Palestinian woman attacked by a group of Jewish religious students Feb.25, 2013 (Photo:Dorit Jordan Dotan)
The Israeli press reported two separate disturbing incidents in which a large group of Jewish youths attacked defenseless Palestinians. Both incidents may have been fueled by alcohol and connected to Purim holiday celebrations.
A street cleaner named, Hassan Usraf, told police he was brutally beaten by about 20 young Jewish men while working early Sunday morning in Tel Aviv. The victim suffered multiple facial cuts, skull fractures and an eye injury as a result of the attack. He is in a hospital in serious condition awaiting eye surgery. Usraf’s wife reported that the youths told her husband that the reason for the assault was that, “He was an Arab.” No suspects have been apprehended. Usraf described his assailants as drunk. The police surmised that the youths had been participating in Purim celebrations during the evening.
On Monday afternoon, a Palestinian woman was attacked by a group of young Jewish female religious students at a railroad station in Jerusalem, according to an eyewitness. Dorit Dotan, who photographed the incident, said that the victim was repeatedly pushed and that her head covering was pulled off. According to Dotan, a railroad security guard watched the incident smiling and did nothing to intervene. There were about 100 people at the station who also passively watched, she said. Dotan also said that the attackers had “drunk much wine because of Purim.” The assailants boarded a train, leaving a stunned and angry victim and her elderly Palestinian companion at the station. Further details about what led to the altercation or the identity of those involved are not known. The police have opened an investigation, although no complaint has been reported.
Ahmed Tibi, a leading Israeli-Palestinian member of the Knesset, said, relating specifically to the railway station attack, “The recent increase in attacks against Arabs is a symptom of a racist and intolerant society. We are not speaking about drunks, but of racist thugs that the police must arrest and bring to justice.”
The sources of this post are the Israeli news websites: Ynetnews, Ha’aretz (Hebrew), Walla (Hebrew) and NRG (Hebrew).
Just like the IDF in the OT when the settler lunatics harass and assault Palestinian men, women, and children.
This hate is so ingrained into Israelis.
There’s a story covered by 972+ about a Palestinian student who was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers from Hebrew Univ. or something. The student is an activist and is being held without charges (as usual).
The response from a Jewish commentator was to sarcastically say, ‘boo hoo, it’s as bad as Treblinka’ or something.
So it’s nothing for us ‘Leftists’/’Arab lovers’ to worry about since it’s not the Holocaust.
Total absurd non sequitur that only hysterical ethnic nationalists espouse because they are so mentally handicapped/incapable of honest discourse.
Easter Passion-play pogroms : Medieval Europe :: Purim race attacks : Modern-day israel.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Here are updates on the two incidents.
130 protesters (apparently mostly Jewish) urged police to expedite their investigation into the attack on Hasan Usraf.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4349411,00.html
A police officer was dismissed after he wrote on Facebook, referring to the victim in the railway station attack, “Too bad the Arab whore did not die.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4350410,00.html
Pictures of the attack in Jerusalem and of Hassan Ushraf in the hospital are at the source links at the end of the article.
14 very disturbing photographs of the attack at the Kiryat Moshe railway station from the Facebook page of eyewitness, Dorit Jordan Dotan, who photographed the incident.
https://www.facebook.com/JordanDotanPHOTOGRAPHY
Click on the small photo of the incident on the left hand side.
The attackers are apparently students at a nearby religious school, so it should not be too difficult for the police to identify them. I hope that the victim or her companion will come forward and make a formal complaint.
These attacks are racially motivated crimes which must be diligently pursued by the police. These young thugs must be held accountable for there deeds. If they are not, it will only encourage more racism in a society already plagued by an institutional hatred an the Palestinians.
Day by day, the mask is slipping from the face of ‘the Middle East’s only democracy’. How long can the hasbarists try to convince us that these ever more frequent incidents are the work of ‘bad apples’ and do not reflect Israeli society as a whole? Can you imagine if a group of Palestinians grabbed a Jewish womand and tried to pull off her wig? It would be all over the Western media, and there’d be no excuses about ‘drunkenness’ or ‘high feelings’.