A message of anti-Islamic hatred on the streets of Jerusalem

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A friend just sent this photo from Jerusalem. Apparently the message reads, in Hebrew: "Sometimes it is necessary to remove the dome/skullcap" and shows a crane removing the dome from the Dome of the Rock. Taken by a "concerned citizen of Israel," who tells us this has become a prevalent message in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem sweatshirt Sweatshirt in Jerusalem

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  1. seafoid says:
    January 17, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    Project all this 10 years forward and what sort of a Jewish state will be left?

  2. DICKERSON3870 says:
    January 17, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    RE: “the message reads, in Hebrew: ‘Sometimes it is necessary to remove the dome/skullcap’ and shows a crane removing the dome from the Dome of the Rock.” ~ Weiss

    ALSO SEE: IDF rabbinate edits out Dome of the Rock from picture of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, By Gili Cohen, Haaretz, 01/05/12

    (excerpt) Israel’s military rabbinate released an educational document ahead of the holiday of Hanukkah last month, featuring a photo of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount without the Dome of the Rock, Haaretz learned on Thursday.
    The photo was featured in a packet prepared by the Military Rabbinate issued to Israel Defense Forces bases ahead of Hanukkah, under the section titled “The Festival of Jewish Heroism,” which included an article and a quiz on the Jewish struggle against Hellenistic rule.
    One reserves officer talking with Haaretz said that when he “received the materials from the battalion rabbi something seemed strange about that picture.”
    “We get material from the rabbinate every week and it’s mostly positive things,” the IDF officer said, adding that the edited picture was part of an “official release, which is why it’s problematic the army is distributing it.” …

    SOURCE – link to haaretz.com

    • mudder says:
      January 17, 2012 at 6:57 pm

      The original doctored photo was used by CUFI, John Hagee’s outfit, nearly five years ago. Hal Lindsey, the father of apocalyptic Christian Zionism, wrote 35 years ago that the Temple must be rebuilt before the rapture and that destruction of the Dome of the Rock was necessary for the rebuilding of the Temple.

      • dumvitaestspesest says:
        January 17, 2012 at 7:20 pm

        That’s why there is such a rush to clear East Jerusalem of the Palestinian population?? Space is needed to rebulid the III- rd Temple??
        All roads/signs lead to Rome, that is ,the Temple.
        Recently ,there was a post about a photo from which the Dome of Rock was removed.
        Ay vey, what is going on in this , uncertain world??

  3. seafoid says:
    January 18, 2012 at 5:59 am

    The religious nuts are incredibly dangerous

    link to haaretz.com

    Interior Minister Eli Yishai declared this week that the Israel Defense Forces failed in the Second Lebanon War because soldiers did not pray or “raise their eyes to God”, Channel 10 reported on Tuesday.

  4. jonah says:
    January 18, 2012 at 9:57 am

    Does the reality hurt? Maybe can the message pass through without the link, to make it more ‘palatable’?

    So again: here is a message of anti-Jewish incitement during a recent official Fatah celebration (source pmw.org, there is also a video for the Arabic speaking persons).

    “The following is an excerpt from the Fatah ceremony broadcast on PA TV:
    Moderator at Fatah ceremony:
    “Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs (i.e., Jews)
    is a war of religion and faith.
    Long Live Fatah! [I invite you,] our honorable Sheikh.”

    PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein comes to the podium and says:
    “47 years ago the [Fatah] revolution started. Which revolution? The modern revolution of the Palestinian people’s history. In fact, Palestine in its entirety is a revolution, since [Caliph] Umar came [to conquer Jerusalem, 637 CE], and continuing today, and until the End of Days. The reliable Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), [found] in the two reliable collections, Bukhari and Muslim, says:
    “The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews.
    The Jew will hide behind stones or trees.
    Then the stones or trees will call:
    ‘Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’
    Except the Gharqad tree [which will keep silent].”
    Therefore it is no wonder that you see Gharqad [trees]
    surrounding the [Israeli] settlements and colonies..”
    [PA TV (Fatah), Jan. 9, 2012]”

    When will you also confront the problem of anti-Semitism in Palestinian politics and society? Or do you think that a sweatshirt in Jerusalem showing the removal of the dome’s ‘skullcap’ is a more offensive and serious crime than open incitement to kill Jews promoted in official events by the Palestinian Authority (not to mention Hamas’)?!? What do you think about this?

  5. Chu says:
    January 18, 2012 at 10:39 am

    you reap what you sow.

    • Chu says:
      January 18, 2012 at 11:45 am

      One shot, two kills…
      That was an even more soulless Israeli T-shirt.

      Israel society gives the outside world the impression
      that they are collective of weirdos when they casually
      walk around any town square with this racist messaging.

      I recall kids wearing shirts in NY that said Hitler World
      Tour, and the media trounced on this story in a flash.
      The media helped to shun this sick behavior.

      But there isn’t much discussion coming from Israel
      about this type of overt and public hatred donned
      through bad fashion statements?
      It’s not only racist, it’s uncouth.

      • Avi_G. says:
        January 18, 2012 at 1:00 pm

        eee says:
        January 18, 2012 at 12:37 pm

        There is freedom of speech in Israel

        That so-called freedom of speech extends to the Jewish-only majority in Israel. And even then, Jews who dare undermine the Zionist enterprise are oppressed for their views.

        Just let me understand, when most if not all Arab societies do virtually nothing about honor killings is that “uncouth” also?

        That’s a bigoted generalization. The fact of the matter is that you know nothing about Arab society. What miniscule knowledge you have is in the form of Islamophobic and Orientalist propaganda.

      • Chu says:
        January 18, 2012 at 1:51 pm

        If an Arab wore a shirt like that about Yad Vashem, he be accosted by the mob and likely arrested. You’re kidding yourself that there is freedom.
        There is freedom of speech to Jews in Israel.

        It’s mob rule there, as they rule in most scenarios, but you’re inside the mob. It’s hard to see things objectively.

    • kalithea says:
      January 18, 2012 at 12:15 pm

      No, I think you invaded them, murdered them, chased hundreds of thousands out, exploded and burned their villages to the ground so they couldn’t return, stole their land and now they hate you.

      Normal human reaction to crimes against humanity.

      • Annie Robbins says:
        January 18, 2012 at 1:15 pm

        It is not healthy to carry a multi-generational grudge
        dude, when they are still be ethnically cleansed? or haven’t you heard?

        link to 972mag.com

      • aiman says:
        January 18, 2012 at 8:05 pm

        “If you carry a multi-generational grudge, you are not going to be able to reach a peace agreement.”

        The word “agreement” in the phrase “peace agreement” is superfluous and blinding. Peace does not require agreement and certainly not when one side holds much of the power, feels it is entitled to that power and spends its agency in pursuit of further power. In this scenario agreement can only be coerced. Although the generation that did not directly create dispossession is not responsible, it is ethically obliged to consider the past and as in the case of this the proof of the past, actual breathing human beings, are PRESENTLY being affected with the new generation not merely present but in command of the dispossession it is their moral duty to fight for equal rights of fellow human beings and condemn the past. This has never happened before in human history because right-minded people have always been trodden upon by those who do not wish to relinquish or temper that power. This is why you cannot reach a “peace agreement” in this scenario and it is also dominant power that creates factory farms and sweatshops. This applies to not just Israel but all political oppressions. Power can be swayed both by the agency of the oppressed and those around the world who are not corrupted by the comfort of silence or apathy.

      • Opti says:
        January 19, 2012 at 3:17 am

        THIS SENTIMENT EPITOMIZES ISRAEL — and the lack of peace…

        Spot on, eee. Until Israel publicly recognizes that it massacred, raped, destroyed, ethnically cleansed, and stole the land of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs from 1947-1954, there will be no peace. Until Israel deals with its collective denial of war crimes, there will be no peace. Until Israel grants full Right of Return of Refugees (or reasonable compensation), there will be no peace.

        NB! Israel are great at carrying multi-generational grudges themselves: “[In 2005], the Israeli government calling for Germany to take over responsibility for restitution payments that had been ignored by East Germany in the sum of around $500 million”
        link to spiegel.de

        Every Israeli war has been a war of choice — not survival — and to nonchalantly equate the two sides in the conflict show a gross neglect of history and dangerous lack of humanity. Shame on you, Zionism.

    • dahoit says:
      January 19, 2012 at 11:30 am

      That’s funny,like they initiated some European and Zionist destruction of their homeland,to be uprooted and killed.
      Madness ,sheer madness,spewed by morons of exclusivity,comfortable in the prison of their own devise.

  6. eljay says:
    January 18, 2012 at 10:44 am

    >> Extremism breeds extremism.

    From the mouths of Zio-supremacists…

  7. eljay says:
    January 18, 2012 at 10:47 am

    >> Apparently the message reads, in Hebrew: “Sometimes it is necessary to remove the dome/skullcap” and shows a crane removing the dome from the Dome of the Rock.

    That sure doesn’t look like a “better argument”. Must be because Israelis suffer from a Holocaust-related “collective psychological complex”.

  8. jonah says:
    January 18, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    you reap what you sow

    Are you saying that removing the skullcap from the Dome of the Rock is a legitimate act, since the Palestinians never stopped to incite to kill the Jews and this goal will still remain their priority in future? And are you saying that Israel should continue to settle Judea and Samaria, since the Palestinian authority promotes events which can be considered a declaration of war against any presence of Jews in ME? You reap what you sow. Is this what you want to suggest?

    BTW Chu, is it really clear to you that the Mufti in his sermon is referring to an old traditional religious Hadith according to which the Muslims have an Islamic obbligation to kill the Jews? That this Hadith, promoted during official Palestinian cerimonies and broadcasted on the PA (Fatah) television, is much earlier than the state of Israel and that it targets all the Jews indiscriminately? That this is anti-Semitism to the core, promoted by that same Palestinian authority which claims to be a reliable peace partner for a two-state-solution in the eyes of the West?

    Are you now able to get the implications of your self-righteous reap-and-sow-maxim, or do you still think that promoting religious anti-Semitism as political tool against the existence of the Jews in “Palestine” is a legitimate act?

  9. jonah says:
    January 18, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    And yes, eee. This seems to be a very sensitive and embarassing topic for the pro-Palestinian anti-Zionist discourse indeed. Chu’s so eloquent maxim “you reap what you sow” justifies implicitly that even religious anti-Semitism as political means to fight Jews indiscriminately is legitimate.

    Is this sane? I don’t think so and I believe that this casts a pretty grim light not only on the Palestinian Authority which plays the trustworthy partner for peace (at least in front of Western cameras), while it promoting the ugliest anti-Semitic hatred to its people; but also on the anti-Zionist movement, which can not distance itself from this kind of despicable attitude because this would probably turn upside down their very ideological premises. If they are for justice, peace and human rights, why this embarassed silence, even veiled justification?

    It’s pathetic.

    • Annie Robbins says:
      January 18, 2012 at 2:45 pm

      link to washingtonpost.com

      Israel murders 2, wounds 2 in northern Gaza Strip

      Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia said two people, one of them a 17-year-old youth, were killed. Two other men were wounded. He said the victims were unarmed, and relatives of the dead men said they were setting traps for birds near the buffer zone.

      No militant group claimed them as members.

    • dahoit says:
      January 19, 2012 at 11:24 am

      What is pathetic is the failure to remove the mote from ones own eye,a repeated human failure from Zionists.
      And I’m curious,why is this endemic?What causes self proclaimed noble people to collectively refuse to remove that mote?
      Insanity?

  10. thankgodimatheist says:
    January 18, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    More than Islamophobia. This is barbarism. The dome is over 1300 years old. An attack on it is an attack on humanity’s cultural heritage similar to the Taliban blowing up Buddha’s statues in Afghanistan. Israelis and Talibans “kif kif bourricot”( pardon my French)..

    • dahoit says:
      January 19, 2012 at 11:41 am

      A little different,as there are few Buddhists left in Afghanistan,and many Muslims still in Palestine or Israel.
      I believe most of the inhabitants of modern Afghanistan are Muslim,so a destruction of a foreign and ancient Buddhist statue which they believe is idolatory just might be their affair,unless we own the world.

  11. aiman says:
    January 18, 2012 at 7:32 pm

    eee,

    “Pointing out Islamic hatred by Jews is fine I guess, but pointing out Jew hatred by Islamic Palestinians, let alone their leaders is censored. Why is that?”

    Perhaps you should phrase it better. I know it is in vogue to say “Islamic” this and that. We don’t say “Judaic” this and that. “Jew” relates to “Muslim” not “Islam”. Also “Islamic Palestinians” buys into the thesis of a separate humanity as distinct from “Judaic Israel”. These ideas are entrenched in the writings of Bernard Lewis, motivated by political capital for Israel’s image as a member of the Judeo-Christian tribe following the new location of the diaspora amid new people and unfortunately many on the western left have failed to challenge them and have been appropriated in our media and cultural discourse. Even liberal Zionists like Amos Oz believe in it as did the reactionary and shallow Muslim theologians like Maududi and Qutb who conveyed very similar ideas for Muslims that Zionists do for Jews, as a form of aggressive identity following some great political upheavals.

  12. shawket says:
    January 19, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    This kind of stuff happens all the time in Jerusalem. There are posters and advertisements all over the place telling people not to rent apartments to Arabs. Can you imagine if similar posters in New York City said not to rent apartments to blacks? Or Jews? And no one is saying a god damn thing. They aren’t even trying to be subtle anymore about being racists.