There are dozens of articles in Arab media over the past two days that have the identical headline (and mostly identical text): “Settlers perform provocative dances in the Old City” of Jerusalem.
Jewish settlers continued, this evening, Wednesday, their provocative dances on Bab Al-Wad Road in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.And Jerusalem sources reported that settlers stormed the Old City in groups, and performed provocative dances on Bab al-Wad Road for the fourth consecutive day.
Here are the “provocative” dances:
They are singing a Chanukah soong.
It is worth reiterating what these headlines mean.
Palestinian media thinks that Jewish celebrations are not just celebrations, but are deliberately done to provoke Palestinian Arab feelings. This is a combination of antisemitism (Jews only use their holidays to hurt people) and egocentrism (Jews spend all their time thinking about Palestinians.)
But also they say that all these Jews are “settlers,” meaning that they do not belong in Jerusalem or in the Middle East to begin with.
A similar headline: “Fanatic
This Jew-hatred is so pervasive that people don’t even bother to call it out. But the pervasiveness is the point: Palestinians are brought up with antisemitism, from their media, their schools, their families.
Saying that Jewish celebrations are really excused to hurt others is antisemitism. And it is the headline in dozens of Palestinian news sites, today.
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