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...to call Palestinians:
a) Palestinian Nazis?
b) Islamo Nazis?
IMO, anyone posting that here would have their post alerted on and removed by a 7-0 vote. Maybe tomb-stoned...
But Jewish Nazis are okay.
..everyone is entitled to their opinion ....especially such an expert as you on Israeli politics and history ..... cant tell the difference between Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin...
PM are best for those personally tiffs that have nothing to do with the rest of us.
The Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court cleared for publication on Sunday that officers arrested several suspects in connection to the torching of the Hebrew-Arab bilingual school in Jerusalem.
Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4600720,00.html
Media gag order lifted
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Several suspects were arrested in the suspected arson attack on a joint Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem.
The suspects were arrested a week ago, shortly after a fire was set in the classroom of the Max Rayne Hand In Hand Jerusalem School.
On Sunday, the Petach Tikvah Magistrate’s Court lifted a media gag order on the arrests.
A gag order remains in place on the exact number of suspects being held and details of the investigation.
A preliminary police investigation found that the blaze was set intentionally.
“Death to Arabs” and “There is no coexistence with cancer” were among the anti-Arab epithets spray-painted on the school walls.
The court on Sunday extended the remand of the suspects until Thursday, and allowed the police and Shin Bet security service to continue to prevent the suspects from meeting with their lawyers, Haaretz reported.
The Hand In Hand Jerusalem School is Israel’s largest joint Arab-Jewish school and the only such primary and high school in the city. Five Hand in Hand schools are located throughout the country.
Source: http://forward.com/articles/210503/suspects-arrested-in-torching-of-joint-arab-jewish/
?w=477&h=486Hundreds of people protested in West Jerusalem’s Zion Square Saturday night against racism and called to outlaw Lehava, a racist, anti-misegenation group . Three of its members were charged several days ago with an arson attack against a mixed Jewish-Arab school two weeks ago.
The protest was organized by a group of activists who identify as: “Jerusalem doesn’t stay silent in the face of racism.” Protesters held signs in Hebrew and Arabic that read “Stop the racism” and “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies.” They called out chants like “Lehava’s racism begins in the government” and “Jerusalem will not be silent; outlaw racism.”
Among the speakers at the protest was Murad Mana, whose child attends the bilingual Arab-Jewish school in the city which was burned exactly two weeks ago. He said, “We will not allow bully burn down our coexistence.”
+972 blogger Orly Noy, whose children also attend the bilingual school, also spoke at the rally. “This type of violence does not take place in a vacuum,” Noy told the crowd and wrote in a post later Saturday night (Hebrew). “It sprouts from a bed of growing deligitimization of the Palestinian population in Jerusalem, both inside Israel and in the occupied territories.”
Three Israelis arrested for the arson attack on the mixed Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem two weeks ago are active members of Lehava, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Thursday, after a Shin Bet gag order was lifted on the case.
One of the suspects is from Jerusalem and the other two are brothers from the West Bank settlement Beitar Illit. The three reportedly admitted in their interrogation by the Shin Bet that they carried out the attack because they object to Arab-Jewish coexistence and that they hoped their act of arson would “raise public awareness” against the phenomenon.
In addition to the burning of a first grade classroom and its books, graffiti found on the school included: “death to Arabs,” “coexistence is a cancer,” “no to assimilation” and “Kahane was right.”
All these messages are explicitly identified with Lehava, whose leader, Benzi Gupstein, is a disciple of the late Meir Kahane. Kahane’s Kach party was disqualified from participating in Israeli elections in 1988 for inciting to racism, and was banned outright in 1994. Kach is considered a terrorist organization by the United States.
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Since the summer, groups of Lehava activists have become a regular staple in downtown Jerusalem, where they go around making racist remarks against Palestinian pedestrians and taxi drivers, sometimes physically attacking them. And although the group claims to be strictly committed to advocating against Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in Israel, its activities are rife with incitement to violence and racism. Just last month they urged Israeli soldiers to shoot Palestinians in the head.
This is not the first time Lehava has been directly tied to acts of violence. In September, two Palestinians from East Jerusalem, Amir Shwiki and Samer Mahfouz, were beaten badly by a group of Jewish Israelis, several of them identified as activists with Lehava.
Source: http://972mag.com/hundreds-rally-against-racist-group-lehava-in-jerusalem/99947/
Judea and Samaria District Police raided Tuesday morning the houses of ten operatives in the anti-assimilation, anti-coexistence "Lehava" organization, including the residence of organization chairman, Bentzi Gopstein.
The ten were arrested on suspicion of incitement and calls to commit racist violence and terrorism.
Police described the investigation as elaborate, whose covert phase ended with the arrests. In addition to Gopstein, a resident of Kiryat Arba, operatives were arrested across Israel, including in the cities of Petah Tikva, Netivot, and Jerusalem.
The ten suspects were to be brought Tuesday morning to Jerusalem's Magistrate Court for a hearing on extending their remand.
Gopstein's lawyer, Itamar Ben Gvir, claimed that extensive damage was done to his client's home during the police search. Ben Gvir further claimed that the arrest was politically motivated. "The politicians from the left applied pressure for the police to act against Lehava, even though it's clear to them that this is a law-abiding organization openly acting against assimilation," he said. "This is a disgrace.".....
Monday's indictment accused Yitzhak Gabai of Jerusalem and brothers 20-year-old Shlomo and 18-year-old Nahman Twito, both of the ultra-orthodox West Bank settlement Beitar Ilit, of setting fire to the school late last month and writing racist slogans on its walls. Gabai was additionally charged with driving without a license and possession of a knife.
The indictment said the three decided to set fire and spray slogans on the school's walls after they discovered that a ceremony in memory of Yasser Arafat was held in the school several weeks earlier – an allegation denied by the school principal.
Hundreds of protestors gathered Saturday evening in Jerusalem, calling to outlaw the organization.
Source : http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4604064,00.html
