(Photo: Ahikam Sari/Haaretz)
Following a Jerusalem demonstration at which hundreds of settlers picketed a government decision to evict the illegal outpost of Ulpana, on Thursday night an enraged rightist lashed out with “price tag” attacks on Israel’s only bi-national village. The rightist slashed tires and painted graffiti in Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam, and left cryptic messages to residents.
“Death to Arabs” graffiti on cars. (Photo: Gil Yohanan/YNet News)
In the village parking lot, vandals slit tires on 14 cars and graffiti painted “revenge,” “death to Arabs,” and “regards from Ulpana,” according to Ynet News. Haaretz also reported the extremist defaced cars with the tag “[Meir] Kahane was right.”
Vandals also left threats on the town’s elementary school, marking the School for Peace with “revenge” and “regards from Havat Gilad,” the name of an illegal settlement. The School for Peace is one of the few educational institutions in Israel that offers a bi-national curriculum and teaches Palestinian history to all of its students. The school’s website boasts the community is comprised of “Palestinians and Jews, citizens of Israel, who have chosen to create a shared community to challenge the existing structure of relations between Arabs and Jews and to seek more egalitarian models that can break down the inbuilt asymmetry in Israeli society as it is now.”
Where’s the Israeli government’s statement on this? the ADL? There’s total silence from all the usual suspects.
One swastika spray-painted on one synagogue window anywhere in the world would have the leaders of the Jewish community fuming with self-righteousness.
This was a violent attack intended to terrorize innocent civilians for their political stances and way of life.
Israel and the Jewish community sees nothing noteworthy about this attack.
Riding buses in Israel this past spring, on several occasions I noticed teenagers wearing sweatshirts bearing the statement in Hebrew: “Kahana Tzadak” (Kahana Was Right).
If Palestinians carried out such vandalism, all the Western ‘news’ outlets would have reported it, from NBC and CNN to BBC and NPR.
And Foxman and Dershowitz would have soiled their drawers as they foamed at the mouth expressing self-righteous indignation.
I bet a shill or two in Congress would have stood up and given a speech about what the president “must do” and “should do” to protect Israel.
Please translate, each picture, precisely. We are at an Enlglish language internet site (not at MEMRI).
yossi gurvitz wrote about this today in Netanyahu uses illegal settlement affair to teach leftists a lesson
http://972mag.com/netanyahu-uses-illegal-settlement-affair-to-teach-leftists-a-lesson/47855/
this whole price tag thing is really sadistic.i keep coming back to that word lately.
They blatantly show who they are & where they are from which only goes to prove the so called authority in “Israel” is complicit in these crimes.