Amjad Shbita, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, an activist in the Israeli Hadash-Maki party (Jewish and Palestinian socialists), who has also worked at the Knesset as a parliamentary assistant, introduces this harrowing account on Facebook by asking a theoretical question:
“Fascists in a colonial regime? Is that a historical precedent?”
The account was written by Nijmeh Ali, a woman. It follows, in translation:
“The light train in Jerusalem. I am sitting quietly. Some yelling is heard and the train gets stuck. Hundreds, maybe thousands are banging on the windows of the train. “Death to the Arabs”, they are chanting. I am scared. I hide behind my sunglasses. I pray that they will not recognize my nationality. A woman is crying, screaming hysterically from the rear seats. I run towards her. She is a young mother with a head scarf. She is holding a 5 year old boy. Another woman is pushing her, wanting to forcibly shove her out of the train. Thousands are banging on the windows, baying for blood, and that woman wants to sacrifice the young mother. “She has no place with us, they murdered three of our sons”. Is she the one who murdered your sons? Did her son murder them? She keeps yelling, the thousands keep banging on the windows. A terrifying sight, nothing is more frightening, and the thundering silence of tens of passengers on the train, as if nothing happened!
These were the longest 12 minutes of my life. 12 minutes on the road to a lynching.”
“Israeli woman pushes Palestinian woman into water
This video is not particularly graphic, but it is shocking for the underlying hatred this act of violence reveals.
It was posted on the Israeli “StatusHunter” Facebook page on 4 July with a comment from Facebook user Daniel Libman:
For whoever still needs proof of how sick our country is, here’s this video. The place: Sakhne [hot springs in the north of present-day Israel]. What happened: a Jewish woman pushes an Arab woman into the water, just because. The video was uploaded by May Nachman. When asked in a comment if the woman she shoved was elderly, she responded, “No just some effing Arab, 30 years old tops.” To someone who commented that it was inappropriate she responded: “Have a laugh, don’t be square.” After a few more LOL-type comments she added: “If I get kidnapped because of this clip, come and save me.”
This example of every day contempt and racism towards Palestinians in Israel, including citizens, comes amid a growing atmosphere of incitement and anti-Arab protests.
With thanks to Ofer Naiman.”
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-shoves-palestinian-woman-lake-just-because
No, the film of the lake pushing isn’t graphic but I did notice that it was two women, not one They stand on either side of the victim and while one distracts her the other pushes her into the lake.
That’s how bullies operate, they can’t do one on one its always 2 or 3 or a 12 on one.
Lynch mobs, burning, scapegoating, destroying property and life with impunity. The bitter fruit of the Klu Klux Klan reborn in Israel should be the obvious message to Americans who have even a passing acquaintance with their history.
What the hell, there is no end to the racism coming from Israel!?
A demon was unleashed May 15th 1948 when it wasn’t stopped from exceeding its boundaries, now its children watch and learn