorism is terrorism. We will catch the murderers and bring them to justice.”
Mourning for the Murder of 18 month old child Ali Dawabsha, during funeral (AP)
Israel Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon referred to the terrorist attack and the death of baby Ali Dawabsha as “a most severe terrorist act that we cannot tolerate, and we condemn in every way.” Israel Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated that he would not tolerate “Jewish terrorist” attacks, and stated that “We will not allow Jewish terrorists to harm the lives of Palestinians across Judea and Samaria. We will fight them in every way, with every tool at our disposal.” He sent out his condolences to the Dawabsha family and requested restraint from the public “to allowing security forces to carry out their mission of capturing the murderers.”
Knesset Member Yair Lapid stated that : “Terrorists entered at night and set fire to a baby. As always, the IDF is going to war against the enemy. Only this time the enemy is from here, from inside, from within us. ” “They are traitors to all that is sacred to us, traitors to the very idea on which the State of Israel was founded, traitors to Judaism.”
The U.S. Department of State condemned this “vicious terrorist attack.”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has posted a listing of over 130 “Price Tag” terrorist attacks. The Israeli government needs to recognize such “Price Tag” terrorism as the hate crime terrorist acts that they are, and not continue to dither whether such attacks are “terrorism” or not . This monstrous terrorist attack on this Palestinian family in Duma needs to be the wake up call for Israel to change its policies. It is past time for the Israel government to fully recognize such West Bank terrorist attacks as “terrorism” so that the appropriate resources and legal mechanisms can be put in place to act on such terrorism. There have been hundreds of attacks on homes, mosques, churches, and individuals by such terrorists, who MUST BE STOPPED. Last month in June 2015, R.E.A.L. also reported on such a “Price Tag” terrorist attack on a Christian Church in Galilee; once again people were arrested but then let go by the Israeli authorities. It is past time for the Israeli government to be firm in the arrest, conviction, and punishment of such terrorists.
The West Bank has been the scene of hundreds of “Price Tag” terrorist and vandalism attacks on Palestinians, Palestinian homes, Islamic mosques, Christian churches, and even on other Jewish facilities. These attacks have also called for the death of identity groups, with painted slogans such as “death to Arabs,” “death to Christians.” Terrorists have used firebombs and other tools to regularly commit arson during these attacks. Such West Bank “Price Tag” terrorist attacks, so named because terrorist extremists among West Bank Israeli settlers “exact a price from local Palestinians or from the Israeli security forces for any action taken against their settlement enterprise.” The July 31, 2015 terrorist attack in Duma, resulted in the death of an 18 month old baby, Ali Saad Dawabsha.
18 Month Old Palestinian Baby Murders in West Bank Terrorist Attack
The U.S. State Department’s Country Reports on Terrorism routinely reject such “Price Tag” acts as part of terrorism. The 2013 U.S. State Department stated: “attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian residents, property, and places of worship in the West Bank continued and were largely unprosecuted.” The 2014 U.S. State Department report stated the majority of such attacks “did not result in prosecutions.” The report stated: “Attacks by violent extremists – both Israelis against a joint Arab-Israeli school and Palestinian residents, property, and places of worship, and Palestinians against Israelis – in Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank continued. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin spoke out against extremist violence and “price tag” attacks (property crimes and violent acts by extremist Jewish individuals and groups in retaliation for activity they deemed to be anti-settlement) on multiple occasions, as did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” It continued that ” legal cases against violent extremists responsible for “price tag” attacks began making their way through the Israeli judicial system, although investigations by the Israeli authorities in the majority of such attacks did not result in prosecutions.”
In response to the July 31, 2015 terrorist attack in Duma, Israel’s Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu stated “This is a terrorist attack. Israel takes firm action against terrorism, no matter who its perpetrators are.” He also stated “I have ordered the security forces to use all means at their disposal to apprehend the murderers and bring them to justice.”
In January 2014, however, the Times of Israel reported that a key Israeli government cabinet committee rejected a bill that aimed to define “Price Tag” attacks as acts of terrorism. Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) urges the full Israeli government recognize the terrorist nature of such “Price Tag” attacks. According to the Times of Israel, the January 2014 bill was “several months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck down a recommendation by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch and the Shin Bet security services to apply the designation of terror to Price Tag assailants.”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) views all such terrorist attacks as an attack on our Universal Human Rights, shared by all people around the world. The terrorist attacks on houses of worship are a direct attack on our shared human rights of freedom of worship. We note that Israel government regularly rejects such terrorist attacks, and has arrested individuals responsible for some of these attacks.
In addition to R.E.A.L.’s previous reports on West Bank “Price Tag” terrorism, there has been over 130 documented “Price Tag” terrorist and vandalism attacks, although research indicates the number is higher. We provide the following listing which is sourced from Wikipedia research:
List of West Bank “Price Tag” Vandalism and Terrorist Attacks on Palestinians (since 2008)
2008 Attacks
1. 23 July 2008 – 20 settlers attack the Palestinian village of Burin, smashing cars and windows and cutting electricity wires, after the IDF evacuated settlers from a residence-bus in the illegal outpost of Adei Ad.
2. October 2008 – After government attempts to evacuate outposts, settlers unleashed a dog against an Israeli company commander, broke the hand of a deputy battalion commander and punctured the tires of a vehicle of a reserve soldier.
3. 4 December 2008 – After Israeli police evacuated settlers from Beit HaShalom in Hebron, settlers said they would implement a price tag policy, and three Palestinians, including a father and son, were wounded by gunfire, 12 others injured and 15 cars torched. Follow-up incidents in which settlers threw stones at road junctions, fired and vandalized Palestinian property, cut down olive trees, and slashed vehicle tires occurred in at least 12 other locations throughout the West Bank later that day.
2009 Attacks
4. 1 June 2009 – Settlers blocked the main Qalqilya-Nablus road near the Qedumim settlement and stoned and assaulted Palestinian drivers trying to remove the debris, injuring 6, after a cell-phone alert had circulated the evening before warning that the Israeli army was about to evacuate the Ramat Gilad outpost, located east of the Qarnei Shomron settlement in the Qalqilya Governorate. Settlers also set fire that day to roughly 1,300 olive trees and 280 dunums of wheat and barley crops belonging residents of Palestinian villages along Road 60 between the Qedumim and Yitzhar settlements. No evacuation was carried out.
5. 20 July 2009 – After a few uninhabited structures in 3 settlement outposts in the Ramallah and Nablus governorates were removed by Israeli authorities, from over 1,000 to 1,500 olive trees belonging villagers from Tell, Madama, Burin, Asira al-Qibliya and Jit were destroyed. Cars were stoned, junctions blocked, two Palestinian motorists were injured, and six vehicles damaged near Nablus in an attack attributed by Palestinians to settlers from Yitzhar.
6. 23 July 2009 – Connected to the events 3 days earlier, over 20 armed settlers from an outpost near Yitzhar entered the village of Asira al-Qibliya and hurled stones at the villagers. When the villagers responded with stones, Israeli security forces arrived, fired sound bombs and teargas at them, resulting in the injury of one Palestinian boy.
7. 9 September 2009 – After Israeli forces removed the temporary structures in the outpost of Ramat Haregel in the Hebron Governorate, more than 10 settlers from the Israeli settlement of Susiya, went to the neighbouring Palestinian village of that name, hurled stones and physically assaulted the villagers, resulting in injuries to 15 members of a family, including 10 children. After Israeli forces intervened, the settlers returned to Susiya, none were detained, and the outpost was reconstructed that night.
8. 14 October 2009 – Some 200 olive trees belonging to the village of Al Mughayyir, were felled by settlers from the illegal settler oupost at Adei Ad, near Shvut Rachel.[12]
9. 9 December 2009 – The Hasan Khadr Mosque at the village of Yasuf near Salfit was burnt, with ‘price tag’ slogan written on the wall. In January 2010, several settlers from the Yitzhar settlement were arrested as suspects.
2010 Attacks
10. April 2010 – Settlers torched three Palestinian vehicles in Huwara near Nablus.
11. 4 May 2010 – Settlers torched the main mosque of the al-Lubban al-Sharqiyya village, its extensive carpets and Korans, south of Nablus.
12. 12 May 2010 – Fundamentalist settlers torched an 11-Dunam olive orchard in al-Rababa valley, in Silwan, destroying 3 300-year old trees in the grove and damaging many others.
13. May 2010 – Settlers from Asfar burned more than 200 trees belonging to Palestinians from the village of Sa’ir, near Hebron.
14. 25 July 2010 – In retaliation for the government’s demolition of two caravans and a goat pen at Givat Ronen, settlers embarked on a price tag mission involving protests, road blocks and an attempt to torch an open field. One villager of Burin was injured in clashes with the settlers, and four settlers were wounded, one seriously.
15. 16 August 2010 – 250 olive trees in the villages of Kosra and Jaloud, near Nablus, were uprooted by settlers from Shvut Rachel, according to an official of the PNA.
16. 3 October 2010 – Arsonists, suspected of coming from Gush Etzion, set fire to rugs, defaced a Koran, and scrawled ‘revenge’ on the walls of the mosque of Al Fajjar/Beit Fajar, near Bethlehem.
17. 13–14 October 2010 – Two vehicles, owned by a Palestinians were set on fire in Qusra, and branded with a ‘price tag’ slogan, according to B’tselem.
18. 15 October 2010 – A 500-dunam olive grove by the village of Farata was firebombed by settlers from the wildcat Jewish settlement of Havat Gilad as part of a price tag operation. According to eyewitness Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann, who notified authorities as the arson attack got underway, Israeli soldiers prevented fire trucks from entering to put out the blaze for an hour, and local Palestinians asking for their assistance were themselves detained for three hours.
19. 19 October 2010 – Rabbis for Human Rights reported a girls’ school at As-Sawiya was broken into, and a schoolroom burnt.
2011 Attacks
20. Hebrew text in Qusra mosque, after “price-tag” attack by settlers, in September 2011.
21. Hebrew text on the wall of the Qusra mosque, after “price-tag” attack by settlers, in September 2011.
22. 27 February 2011 – In a price-tag operation against the evacuation of Havat Gilad, settlers threw molotov cocktails at a house in the village of Huwara.
23. 28 February 2011 – Dozens of windshields of Palestinian cars were smashed in Hebron in retaliation for the recent evacuation of Havat Gilad.
24. 4 March 2011 – Settlers from Shvut Rachel damaged roughly 500 olive trees belonging to the village of Sorra, near Nablus, and stoned homes, apparently in reprisal for the dismantling of several mobile homes.
25. 17 March 2011 – 5 to 7 Jewish men, using a metal pipe and tear gas, assaulted two Palestinian labourers renovating a house on the edge of the settlement of Shiloh. A Jewish security guard protecting them was also injured slightly.
26. 6 June 2011 – A mosque was defaced and damaged in Al Mughayyir, near Ramallah
27. 25 July 2011 – Settlers torched the farmlands of the village of Sorra, after Israeli soldiers intervened to stop Israeli peace activists from preventing a group of settlers from uprooting trees, according to IMEMC.
28. 5 September 2011 – Settlers torched the mosque of Qusra, south of Nablus.
29. 7 September 2011 – Unknown perpetrators slashed the tires and cut the cables of 12 army vehicles at an IDF base, in retaliation for the demolition of 3 homes at the illegal settlement of Migron.
30. 8 September 2011 – Settler youths made an attempt to deface the mosque of the village of Yatma, near Rechelim and Kfar Tapuach, in the Nablus Governorate in a price tag assault.
31. 9 September 2011 – Graffiti slogans in Hebrew were sprayed on the Amir Hassan mosque in Birzeit and over a wall of the Birzeit University near Ramallah. The graffiti said:”Mohammad is a pig” and “death to Arabs.”
32. 11 September 2011 – house of a left-wing activist in Jerusalem defaced with graffiti proclaiming “death to the traitors” and “price tag Migron”
33. 25 September 2011 – Roughly 100 olive trees felled in the village of Doma south of Nablus, in a suspected price-tag action.
34. 28 September 2011 – A grove of 45 olive trees uprooted near Hebron, apparently in reprisal for the death of a settler and his son.
35. 3 October 2011 – Burning of a mosque at the Bedouin town Tuba-Zangariyye in the North District of Israel.
36. 5 October 2011 – Settlers Uprooted 200 Olive Tree at Qusra, near Nablus.
37. 7 October 2011 – Two cemeteries – one Christian and one Muslim – in Jaffa desecrated with far-right graffiti, including “price tag” and “death to Arabs.”
38. 11 October 2011 – The Yitzchak Rabin memorial in Tel Aviv was desecrated, when a vandal sprayed the words “price tag” and “release Yigal Amir” on the memorial.
39. 25 October 2011 – 20 trees from an olive grove at Beit Safafa owned by an Arab family of Jerusalem uprooted, with a price-tag sign posted nearby.
40. 30 October 2011 – Vandals torched an Arab restaurant in Jaffa, and, according to a Tel Aviv-Jaffa city council member, the phrases “price tag” and “Kahane was right.” were scrawled on its walls.
41. 7 December 2011 – Arsonists tried to set fire to the mosque of the Palestinian village of Burkina, near the settlement of Ariel, and also torched two Palestinian vehicles, in a suspected ‘price tag’ assault.
42. 13 December 2011 – 50 settlers and right-wing Jewish activists broke into the Efraim Regional Brigade Headquarters near the settlement of Kedumim, damaging military vehicles, torching tires, hurling Molotov cocktails and throwing rocks. An IDF spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai however refrained from using this term for the incident, noting that IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz hasn’t used it for some time, and said that it needed to be defined correctly.
43. 13–14 Dec 2011 – Arsonists torched the Nebi Akasha Mosque in Jerusalem marking the burial site of an Islamic prophet, Akasha bin Mohsin, in a suspected price tag action.[50]
44. 14–15 Dec 2011 – Arsonists defaced and torched the mosque at the Palestinian village of Burqa near Nablus, The slogans “Mitzpe Yitzhar” and “War,” scrawled on the mosque suggest this was a ‘price tag’ retaliation for the dismantlement of the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Yitzhar conducted earlier by the IDF.
45. 18 December 2011 – Hate slogans and the signature ‘price tag’ defaced the walls of the mosque of Bnei Naim, east of Hebron.
2012 Attacks
46. 56 price tag attacks, the majority against Palestinians, took place in Jerusalem alone over 2012. Suspects were arrested for 12 such incidents, though not all of them were indicted. Some 623 price-tag related cases were investigated, involving 200 arrests and the filing of 123 indictments.
47. 5 January 2012 – In what police described as a ‘price tag’ attack, a Palestinian car-wash Shuafat was set on fire, and a GMC minivan and a truck belonging to Palestinians also incinerated.
48. 11 January 2012 – A mosque at the West Bank Palestinian village of Dir Istiyya was defaced with graffiti, reading ‘Price tag’ and ‘Gal Arye Yosef’ (an illegal outpost, demolished some days earlier, near Itamar),’ in Hebrew, and three cars nearby were torched.
49. 16 January 2012 – Mohammad Ghannam, brother of Ramallah’s governor, Leila Ghannam, had his car torched outside Deir Dibwan village near Ramallah in a possible price tag operation.
50. 7 February 2012 – In Jerusalem, a Jewish-Arab bilingual school, a symbol of coexistence, in which half the students are Jews and half are Arab, and the 11th-century Monastery of the Cross administered by the Greek Orthodox church were defaced with graffiti saying “Death to Arabs”, “Kahane was right” and “Death to Christians” as well as “price tag”. The two incidents, suspected of being ‘price tag’ attacks carried out by Jewish extremists,were later attributed to two Bedouin youths, who confessed to the acts.
51. 20 February 2012 – Vandals daubed “Death to Christianity”, “Jesus is dead,” and “Mary was a prostitute” [59] on the Jerusalem Baptist Narkis Street Congregation church, and slashed the tires of several cars parked in the compound. The acts were countersigned by price tag graffiti.
52. June 8, 2012 – The tires of 14 cars were slashed and graffiti, including ‘death to Arabs,’ ‘revenge’, ‘Kahane was right,’ ‘regards from Havat Gilad,’ Ulpana neighborhood,’ and ‘price tag’, painted over the vehicles of residents of the Jewish-Arab village of Neve Shalom.
53. 19 June 2012 – The ‘Grand Mosque’ the West Bank village of Jab’a was set alight and sprayed with the graffiti, ‘The war has begun’, and ‘price tag’, apparently in response to the evacuation of the Jewish settlement at Ulpana.
54. 1 August 2012 – A Palestinian family in Sinjil, between the settlements of Shiloh and Ma’aleh Levona found plastic containers of benzine under their pickup truck, and a graffiti in Hebrew: “Don’t you touch the lands” written on it.
55. 23 August 2012 – Unidentified assailants, described by local Palestinians only as settlers wearing kippot, tried to torch two cars, after writing graffiti on them, in the West Bank village of Awarta.
56. 27 August 2012 -A car was torched, and others sprayed with graffiti reading “Price Tag”, “Migron”, “death to the enemy”and “Revenge to Arabs,” at Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah overnight after reports that settlers were in the area.
57. 4 September 2012 -. Graffiti reading “Jesus is a monkey” were sprayed on a Christian monastery, and its door was set on fire, at Latrun in a suspected price tag attack for the evacuation of Migron. In late June, 2013, police arrested a Bnei Brak resident on suspicion that he had been involved in the incident.
58. 3 October 2012 -The entrance to the Church of the Dormition on Mount Zion was sprayed with graffiti that read “Jesus, son of a bitch, price tag.”
59. 22 October 2012 – A car was set on fire and graffiti, reading ” price-tag Susia ” and “regards from Meir Ettinger.” sprayed on the entrance to a village in the Hebron area.
60. 25 November 2012- 8 Palestinian cars in Shuafat were vandalized with price-tag slogans that read:’Gaza Price Tag’.
61. 3 December 2012 -3 youths were arrested while endeavoring to vandalize property at the West Bank village of Samu’a, after apparently torching a car and spraying price-tag graffiti in the nearby town of ad-Dhahiriya.
2013 Attacks
62. From January to November 120 price tag attacks against Arabs in the Binyamin /al-Bireh area of the north West Bank, leading one Israeli security official to state that these acts might have a destructive impact by motivating Palestinians to engage in terror. Whereas no Israeli had been killed in 2012, 4 had been murdered as of November, 2013. From January to June 2013 165 cases involving price-tag attacks were opened, some 76 suspects were arrested and 31 indictments were filed.
63. 1 January 2013 Graffiti “Price tag. The only good Arab is a dead Arab. Vengeance for Yitzhar,” and “This time on buildings, next time on humans,” were sprayed on the village of Beit Umar, near Hebron.
64. 3 January 2013 According to Palestinian, in a village south of Nablus, four cars had their tires slashed, with the words “Solidarity with Esh Kodesh” (an Israeli outpost), and a Star of David spray-painted on a nearby wall.
65. 5 February 2013. Two cars were set on fired, and graffiti, reading ‘”Jewish blood is not cheap. Tapuah is Kahane.”, ‘sprayed on a nearby wall, at Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah. Both the IDF and B’tselem assume the act was a price-tag incident. The slogan may refer to an incident in which a Jewish boy was knifed at Tapuah Junction, nearby where, at Kfar Tapuah, many followers of Meir Kahane live.
66. 14 February 2013. Price-tag” vandals, protesting demolitions at the Israeli outpost outpost of Ma’ale Rehav’am in the West Bank, targeted an historic Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem by spraying Jewish stars and price tag slogans on 10 Muslim gravestones.
67. 18 February 2013 At Palestinian village of Yasuf near the settlement of Kfar Tapuah the tires of three cars were slashed and a wall daubed with the slogan “price tag, stone terror”, according to local villagers by a carload of settlers.
68. 21 February 2013.Jewish extremists reportedly vandalized 6 cars, torching 4 of them, in the village of Qusra, according to B’tselem. IDF confirmation was lacking due to safety concerns over entering the village, but the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad condemned both the incident as a “price tag” attack and also the IDF’s demolition of electricity poles in Qusra a day earlier. Israeli Police later concluded the attack had been ‘staged’ by Palestinians based on forensic evidence as well an Israeli ID card, reported lost by a soldier, which Palestinians claimed to find at the scene. B’tselem replied that the police report was ‘the quickest police investigation ever’
69. 6 March 2013. A Mevaseret Zion resident was arrested, while caught in the act, for vandalising Palestinian cars, and spraying “death to Arabs,” in an industrial park in the Shiloh settlement near Jerusalem.
70. 8 March 2013. In Alsawiyah, near Tapuah. seventy-five olive trees were cut down to stumps. Another twenty-one mature olive trees were clear-cut. “Price Tag” was sprayed in the area, as well as illegible scrawlings, possibly “Non-Jewish Terrorism.”
71. 7 April 2013. Vandals defaced two mosques, and slashed the tires of several cars in the Palestinian village of Tekoa, reportedly in retaliation for stone-throwing incidents, and in revenge for injuries from stoning sustained by a baby at the settlement of Ariel in the preceding month.
72. 22 April 2013 Overnight 15 Palestinian cars were torched in separate incidents ascribed to ‘price tag’ vandals. 11 of the cars were set alight in Deir Jarir, destroying four completely. No graffiti were found but local Palestinians blamed the vandalism on settlers.
73. 23 April 2013. Four vehicles owned by an Israeli-Arab were put to the torch at Akbara, a village near Safed. Graffiti reading “don’t touch our girls price tag,’ were found nearby.
74. 24 April 2013 After a burglary of an Arab residence in Tel Aviv, graffiti reading “Death to Arabs” “Go away” and “Price tag” were found on the door of their apartment.
75. 30 April 2013. Settlers entered the village of Beit Ilu and sprayed “price tag” graffiti on one of the homes.
76. 13 May 2013. Three cars were torched near a mosque at the village of Umm al-Qutuf in Wadi Ara. The mosque wall was defaced with graffiti reading “price-tag” together with a Star of David and “Eviatar,”
77. 15 May 2013. It was reported that, some days earlier, vandals set fire to two cars in the village of Nein, near Afula, spraying price tag graffiti
78. 23 May 2013 . Price-taggers targeting Arabs also damaged Jewish property when five cars, three belonging to Arabs, two to Jews, in Gilo Jerusalem suffered tire-slashing, and “price tag” was sprayed nearby.
79. 29 May 2013. In a wave of attacks, five cars in the village of Zubeidat northeast of Jericho, and four in the village of Marj en-Naaja, were torched and sprayed with graffiti reading “30 days since Evyatar – may God avenge his death.” Two cars were torched and sprayed with a similar sign at the village of Rantis, west of Ramallah. In Jerusalem, seven car had their tires punctured, four of the seven at French Hill, and three at the entrance to Shuafat. The graffiti read “Jewish blood is not cheap”.
80. 30 May 2013. The tires of three cars were punctured in Beit Ilo with graffiti reading, “revenge”, and on a nearby wall, undersigned with “price tag” the words “regards from Baruch Tzuri to Eviatar”, alluding to a Yitzhar settler stabbed to death by a Palestinian at Tapuah Junction near Nablus on April 30.
81. 30 May 2013. Jerusalem’s Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion was sprayed, for the second time in several months, with graffiti reading ‘Jesus is a monkey’, and the tires of two cars parked there were slashed, apparently in retribution for the dismantling of an illegal outpost, Havat Ma’on.
82. 12 June 2013 On several Orthodox Christian tombs the words “Price tag,” and “revenge” were sprayed, at a Christian cemetery in Jaffa. Allusions were also made to two Bat Yam synagogues defaced with Nazis symbols in May.
83. 13 June 2013. Vandals set fire to two cars in a Sheikh Jarrah parking lot, in a price tag act police believe was racially motivated.
84. 18 June 2013. ‘Arabs out’ graffiti were sprayed and tires of 28 cars slashed at Abu Ghosh. One of the damaged vehicles belonged to former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg.
85. 22 June 2013 The tires of 21 Palestinian cars were punctured and slashed at Beit Hanina, accompanied by the graffiti, ‘We do not keep silent over stone-throwing’ and the Star of David.
86. 19 August 2013. The hallway of the Beit Jamal Monastery near Beit Shemesh, run by the nuns of the Sisters of Bethlehem, was firebombed and the slogans “price tag,” “death to the Gentiles,” and “revenge” were sprayed on its walls.
87. 22 September 2013. 8 cars of Palestinian residents in the Sheikh Jarrah sector of East Jerusalem were vandalized by tire-slashing and spray painting of price tag slogans.
88. 29 September 2013. Vandals damaged seven vehicles of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, near the Tomb of Simeon the Just scratching them with keys and a screwdriver, the second incident in a week suspected to be undertaken as revenge attacks on Palestinians for Israel’s policy on the West Bank. Two Jewish teenagers were subsequently arrested on suspicion of involvement.
89. Police arrested 4 Jewish youths, two identified as Hilltop Youth, in the act of smashing 15 gravestones in the Christian cemetery near King David’s Tomb in Jerusalem in order to prevent a fully-fledged ‘price tag’ attack from being carried out.
90. 1 October 2013. Vandals slashed the tires of 5 vehicles along Ma’ale HaShalom road, and sprayed ‘price tag policy’ on a nearby wall in Jerusalem’s Old Quarter, near the house of a Palestinian family who were granted a stay of eviction from their home by the Israeli Supreme Court. It was the fifth such episode over the week.
91. 10 October 2013. The Palestinian elementary school of Jalud was attacked, reportedly by some 20 settlers, five cars owned by the teachers were damaged, and then the village’s olive groves were set on fire, causing damage to 400 trees.
92. 10 October 2013. A mosque in the West Bank Palestinian village of Burqa was defaced with a slogan reading “Redemption of Zion loves Tomer Hazan,” and three cars were set on fire in what is suspected to be a “price tag” attack. Tomer Hazan referring an IDF soldier murdered in Qalqilyah in September.
93. 14 November 2013. A Palestinian home in the West Bank village of Sinjil was set alight, with 5 Palestinians suffering from smoke inhalation. Half the house was destroyed. The owners attributed the act to four settlers. On one of the walls, the slogan “Regards from Eden, Revenge” was painted. It is suspected it was a price tag assault partially to avenge the murder of a 19 yr old IDF soldier, Eden Attias, at Afula, earlier.
94. 19 November 2013 Two vehicles were torched and Stars of David were sprayed painted on the walls of the Palestinian village of Farata. In February 2014 three settlers from the West Bank outpost of Gilad Farm were arrested for an alleged responsible for the incident. On December 1, 2014 two residents of Havat Gilad,Yehuda Savir and Yehuda Lansberg, were convicted for the crime, after entering plea-bargain in which they gave evidence against a third accomplice, Binyamin Richter, in exchange for 30 months in prison and no fine.
95. 8 December 2013. The mosque of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in Israel was defaced by graffiti reading “Mohammed is a pig,” “mutual responsibility,” “Terror stones”, and “regards from Boaz and David Chai”, while the windshields of 5 nearby cars were shattered. Boaz and Chai refers to two settlers whose movements have been restricted by the IDF.
2014 Terror Attacks
96. A steep rise in attacks occurred after April 2 following the demolition of illegal outposts in the Yitzhar settlement, with some 16 hate crimes taking place in little over a month, as compared to 17 registered in the preceding three months. From January through to mid May, the Israeli police unit for nationalist crimes, has opened 78 new files, arrested 102 suspects and served 37 indictments.
97. January 31, 2014, graffiti on a Palestinian house outside Ma’ale Levona. “Jews Wake Up!”, “Death to the Arabs”, “Revenge!”
98. 6 January 2014. Palestinians in Qusra, after seizing, beating and releasing to the IDF a group of 14/15 Jewish teens and young adults, identified as extremist hilltop youths, alleged they had been throwing rocks at local farmers tending their fields and that had entered the village to carry out a “price-tag” attack. Settlers maintain the group consisted of hikers who were seized and forced to go to Qusra, where they were lynched and almost killed.
99. 7 January 2014. Cars were burnt and price tag graffiti, reading “Esh Kodesh”, “revenge”, and a Star of David, were sprayed in Madama, a Palestinian village south of Nablus.
100. 8 January 2014. 30 fruit trees were cut down in a Palestinian garden center next to Kfar Qassem. The site was blazed with the slogan “Regards Eish Kodesh.”
101. 15 January 2014. A mosque in the village of Deir Istiya near Ariel was set fire to, and the slogans “Arabs Out”,”Hi from Qusra’ and “Revenge for spilled blood in Qusra” sprayed on its walls.
102. 30 January 2014. Vandals smeared graffiti on a synagogue affiliated to progressive Judaism at Ra’anana. The graffiti referred to those who ‘rise up against God’ and cited a passage in Maimonides that asserts renegades, heretics and deniers of Torah have no place in the world to come, unless they repent. Commentators interpreted this as a price tag attack.
103. 9 February 2014.16 cars have their tires punctured and anti-Arab graffiti reading ‘Arab labour’, ‘Enough of assimilation’, were sprayed in the Ein Ilouza neighbourhood of Silwan.
104. 11 March 2014. 19 cars in the Israel Arab town of Jaljulia had all their tires punctured, acid thrown on the vehicles and walls of newly built houses defaced with graffiti reading “Every Arab is a criminal” and “God is the King” in Hebrew, in what is described as a price tag attack.
105. 24 March 2014. The tires of 34 cars were slashed in a suspected price tag attack in the Arab suburb of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem. It was the second such attack on the area within a year. Graffiti reading “Goyim in Israel = Enemies” was sprayed on a nearby bus.[124]
106. 1 April 2014 The tires of four cars were slashed and on the walls of the Catholic monastery at Deir Rafat village, close to Kibbutz Tzora near Beit Shemesh. The graffiti read “America is Nazi Germany”, “Price Tag”, “Jesus is a monkey” and “Mary is a cow.”
107. 3 April 2014. The slogan ‘ “Only goys [non-Jews] can be driven out of our land,”‘ was spray-painted on a wall and the tires of 40 cars were slashed in the predominantly Christian Israeli village of Jish in what Elias Elias, head of the Gush Halav Regional Counci, described as ‘price tag’ damage.
108. 18 April 2014. The door of the Abu-Bakr Al-Siddiq mosque at Umm al-Fahm was set alight and a slogan reading ‘Arabs out’ scrawled on its wall.
109. 28 April 2014. The tires of several local cars were slashed, and the Star of David, and an exhortation to ‘Close mosques, not yeshivas’ were sprayed on a mosque in the Israeli Arab town of Fureidis. It was, according to the head of Tag Meir (Spreading the Light) Gadi Gvaryahu, the 31st case of a house of worship in either Israel or the West Bank being subject to desecration since 2009.
110. 29 April 2014.The tires of an Israeli Arab’s car were slashed, and the doors painted with the Star of David, when the man left his car parked in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Yokneam, the sixth such incident in the town in a month. An admirer of the ideas of Rabbi Meir Kahane was arrested on May 7 on suspicion of having damaged Arab cars in the town.
111. 4 May 2014. The tires of a car belonging to an Arab resident of Acre were slashed while it was parked at Ein HaShofet, and the vandals drew a Star of David together with “price tag” on one of the tires.
112. 5 May 2014. A column outside the Office of the Assembly of Bishops at the Notre Dame Center in East Jerusalem was smeared with a graffito in Hebrew:”Death to Arabs and Christians and all those who hate Israel”.
113. 5 May 2014. Graffiti reading “price tag” and “Kahane was right” were sprayed on the walls of Arab property at the Israeli town of Kiryat Ye’arim.
114. 7 May 2014. A Druze had the windows of his dentistry practice scrawled over with the slogans “Death to Arabs” and “Greetings to Fureidis, Price Tag,” in Yokneam.
115. 9 May 2014. Graffiti reading ‘Price tag, King David is for the Jews, Jesus is garbage’ were sprayed on the walls of the St. George Romanian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem.
116. 16 June 2014.The tires of an IDF military vehicle transporting toilets were slashed in an apparent price tag incident at the Yitzhar settlement.
117. 19 June 2014. A Haifa Arab-Israeli school was defaced with “price tag”, “Death to Arabs” and invective against Knesset member Hanin Zoabi, and signs of an incendiary attempt were also visible.
118. 23 June 2014. Three cars in al-Ashqariya neighborhood of Beit Hanina had their tires punctured, another four were deflated, with slogans “revenge” and “every Arab is the enemy” sprayed on them. Palestinian sources say 12 cars and a school bus were affected.
119. 2 July 2014 A Palestinian boy, Abu Khdeir was kidnapped, beaten up and torched to death after being doused with petrol, by three Israeli youths in what was deemed a price tag attack.
120. 2 July 2014. In the wake of the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers, settlers who, according to Palestinian sources, hailed from the settlement of Itamar, sprayed the slogans “blood vengeance” and “price tag” on Fadi Basim Bani Jabir’s sheep farm in Aqraba, and torched the steel structure fencing it. The sheep were saved.
121. 9 August 2014. Settlers reportedly burnt a minibus and sprayed ‘price tag’ on a wall in the village of Yasuf. Palestinian security sources claim that the attackers hailed from the settlement of Tapuach.
122. 5–6 October 2014. Dozens of olive trees were felled in the village of Yasuf and a further 15 were damaged in the village of Burin in a suspected price tag attack. Settlers claim that thd cuts were the result of Palestinian pruning, which “leftist Israelis” exploited to make a blood libel against the settlers. On 11 October police arrested two Israelis from Tapuach on suspicion of involvement in the assault.
123. 14 October 2014.The mosque of Aqraba, near the settlement of Itamar was torched by a firebomb and the graffiti “price tag Tapuach” was sprayed on a wall nearby.
124. 11 November 2014. Vandals damaged several cars while spray-painted “No Arabs, no cars” at Beit Safafa in a suspected price-tag attack, in the wake of several incidents involving Palestinians ploughing two cars into crowds, a spate of attacks on Arabs, the knifing of two Jews, and police and IDF killings of protesting Palestinians.
125. 12 November 2014. Settlers reportedly torched the mosque at al-Mughayyir and spraypainted racist slogans at the site.
126. 23 November 2014. In a suspected price tag operation, settlers, attacking with Molotov cocktails and stun grenades, torched the home of the widow of Abd al-Karim Hussein Hamayil in Khirbet Abu Falah, scrawling “Death to the Arabs,” and “Avenge the blood of the fallen servants” in Hebrew at the site.
127. 29 November 2014 The bilingual Jewish-Arab Max Rayne Hand in Hand school in the Pat Neighbourhood of Jerusalem was torched by vandals, who sprayed slogans like “enough with assimilation”, “you can’t coexist with a cancer,” “Kahane was right” and “death to Arabs”. 3 Members of the radical right-wing group Lehava, Yitzah Gabay and the brothers Nahman and Shlomo Twitto, were arrested on suspicion of the arson on December 6, and later admitted their culpability. One of their mothers said:’It’s disgusting that Jews and Arabs learn side by side . . If we didn’t have a country governed by law, I would have done the same.
2015 Attacks
128. 14 January 2015. 11 vehicles in the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Safafa, East Jerusalem, had their tires punctured and the cars sprayed with hate graffiti, one referring to a “demarcation order”, alluding to an order to demolish an illegal settler outpost. Hilltop youth are suspected.
129. 26 February 2015. An arson attack on a Greek Orthodox seminary for the study of Christianity next to Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem destroyed the bathroom. The walls were smeared with graffiti, including “Jesus is a son of a b***h”, and “the Redemption of Zion”. The action was defined as a price tag attack by the Arab Joint List party.
130. 5 March 2015. Two cars were torched, and price-tag graffiti in Hebrew ( “Death to Arabs” and “Glory to the Jews”) were sprayed on walls, in the village of Mughayyir. Locals suspect that Adei Ad settlers are responsible.
131. 18 June 2015. In a suspected price tag attack by extremists, arsonists burnt down part of the Benedictine Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha, on the Sea of Galilee. The walls were daubed with the words ” “The false gods will be eliminated” , a citation from a Jewish prayer. 16 Israeli youths, 10 from the settlement of Yitzhar were briefly detained for interrogation and then released. On July 12, police arrested several Israeli youths on suspicion of being behind the arson attack.
132. 31 July 2015. An 18 month old baby was killed, two houses burnt down and three family members including a 4 year old child hospitalized with severe burns after a suspected arson attack by Jewish extremists in Duma, near Nablus. Graffiti was left on the walls saying “Long live Messiah the king”, “Price Tag” and “Revenge”. This terrorist attack is suspected to be in reaction to the Israeli government demolishing illegally built houses in a Beit El.
The Pakistan Christian Post reports on a terrorist shooting of a Christian husband and wife, Aleem Masih and his wife Nadia Masih, by religious extremists who opposed their marriage and religious freedom. The husband Aleem Masih was murdered by gunshots and his wife Nadia remains in the critical condition in the hospital after surgery to remove bullets from her stomach.
The terrorist attack took place on July 30, 2015, in a village near Youhanabad (11 miles from Lahore), after repeated threats by Nadia’s family due to her religious beliefs.
The Pakistan Christian couple had been repeatedly threatened by the wife’s family, reportedly due to her conversion from Islam to Christianity, and the couple had filed court papers to seek protection from such threats. After repeated threats, the couple had fled to Narang Mandi (about 37 miles away from Lahore), and where they could not be found. But when Nadia went to a doctor in a village near Youhanabad, she was apparently recognized. Members of her family came to attack her and husband.
The report states Nadia’s father (Muhammad Din Meo) kidnapped the couple by gunpoint and drove them to a remote location where Nadia’s brothers brutally beat and shot them. The terrorist attack resulted in the death of Aleem Masih and serious injury of his wife Nadia.
Aleem Masih was shot in his ankle, stomach, and through his mouth, which instantly killed him. Nadia’s brother Muhammad Azhar shot her repeatedly and believed that she was dead, and sought to brag about his terrorist murder on the Christian woman. The terrorist called all Christians “dogs” and claimed that they all should be killed.
Muhammad Azhar was arrested by the police. The Pakistan Christian Post reports that the “FIR (First Information report) got registered under sections 302, 324, 34, 148, 149 PPC and FIR No. is 945/15. ”
When the police came to arrest Muhammad Azhar, Nadia Masih was found to be still alive. Local supporters of Muhammad Azhar’s terrorist attack prevented police from getting a statement from Nadia Masih on the attacks. She remains in the hospital in critical condition. It is uncertain if she will survive.
Naeem Masih, the brother of murdered Christian Aleem Masih states that his friend, Hanooq Yaqoob, witnessed the terrorist shooting of the Christian couple. The Pakistan Christian Post reports that Naeem Masih’s wife stated that she “told the Voice team that she heard the people of the Village shouting and rejoicing at the murder of Aleem and saying that they can send their sons to death happily if they kill more Christians.”
In March 2015, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) reported on the terrorist attacks on Protestant and Catholic Christian Churches by the Taliban killing 15 Christians and injuring 80. These terrorist attacks were also in the Youhanabad area near Lahore. Pakistan Christian Congress leader Nazir Bhatti stated in March 2015 that “Violence is rising against Christians in Punjab province where incidents of burning alive Christian children, women and men happen on pretext to blasphemy law while setting on fire homes of Christians is matter of every week and culprits walk free on street.” Members of civil society have been calling for law enforcement and government action to stop such continuing terrorism. Geo TV reports that suspects have been arrested in the March 2015 attack, but details are not yet available.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) calls for the rule of law and end to such mob terrorist behavior against Pakistan Christians and other religious minorities in Pakistan. R.E.A.L. supports our Universal Human Rights for all people, including the freedom of religion, equality, security, and dignity, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),
Pakistan is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) ratified as of June 23, 2010, as well as a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Pakistan religious oppression of minorities, such as its repressive Blasphemy Law is in direct contradiction to its international agreement of ICCPR Article 18, which includes “1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.”
We urge all – in Pakistan and around the world – to be responsible for equality and liberty.
As too many around the world continue to recognize the continuing threat of Nazi terrorist activity, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) was sad to see a report from the Wall Street Journal about a book of “satire,” “comedy” music distributed by college band members, which mocks the Holocaust. It reported the Ohio State University Marching Band (OSUMB) created a book of “parody songs,” which denigrated people of minority identity groups. R.E.A.L. is also aware that OSUMB song book also had a song for Adolf Hitler singing about him killing Jewish people as part of their “comedy” songs (which was clearly part of their “parody” songs at least since 2006).
In the most recent OSUMB “parody song book” the members distributed a song called “Goodbye Kramer,” which mocked the Holocaust. The Wall Street Journal reported that the song mocking the Holocaust made “joking references to furnaces used in Nazi concentration camps and the train cars used to transport Jews to their deaths.” The Wall Street Journal reported that the contemptible song had “lines about Nazi soldiers ‘searching for people livin’ in their neighbor’s attic,’ and a ‘small town Jew…who took the cattle train to you know where.’ ” The Wall Street Journal reports additional details on graphic, disgusting remarks mocking the Holocaust in the OSUMB song book, which R.E.A.L. will not republish here. The detailed lyrics in the OSUMB Holocaust mockery song clearly demonstrate there were sung by those with no conscience and no respect for human life and dignity.
Former band member Lee Auer, who is now a band instructor in central Ohio, told the WSJ that he knew the parody song book was fun: “It was fun for me as an individual, but we knew if the public ever caught wind of them, people are going to lose respect. Now, I feel worse about it than I ever did. ” But let’s be clear, Mr. Lee Auer is not concerned that it was WRONG, he is concerned about whether people will lose respect for him. He doesn’t make a public statement apologizing that it was morally and ethically wrong. His concern then, as now, is only for himself.
The Daily Mail also reports that the OSUMB “parody tune written by members of the controversy-riddled band included references to furnaces used in Nazi concentration camps and the train cars used to transport Jews to their deaths.”
What none of the media has reported is that this OSUMB “parody song book” also had an earlier version in 2006 with a song for Adolf Hitler called “The Hitler Song,” where members of the OSUMB band sang “Kill the Jews all night, Kill the Jews all day.”
The OSUMB song book introduction stated it was including the Holocaust mockery song as a new edition with instructions to the OSUMB members: “Some of these [songs] may be offensive to you. If so, you can either ignore them, or you can suck it up, act like you got a pair and have a good time singing them.” The disturbed OSUMB found a moral equivalence with obscene attacks in contempt of human rights and a form of “courage.” Responsible for Equality And Liberty declares that contempt for our shared universal human rights and dignity is not any form of courage at all. It is nothing less than the epitome of cowardice.
As Jeffrey Sonheim writes, this “kind of hatred, once tolerated, then gets the nerve to become a tiny bit more open, Then ever so slowly cascades into total openness as hatred finds a home.” Closing his comment, most appropriately, with “When do you intend to grow up?”
Ohio State University Marching Band (OSUMB) Had Song Mocking the Holocaust and Nazi Killings of Jews
The existence of the OSUMB band “parody” song book first came to light in July 2014, after an investigation into the band’s culture. In 2014, the band director, Jonathan Waters was fired, after what the investigation found was a “deep culture of sexual harassment and sexualized behavior existed in the band.” The report also stated “many if not all of the traditions predate Waters.” In the report, it also indicated that a mocking nickname for one of the Jewish members of the band was used.
OSUMB Band Leader Jonathan Waters was Fired After “Sexual Environment” Discovered (Source: AP)
The Wall Street Journal could not reach former OSUMB band director Jon Woods, who was band director in 2012 according to the WSJ, for comment. Jonathan Waters was the assistant band director and been with the band since 2002.
Dr. Jon Woods, Leader of the Ohio State University Marching Band in 2012
Three words for the OSUMB and its leaders: SHAME ON YOU.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) stands by the B’nai B’rith in its condemnation of this “satire” mocking the Holocaust, as R.E.A.L. stands in defiance of all racist symbols of hate. As R.E.A.L. protesters were recently told to our faces by a young man in Maryland at our protest on Nazi symbols, some people find the Holocaust appropriate for “comedy” and “mocking.” R.E.A.L. and adult people of conscience do NOT.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty stands in solidarity with every word of B’nai B’rith and their report on this disgusting mocking of the Holocaust.
“B’nai B’rith International is highly offended by the despicable Ohio State University marching band’s Holocaust-inspired song called ‘Goodbye Kramer.’ The song, sung to the tune of Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin’,’ references Nazis looking for Jews living in attics and Jews traveling by way of cattle car, to their deaths at Nazi concentration camps. The song was discovered in an updated version of the band’s highly controversial songbook exposed in 2014 after a school investigation into the band’s culture. An initial report discovered the book that had been a long held secret with songs centering on bestiality, rape and homophobia. A follow-up investigation revealed ‘Goodbye Kramer’ was added to the band’s repulsive repertoire in 2012, as was another song denigrating the University of Nebraska. It is never acceptable to trivialize Holocaust imagery. To do so in a jovial tone and completely for the sake of offending is even more abhorrent. The Ohio State marching band has long been dubbed ‘The Best Damn Band in the Land,’ but this sort of behavior does nothing to back up that title.”
While adult people of conscience reject the OSUMB members support for hate “songs,” the Nazi / Confederate group Stormfront’s members are pleased by the OSUMB’s actions. Stormfront members regularly call for and praise terrorist attacks on the United States of America, including praise of the Nazi terrorist James Von Brunn’s attack on the Washington DC U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Stormfront Nazis were pleased to hear about OSUMB’s hate songs mocking the Holocaust, and one of the comments on the Nazi hate blog stated: “Of course they don’t give what the lyrics were in the article but I would like to hear them. The point is the holycaust has had its day as a sympathizing sucking machine that everyone bows down to as a religion. The fact is the holycaust has become a joke.”
Stormfront Hate Group Members Praise OSUMB for Their Mockery of the Holocaust (Source: Screenshot)
This is what those who demean the atrocity of the Holocaust and Stormfront Nazis have in common – the normalization of Nazi atrocities and figures.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) believes that support for our universal human rights begins with recognizing the need to have a moral conscience towards atrocities and towards hateful languages against minority groups. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed by the nations of the world on December 10, 1948, begins with recognizing that “disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind.”
There are white Americans who have privileged lives where the need for such a conscience has been replaced with only the needs for their own momentary amusements. There are white Americans who have grown up learning about the “relativity” of world events and history, rather than a genuine understanding of human rights, ethics, morality, and respect for their fellow human beings. R.E.A.L. believes this toxic culture must change, and we urge parents and adults to set an example on such issues and to take a stand to be responsible for equality and liberty.
In Chinese Communist Chinese Party (CCP)-controlled China, Christians are facing a new campaign of persecution involving the removal and destruction of Christian religious symbols of crosses in a “beautification” campaign by the CCP authorities. The Communist totalitarian authorities, having sought to remove all other human rights of the Chinese people, now seek to deny them the right of freedom of worship of their faith and their religious symbols. On July 29, 2015, ChinaAid reported that the CCP tyrants demanded in July 2015 that Christians “Take down the crosses on top of your churches, or else,” and since then, the Communist tyrants have created construction gangs to remove and destroy Christian crosses across thousands of churches.
Chinese Christian Church in Shanghai – Christian Crosses are being removed from Churches
This latest attack on Chinese Christians is centered in the Chinese Zhejiang province, one of the last major areas of members of the Christian faith in China, with an estimated 300,000 Catholics and 1 million Protestants. The Christian churches in Zhejiang have both government sanctioned and underground “house” churches. Over the past 10 years, the CCP totalitarians have increased destroyed such “house” churches to prevent any Christian teachings not controlled by the Communists’ iron fist. ChinaAid, Responsible for Equality And Liberty, and other human rights activists have reported on the Communist destruction of such Christian churches.
Bulldozed Remains of a Catholic church in a village in Pingyang county of Wenzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. CCP tyrants have forcibly removed hundreds of rooftop crosses from Protestant and Catholic churches in the region. (Source: Didi Tang/AP)
The CCP have removed 1,200 crosses from churches since 2013, and this Communist initiative has accelerated in recent weeks. At one time, the Zhejiang area had red church crosses, but most of them have now been forcibly removed; this has included the total destruction of some churches. Maya Wang with Human Rights Watch has stated (as reported by Hong Kong Free Press) that many of the churches with crosses being removed were already “official churches” under the “sanction” of the CCP. For”official” churches, the CCP puts Communist authorities in charge of Catholics and Protestants in “sanctioned” churches. From 1958 to 1978, the CCP banned all Christian worship and Christians were all forced underground; since then they have allowed mostly state-sanctioned churches, but the Communist tyrants are now believing Christian symbols need to be removed from public view.
Chinese Christians in Prayer
The Communist oppressors attack on Christians’ human rights claim that having church crosses are “illegal building practices,” not religious symbols. CCP attacks on Christian crosses have increased in the cities of Wenzhou, Hangzhou and Lishui.
Communists tear down a cross from a Protestant church in Hangzhou’s Dingqiao township (Source: ChinaAid)
Radio Free Asia reports that Communist “demolition gangs have taken down crosses from the tops of churches in provincial capital Wenzhou, Taizhou, Huzhou and Jinhua cities in recent days, in a slew of demolitions billed in state media as a building safety campaign.” ChinaAid has reported that Communist demolition teams have also been accompanied by SWAT police forces or private security. Such Communist police authorities have disrupted protests by Christians, beating them away from the site where their construction crews sought to demolish the Christian cross.
Communist Tyrants Beat Christian Protesters Away from Demolition Team to Destroy CrossesWenling City Church Cross Forcibly Removed by Communists (Source: Twitter)A Christian church in Oubei, outside the city of Wenzhou that was demolished by Chinese authorities, April 30, 2014 (AFP)
In Lishui city, Communist gangs set fire to the Huzhen Church’s cross while it was being removed, telling the news media that “the cross began burning on its own.”
Huzhen Church’s Cross Removed by Communist Gangs – Set on Fire
Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that “In Wenzhou, a member of the Yuyangtaitou church in Wenzhou’s Pingyang county said their church’s cross had also been demolished by the authorities on Monday (July 27, 2015). Video footage shot by congregants and seen by RFA showed government officials lowering the cross gradually to the ground using ropes, watched by a tearful congregation singing hymns.”
A crane winches a large red cross from one of three domes on the Guantou church in Wenzhou, China
A similar video can be seen in Yahui Church in Pingyang County with Christian worshipers in tears singing a hymn while the cross is removed from their church by the Communist authorities.
Chinese Christians Sing Hymn as Communists Remove Cross from Yanhui Church (Source: ICC YouTube)
The Communist authorities have been disturbed by the growth of Christianity in CCP-controlled China. The Daily Telegraph reports estimates of 58 million Protestant Christians in China in 2010, growing to a protected 160 million by 2025 (a number greater than American Protestants in 2010), with an additional projected growth in Catholics in China to 247 million by 2030.
Growth of Christianity in China Disturbs Communist Tyrants (Source: Telegraph)
But the Chinese Christians have remained determined to preserve the symbols of their faith. Throughout the capital of Zheijang province, Christians in Wenzhous have made dozens of crosses to be distributed to other Christians, as the Communists tore down their church crosses.
Chinese Christians Make New Crosses, while the Communists Tear Down Existing Crosses
Other Chinese Christians have used tactics of civil non-obedience to fend off Communist demolition crews to block or interfere with the removal of Christian cross symbols from their church, include disconnecting power to local cranes.
In Wenzhou, Communist Demolition Crews Thwarted by Christians at Guantou and Dongyang Churches
This has included Christians protesting the removal of crosses from their churches throughout Zhejiang province. ChinaAid reports that “Last week, 20 Catholic priests, including 89-year-old Bishop Vincent Zhu Weifang, held a small protest in front of the Wenzhou government offices. Holding a sign that read ‘Maintaining religious dignity and opposing the forced removal of crosses.'”
Chinese Christians Organizing Protests against Communist Removal of Crosses from Churches (Source: Twitter)
During the efforts by the Communist cross demolition gang in Zhejiang province on July 29, 2015, 16 Christian pastors and believers were also arrested by the CCP police, according to Christian lawyer Pang Kun, 8 of which have not been released. Pang told Radio Free Asia (RFA) that the Christians were arrested for charges such as “running an illegal business,” “obstructing official duty,” when the Christians were opposed to the removal of crosses from the churches. Mr. Pang Kun stated “This is about the fact that they were opposed to the removal of the cross from their church, and this is a form of revenge against them. They want to send any church that doesn’t comply into disarray. This is an unreasonable act of revenge, which seriously violates the rights of these believers to freedom of religious belief. It is also against the law.”
In addition, according to reports by the RFA, there have been reports of 8 Protestant Christian pastors arrested in Wenzhou, as of July 29, 2015. After a church was removed from a local Wenzhou church, their pastor Zhang Chongyang was also taken away by the police. Another church in Zhejiang’s Cannon county reported their pastor, Liant Pu, was also taken in by the police.
Christian leaders in China have been calling for non-violent protests and non-violent civil disobedience in the face of this blatant attack on their fundamental universal human rights of freedom of religion by the CCP tyrants. The Guardian also reports that: “Protestant preachers are encouraging their congregations to peacefully oppose the removals by placing homemade wooden crosses in their homes or on their cars.”
Chinese Christians Build New Crosses to Take with Them in Defiance of Communist Tyrants
Chinese Christian leaders are also calling for President Barack Obama to address to oppression of Chinese Christians with CCP leader and Chinese President Xi Jinping, when he makes his first state visit to the United States in September 2015.
International Christian Concern has a petition calling for the Chinese CCP Ambassador in the United States of America to end the CCP’s cross demolition across China, and calls for supporters to sign this online petition.
The CCP Communist totalitarians are seeking to control references on social media about the removal of the Christian crosses, and punish those brave individuals which provide this information about the cross removal and destruction campaign. RFA states that “Protestant believer Zheng Xianghuang said he had received a visit from Zhejiang state security police at his home the southwestern province of Sichuan after he posted a photo of a cross demolition on a social media site.”
People Respecting Our Shared Universal Human Rights Must Defend the Religious Freedom of Chinese Christians
When you read this story, know that there were Christians who sacrificed to get this information to the public and defend their human rights and freedom of religion. To those who respect our shared Universal Human Rights, Responsible for Equality And Liberty urges that you share this story on social media to let the world know what is happening in CCP-controlled China.
The Communist Chinese authorities actions are in direct violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political (ICCPR), both of which China claims to have signed. The CCP government holds “human rights” meeting in China regularly, while it rejects such rights. It is the only major nation to have never actually ratify the ICCPR which it has “signed.”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty urges all those supporting our shared Universal Human Rights to sign the petition asking for President Obama to address this issue with CCP leader and Chinese President Xi Jinping. We urge you to also contact the CCP-controlled government and let them know that the people around the world defend our Universal Human Rights, not just for one group, one ethnicity, one race, or one religion – but for all people – everywhere, and that we are together – responsible for equality and liberty.
