Beit Ummar: Arabs waved a large Nazi flag

Rotter (he) ^ | Sep 25, 2021

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Ruthie Blum, " UNRWA’s deceitful ploys to stifle Israeli truth-telling", JPost, Oct 7, 2021.

Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan was prevented from bringing picture proving antisemitic nature of UNRWA teachers into General Assembly


(photo credit: SPOKESMAN FOR AMBASSADOR GILAD ERDAN)

The corrupt body, whose ill-deserved status as an agency for “refugees” keeps it in financial cover, continues to employ educators who regularly incite terrorism against Jews.    

Given the nature and mission of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan was prevented on Monday from entering the General Assembly hall with a prop proving the point he intended to make at a meeting about the organization.

The item was a poster illustrating the antisemitic views of an UNRWA school teacher in Gaza by praising Adolf Hitler. Erdan had equipped himself with the placard to refute the statements he knew were going to be made by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.

He had good reason to want to come prepared with visual evidence. The corrupt body, whose ill-deserved status as an agency for “refugees” keeps it in financial cover, continues to employ educators who regularly incite terrorism against Jews, both in the classroom and on social media.

This was one key impetus for the decision by the administration of former US president Donald Trump in 2018 to cut America’s entire aid budget to UNRWA. In the first place, the bloated agency has spent the many decades since its inception perpetuating the “refugee crisis,” rather than using its mandate to settle the approximately 600,000 “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict [Israel’s War of Independence].”

Second, and even more egregiously, it has actively and passively abetted terrorism. Not only does it hire people affiliated with Hamas, but the terrorist group that rules Gaza uses UNRWA schools and other buildings as facilities for the storage of weapons.

.... Lazzarini doesn’t seem to know or care that this is the case. Instead of vowing to root out such evil, he took the opportunity of the meeting in question to say that he’s “proud of UNRWA’s education system and its resources.”

UNRWA, he stated, “uses host country curricula in line with the best practices in refugee education.”

Let that sink in. The head of UNRWA acknowledged that what he’s up to is “refugee education”: encouraging kids born and raised in Judea, Samaria and Gaza – like their parents and even many of their grandparents – to embrace their misery, not extricate themselves from it.

At least he was being honest about that. Nevertheless, he out-and-out lied when he asserted that “UNRWA has a zero-tolerance policy for hate speech, incitement, discrimination, hostility or violence.”

To soften the fabrication, he added, “I am, however, acutely aware that we are operating in a highly divided and emotionally charged environment where zero risk does not exist.”

It was a typical maneuver to make UNRWA sound measured, while excusing its Gaza staff for vile behavior. He promptly corrected the faux “balance,” however, by concluding: “Politically motivated attacks on our education system, and more broadly against the agency, are increasing in frequency and in aggression. Those behind these attacks do not have the well-being of Palestinian refugee children at heart.”

No, he wasn’t joking. He even managed to keep a straight face when he insisted that UNRWA schools teach their pupils about human rights, conflict resolution, tolerance, gender equality and democracy. Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives must have gotten a kick out of that absurdity.

ERDAN WAS certainly not amused. When it was his turn to address the gathering, he said, “I am shocked, because I brought here with me a photo of an UNRWA teacher’s post glorifying the most horrific mass murderer in history, Adolf Hitler. Unfortunately, shockingly, I was prevented from bringing in this photo in order to share this proof with the other distinguished ambassadors here.”

Bemoaning the “very dangerous precedent” of denying his “freedom of expression” and “hiding the truth from the UN,” he let it rip.

“Hamas has built terror tunnels under UNRWA schools and stored weapons,” he said. “Textbooks used in UNRWA schools have glorified terrorists, called Jews Satan’s helpers and displayed maps that erase Israel. UNRWA is part of the problem, not the solution, and the time has come for the international community to hold it accountable.”

...he told reporters that “the UN isn’t just biased; it also shuts mouths. The UNRWA commissioner-general said here that he was proud of his teachers. I didn’t allow his lies to go without a response. I will continue fighting for our truth.”

... the placard incident came on the heels of another UNRWA attempt at stifling critics. On October 3, UN Watch director Hillel Neuer was cut off in mid-sentence while testifying on this very topic via video conference before the UN Human Rights Council.

“Madame President, is UNRWA supporting peace?” he asked rhetorically, then going on to illustrate why the answer is no.

“Let us consider UN Watch’s recent report on the teachers they hire, by looking at their social media,” he began. “Nahed Sharawi, an UNRWA math teacher in Gaza, posted a video of Adolf Hitler, along with quotes ‘to enrich and enlighten your thoughts and minds.’”

He went on: “Husni Masri, an UNRWA teacher in the West Bank, posted antisemitic conspiracy theories about how Jews control the world, created the coronavirus and seek to destroy Islam.”

Just as he was about to name a certain Esraa Abdal Raheem as a third UNRWA antisemite, UNHRC President Nazhat Shameem suddenly interrupted him.

“I ask the secretariat to pause this video,” she said sternly. “I have noticed that in the course of this video, derogatory, insulting and inflammatory remarks have been made, which in particular refer to specific individuals. This amounts to personal attacks against those individuals, and it is not acceptable in this forum. This statement is out of order, and I give the floor to the next speaker, the Palestinian Return Center, Ltd.”

You honestly cannot make this stuff up.

The libelous rant that ensued – about Palestinians “deprived of their innate human right to water, due to Israeli military blockade and constant Israeli military assaults” – was predictable. After all, members of the UNHRC include China, Pakistan and Nigeria, which are among the world’s worst violators of religious and other freedoms. Spreading disinformation is the least of their sins.

.. The trouble is, as Neuer’s tireless work reveals, that UNRWA doesn’t operate in a vacuum.

On the contrary, it’s one of many dangerous United Nations NGOs that have no legitimate cause for existing, other than to pad their own coffers. UNRWA enjoys the added benefit of perpetuating Palestinian poverty while providing cover for mass murderers bent on annihilating Israel...

The item was a poster illustrating the antisemitic views of an UNRWA school teacher in Gaza by praising Adolf Hitler. Erdan had equipped himself with the placard to refute the statements he knew were going to be made by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.

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Swastika and abusive graffiti against Israel were sprayed in Daburyia in the north 0404, March 39, 2016.

Arabs spray-painted swastikas, painted a PLO flag and an abusive graffiti against Israel at a station in the northern town of Daburyia, near Afula. This is not the first event in an Arab settlement and not in the last. In the news of 0404, dozens of Arab hate crime events were published, but the police were not operating on the subject almost included. In Taibe, Lod, Sakhnin, Arraba, Daburyia and many Arab localities sprayed through sterilizer and granted addresses against Jews and Israel. As we know, on an Arabs' address (in our country, very few cases) the police rush to issue a message to the media and everyone is in a hurry to condemn, but in the Jewish state do nothing when harming Jews.

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The Nazism behind Palestinian murder, ILH, Apr 16, 2015.

The extermination of the Jews and the establishment of the State of Israel are regularly used as fuel for the Palestinians

[Swastika in a demonstration in support of the Palestinians]

During a social reconnaissance Operation Peace for Galilee for a paratrooper force from the 202nd Battalion that entered the PLO headquarters in Beirut. In one of the drawers I found a "Parabellum" gun. As the son of Holocaust survivors, my heart skipped a beat. The eagle and the swastika were stamped on the pistol. The Nazi killing tool created for me a crushing mental encounter between the nightmares of my father, who lost his family in the Holocaust, and the murderous Palestinian-Islamic ideology that the gun in my hand turned into a blow.

This murderous ideology has been used regularly in the writings and speeches of senior Palestinian Authority officials since then, and is reflected in both the Hamas Charter and the platform of other Islamic organizations and is a platform for Iran and Hezbollah war preparations.

This legacy includes the masterpiece of the extermination of the Jews in Khyber by Muhammad as a role model and as an injunction to exterminate the Jews. Beyond the need to eliminate the buds of Jewish settlement and curb Jewish immigration to Israel, it was the ideological-religious meeting point of the Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, a sustainable Palestinian icon, with Nazi German leader Hitler. The Hajj, which founded the "Nazi Scout Movement" as early as 1936, is to this day an exemplary figure of the Palestinian national movement in the national and religious context.

In the years 1944-1941 the Mufti lived in Berlin and served as a close adviser (on salary) to Adolf Eichmann ... Historical reports indicate a conclusion reached, according to which when the Germans conquered Israel, an extermination camp would be built in the Dotan Valley for the Jews of the land and the Islamic lands, and the Mufti would serve as the leader of Palestine after it was conquered (by Rommel).

Courtesy of Memri, every Israeli can see that the extermination of the Jews and Israel and the establishment of "Palestine" on its ruins are regularly used as fuel to incite the Palestinian public. The Jews, after all, as the propagandist Goebbels puts it: the end of a frequent lie that will eventually become a reality. , Demands that Israel "Hashem" settle the "peace-loving refugees" in its territory as part of the "right of return."

Meanwhile, the Arabs and Palestinians are killing each other in the Middle East, as well as in the Gaza Strip and especially in the al-Yarmouk suburb. This high-rise district in Damascus, whose Palestinian residents have long since become Syrians, is not at all like the tents in which millions of real Arab refugees are currently languishing from cold and famine as part of the "Arab Spring."

The Palestinians murdered and betrayed their hosts in Kuwait and Jordan, Syria and Beirut and cannot live with each other in peace even in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. And it is precisely now that the publicist Odeh Bisharath is proposing that, like Jordan, we should receive "as a gesture" Palestinian "refugees" from Syria. Someone here really loves us.

There is a habit among "those who were" to gather at a "Parliament" table and discuss hourly issues. When the memory of the Holocaust is raised as a warning sign in a hostile environment for Jews, the faces of some of the "intellectuals" at the table, who cynically claim that it is the "contempt" of the Holocaust and manipulative, anachronistic, emotional to the point of collapse, become obsolete. While some try to forget the Holocaust of the Jews, the Palestinians deny the Holocaust and try to make fun of us in the "Nakba" narrative. As for myself, the feeling of "Parabellum" will remain in my hands forever.

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I Weiss, "Hate crime: Arabs spray-painted "Hitler", "Al-Quds" inscriptions on JNF signs - Website 0404" 0404, Jan 24, 2018.

Arabs committed a hate crime and vandalized KKL-JNF signs in the area of ​​ruins Abu Khuf, near the Lahav forest in the south of our country. Among the inscriptions spray-painted on the signs, the word "Hitler" can be identified.

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Elisha Ben Kimon, "Swastikas were sprayed in Samaria, Yeshiva students from Yitzhar deleted them", YNet, Oct 22, 2021.

A Palestinian was arrested on suspicion of spray-painting swastikas on concrete blocks near Huwara, where hundreds .. pass through the mountain back settlements. Recently, many villages in Samaria were quite a few exhibits with Germans of Nazi Germany.

A Palestinian who flooded swastikas on tondys near the main road in the village of Huwwara, in Samaria, was arrested today (Friday) by IDF fighters and transferred to the police care. "We try to meet the front wherever we are consumed," said Sandrog. "When we saw the objective Nazi symbols on the road leading to the mountain back settlements, we were happy to prevent the hurt to emotions with Israel and delete the icons quickly. "

The Nazi Arab who spray-painted swastikas in Huwara was captured. Kudos to 'Rabshatz' Yitzhar and the Samaria Brigade...
Oct 22, 2021

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Nazi Arab = arrested

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Documentation: Raised Hand and swastikas at the Palestinian Authority Netanyahu: "The incitement continues.", Ariel Kahana, NRG Maariv, 11/11/2013.

Incitement in the Palestinian Authority? Pictures taken at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem show masked men in Islamic Jihad uniforms, saluting. In other photos you can see university students watching the ceremony raising their hands in the Nazi salute ... The photo photographer asked not to reveal his identity, but stressed that some of the saluters in the picture who are seen in the photos are students studying at the university. It was also reported that two similar incidents have taken place recently by Hamas ... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also referred to documentation from the university at the cabinet meeting held yesterday, saying: "It is particularly disturbing that these days we are witnessing phenomena in the Palestinian Authority and swastikas. This is a direct result of the continued wild incitement against the State of Israel. Nrg Maariv has learned that Netanyahu's remarks came following a review presented to him in recent days by the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, which regularly monitors the incitement index in the PA. The latest review clearly showed a trend of using Nazi symbols, including at Al Quds University in Jerusalem - an institution that considers itself enlightened and pro-Western.

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Pisgat Ze'ev: swastikas sprayed at the central intersection (towards Begin road), Rotter, May 16, 2021. [With "Palestine" flag]

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A swastika and malicious graffiti on the KKL's picnic table in the forest Segev at the Board of Misgav in Galilee. Near the settlements Ya'ad, Atzmon, Sha'ab, Kabul. (Including promoting Hamas and the Palestind flag) May 25, 2021

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Swastikas are also sprayed throughout Qalansawe. The police are not working. Rotter, 06/27/14.

Swastikas are also sprayed throughout Qalansawe (Qalansuwa). The police do not commit hundreds of hate crimes against Jews across the country

This morning, the Israeli police presented the abusive graffiti spray-painted against Arabs in Be'er Sheva. She rushed to the scene, collected findings and announced that she had opened an investigation.

To this moment, no police source refers to thousands of abusive graffiti against Jews and swastikas spray-painted in Arab towns and villages throughout Israel, even though the events are known to the police.



In the last two months, News 0404 has featured numerous abusive graffiti and swastikas and "Hitler was [sic] right" graffiti spray-painted throughout the city of Taibeh. Similar events have been presented in various places in the country. Some of the addresses were deleted by representatives of the local authorities, but those in the Arab towns and villages remained in place. No police officer even bothered to come and inspect the place.

In the photo: a swastika on an abandoned building in the city of Qalansawa in the Sharon. In Qalansawe, too, many abusive graffiti and swastikas are spray-painted against Jews.

For some reason, an address against Arabs at a bus stop in Petah Tikva immediately jumps the police and a message is sent to the media. Chatter on the sidewalk in Jerusalem causes exactly the same effect, but everything related to the Jewish people receives no attention. For example, the police did not open an investigation after the paratroopers' monument was vandalized with inscriptions, did not refer at all to Arab hate crimes in the Lavi Forest, at a station near the Naftali camp in the north, on a bench at the Magar junction, in Be'er Sheva, in the Old City of Jerusalem, in Gush Etzion. , Qalansawe and more and more.

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Schoenberg, Harris Okun. A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO. United States: Shapolsky Publishers, 1989. p. 183.
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While no debates and no pledging conferences were organized by the UN for Jewish refugees , the mandate for UNRWA was extended decades ... donating $ 60- $ 100 million a year, to prevent the radicalization of the refugees when, in fact, the camps were the breeding ground for PLO terror. The Associated Oress reported already on June 18, 1979 that PLO terrorists controlled...

During Israel's 1982 strike against the PLO in Lebanon , the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed that UNRWA schools were used as terrorist bases and that shelters and schools were used as arms depots . The IDF also discovered a training school for Fatah terrorists in Lebanon located in a vocational training school run by UNRWA at Siblin. At the Siblin Vocational Training Center situated on a mountaintop several kilometers north of Sidon, the IDF found rocket-propelled grenade launchers and missiles, Kalashnikov assault rifles, anti - tank and anti-aircraft missile launchers, hand grenades, abd an assortment of other weapons and explosives.

The center featured a modern audio-visual language laboratory to help students assigned to terrorist activities to work in different parts of the world.

The student dormitory was found strewn with military uniforms. In one room, a picture of Arafat on the wall was flanked by a large black swastika on a red background. A captured document seemed to show that UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon, provided intelligence to the PLO about coming Israeli reprisals.

Information uncovered by the IDF revealed that no student was permitted to graduate from the Siblin Center without graduating first from the Fatah course of study and serving a minimum of twelve months with the PLO.
The initial coverup was undertaken by UNRWA's employees. All but 120 of the 17,000 UNRWA staff are Palestinian Arabs. As one staff member put it a few years later. "You might say we're a Palestinian agency under the UN flag."

UNRWA headquarters continued to cover up until the U.S. suspended payments in 1982 and made no new pledge for 1983. The UN agency finally issued a report which confirmed all the charges. UNRWA's Commissioner-General Olof Rydbeck, the former Swedish ambassador at the UN, later admitted that for some time prior to the disclosure, he had not been permitted to inspect UNRWA camps in southern Lebanon without prior notice to the PLO, and then only with an escort provided by the organization...

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Arabs hung a Nazi flag near the Chomesh settlement in SamariaSrugim, Nov 2, 2021.

The students of the Chomesh Yeshiva were shocked to discover a Nazi flag on the road leading between Chomesh and Shavei Shomron. "Since Operation Guardian of Walls, we've been experiencing a lot of harassment here and it seems to be a deliberate trend. The students of Yeshivat Chomesh, who travel on the "Chomesh - Shavei Shomron" axis every day, discovered this morning that during the night a Nazi flag with swastikas was hung near the town of Chomesh. Two swastikas appeared on one side of the flag .... According to one of the students, "exactly 100 meters from the entrance to the settlement, we saw the flag. We stopped the vehicle and lowered it immediately."

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At the border fence on May 4, 2018.

NPR, May 15, 2018.

INSKEEP: The Israelis know that people are flying kites with swastikas. They know this, and they use it to discredit you, to say this shows you're bad people. What do you think about that?
AL-BORDANI: (Foreign language spoken).
INSKEEP: "This is actually what we want them to know," he says, "that we want to burn them." That is one of many views we've heard in the last few days in Gaza...

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Y. Zilberman, Swastikas and "Palestine for Us" inscriptions in a synagogue complex near Jericho, N12 news, May 25, 2012.

Worshipers who arrived early in the morning to pray at the ancient synagogue in Niran, near Jericho, were astonished to find that its gates had been breached, and inscriptions "Palestine to us" in Arabic, as well as swastikas, were spray-painted on the spot. It is estimated that Palestinian elements are behind the act. Fury in Jericho: "This is crossing a red line."

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Jerusalem: Swastika, "Death to the Jews" and "Hamas" were written on a door in the Muslim Quarter in the Old City, Rotter, 10/22/17.
Police Spokeswoman (Jerusalem):

During the night, the police received a report of inscriptions written on a door in the Muslim quarter of the Old City in Hebrew and Arabic, "Death to the Jews," "Hamas," and a painting of a swastika.

Police opened an investigation and forensic investigators arrived at the scene. At the same time the inscriptions were deleted by the municipality.



Kann News Tweeted (Oct 31, 2017):

Three Arab residents of the Old City of Jerusalem were arrested on suspicion of spray-painting graffiti against Jews. Among other things, they spray-painted swastikas and inscriptions 'Death to the Jews'

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Watch Sakhnin fans despise the anthem: hand raised and middle finger", News 0404, 19/01/2016.

A disgrace to a country that lets its anthem be humiliated in this way. We have not a millimeter of respect left. Where will the Knesset members rehabilitate and revolutionize? Where is the Israel Police? How much more are you willing to absorb? Anyone who lends a hand to this, should be ashamed of himself. In the video, the perpetrators can be seen singing and shouting: "In blood and fire we will redeem al-Aqsa," pointing with a raised hand and (flipping) the middle finger and despising the entire Jewish people...

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Arnold Nataev, Residents of the neighborhood woke up and discovered the swastika on the building. The municipality is currently removing the marking from the site, B7 Net, Nov 29, 2021.

Residents of the Ramot neighborhood woke up this morning (Monday), and were shocked to discover a swastika spray-painted on one of the buildings in the neighborhood, on Prof. Avraham Meir Street.

ינון בן חמו - inon - إينون @inonbh Tweeted:
הבוקר שכונת רמות ב''ש אני בטוח שאם היה רשום 'תג מחיר' זה היה פותח מהדורות.
Residents of Be'er Sheva in Israel woke up to the sight of ... symbolizing "Death to the Jews." I'm sure if it had been a 'price tag' it would have opened up new editions all over the world. Nov 28, 2021

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My Israel @MyIsraelorgil Tweeter ():

Not agricultural crime, but agricultural terrorism. Antisemitic terrorism. Look at the container of farmer Rami Rafael from the Jordan Valley. Over the weekend the container was broken into and the farm equipment was stolen. The rioters not only stole, but also completely destroyed the place and spray-painted a swastika on the door. Anti-Semitism in Israel 2021.

Swastika on the door and destruction in an agricultural pavilion in the Jordan Valley: "Difficult sights", YNet, 28.11.21.

The container of Rami Rafael, one of the area's veterans, was broken into and looted over the weekend. "Every few days something happens, if not with me - then with the neighbor," he said. But this time vandalism was joined by a swastika spray-painted on the door. The head of the council called on the government to assist.

Farmer Rami Rafael (63) from the Jordan Valley was surprised to discover during Saturday that the container in which he holds the tools and agricultural equipment for his date plantations had been broken into. Tools and pesticides were looted and the place was vandalized. The locks were broken, the bars were twisted and torn, and the security cameras were destroyed. The door was "decorated" with a red swastika.

Raphael, a veteran of the Jordan Valley who has lived in the addict since 1989 and owns a coop and orchards in the Tomer and Naama moshavim, immediately complained to the police who arrived with the security forces to examine the findings. "The theft and vandalism we are experiencing here is an unbearable phenomenon that has existed for a long time," he told Ynet. "It starts with agricultural produce and continues with equipment and pesticides and water systems for irrigation. Almost every few days we hear about one case or another. If it is not with me, then it is with the neighbor. And if it is not with him - then with his neighbor."

Raphael said the damage this time was estimated at several thousand shekels, but in the past there have been cases where farmers have been hit with much larger sums. "Until this incident I had not come across swastikas or such shocking and frightening inscriptions," Raphael said this morning began to remove them. "You can't work like this, these are difficult mirrors."

Council Chairman David Elhayani said it was "agricultural terrorism" that is also taking place in the north and south of the country, and called for uprooting the phenomenon. "Beyond the thefts, we often encounter destruction when it is clear to everyone that the intent of the hate-filled perpetrator was in total destruction," Elhayani said. "The incident that happened on Saturday night, where in addition to the theft and destruction also spray-painted a swastika, is an alarming step up. We use most of the tools we have to provide protection and security to the residents, and work with security forces in the area."

Hadas Tzur Gozlan, the council's chief of staff, added: "We encounter hundreds of reported cases during the year of theft, destruction and agricultural crime, but beyond that there are many other unreported incidents due to the difficulty in finding the criminals. It must be said that these are not necessarily cases of theft, but many times we come across cases in which acts of demolition and damage to property are carried out. "

In recent months, there have been quite a few incidents in which Nazi symbols have been used in Jewish localities. It began with demonstrations by residents of the village of Beta, near the Eviatar outpost, and continued with Nazi flags on the way to the Chumash outpost. This time the phenomenon also reached the Jordan Valley, an area that has always been quieter than other sectors ... "Nearly 80% of the attacks in Judea and Samaria are carried out against Jewish farmers by Arab attackers," said the organization's chairman, Adv. Avichai Boaron.

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Packages with swastikas and the caption "Islamic Jihad" were thrown from a vehicle on the Trans-Judea Road - bomb disposal specialist on site, News 0404, 28/07/2019.

Police bomb squad were recently called to deal with the two packages suspected of being explosive devices thrown from a vehicle on the Trans-Judea Road. The packages have swastikas and the words 'Islamic Jihad' on them. Wires protrude from one of the packages - something that raises the suspicion of luggage.

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Swastika spray in front of the Zodiac Bridge (Jaffa) Hamal, Oct 6, 2018.

[Someone living on the area, commented:
Not new. Every night fireworks are intentionally fired, riding with loud Arabic music at night intentionally interfere with sleep, sitting in gardens, starting with the Jewish girls and more and more.]

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Infamous "Palestinian" Anerican SJP "activist" Nerdeen Kiswani (with others) disrupts auchwitz planned commemoration. Jan 22, 2015.

J. K., VIDEOS: Pro-Palestinians Disrupt City Council Meeting, JPupdates, Jan 22, 2015.

Council member Cory Johnson called it “incredibly disrespectful and offensive. Simply awful.” Councilman Mark Weprin added, “The State of Israel has never supported the killing of innocent people, and they want to love in peace.”

“I am still shaken, upset and angry,” Councilman David Greenfield. “While we were discussing a resolution regarding the murder of 1.1 million human beings – I will point out that 90 percent of them were Jewish, but the other 10 percent, they were political dissidents .. those were the people who were being killed together at Auschwitz-Birkenau. While we were discussing that, they had the chutzpah, the nerve, the temerity, to unfurl a Palestinian flag and yell at us.”

“But I’m pleased, because we can stop pretending that this is about Israel. What we saw here was naked, blind antisemitism, good old fashioned antisemitism,” Greenfield roared. “That’s what you saw, and that’s what you watched, and that’s what you witnessed – people who were upset for one reason. Do you want to know why they’re upset, do you want to know why they’re angry, do you want to know why they unfurled that flag today? Because Hitler did not finish the job. He only wiped out half of my family.”

The trip to Israel is a message that “we will not be cowered by this fear and hatred,” he added.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito went over to Greenfield and shook his hand as an expression of support.

Republican Council member Eric Ulrich also took the mic to state that “to be pro Israel you don’t have to be Jewish.” “Israel is a vibrant democracy and I’m proud to go back to Israel again. I will not be intimidated by the hecklers. I will not sit here and allow people to attack the Jews.” Ulrich said.

Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said in an emailed statement, “At a time when the Council was voting on a resolution commemorating the 70thanniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, this outburst was offensive, outrageous and counter to the values of the City Council.”...

[via Twitter/@NerdeenKiswani]