Ma’an, the independent Palestinian news agency, published an article saying that “448 settlers stormed the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque” in the past week.
In English, this means that 448 Jews visited the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. This week there were more Jewish visitors than usual because election day is a holiday in Israel.
Ma’an goes on: “Hundreds of settlers, accompanied by Jewish rabbis, stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa and performed Talmudic rituals, with security protection from the occupation forces.”
In case that doesn’t anger the Arab audience of the article enough, they published a photo of these storming settlers.
Palestine Today added more of what they consider incendiary images of Jews taking photos in front of the Dome of the Rock, the site where the Jewish Temples were built and destroyed:
Now keep in mind that photos like this are taken all the time by Christian visitors:
And Muslims take tons of photos – and their selfies can even be taken at night when non-Muslims are banned from the site:
Yet the photos of Christians and Muslims happily posing in front of the iconic dome are not front page news, anywhere.
Only Jews taking the same types of photos, in the same spot, with the same smiles, causes Arabs, Muslims and their fellow travelers to become enraged.
The Arab articles about “storming settlers” invariably mention that they are protected by a group of armed Israeli police.
Now, why is that?
Because religious Jews visiting the site without that protection would be lynched by crowds of Muslims who are incited to murder by daily exposure to articles like this! Arabs are fed a steady diet of incitement, demonizing any Jew who dares to visit the site that was the site of Solomon’s Temple 1600 years before Islam existed.
If this isn’t antisemitism, what is?
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