Tomorrow there will be a demonstration by Jewish settlers demanding segregation of bus lines in the occupied West Bank. The settlers express racist fears of Palestinians. Their flyer portrays integrated buses as a suicide bomb waiting to happen.
The Facebook page is here, in Hebrew, posted by the “community organisation for the ‘Shomron/Samaria Settlers.'” They publicize the video below, which purports to show a Jewish woman (she’s the only one in Technicolor, the Palestinians are in black and white) getting off a bus filled with “Arabs.”
Would you be willing to allow your daughter to go on this bus? Please Watch the video and share it with all… Thursday we have a demo in Ariel, be there with us.
“The demand in the headline of the flyer is ‘safe transportation for our children,'” Ofer Neiman says. “Ony in one place do they explicitly state ‘…and we will demand a ban on [Palestinian] workers taking Israeli public transportation.’ They accuse the Israeli Ministry of Defense of giving in to international pressure and allowing the workers on the buses. Somewhat funny: they also say ‘and the Palestinian workers have discovered the subsidizing [of Israeli public transportation to the settlements].'”
The organizers insist they are not racist but only concerned with security and there should be transportation for “each sector.” More from a translation that a Hebrew-speaker says is accurate:
This is our reality in Samaria. Day after day. In the name of justice and fraternity are filled with hundreds of buses to Samaria to Arab workers, some of them illegal aliens every day. Public transport users rarely do so because of this fact. Here’s the video of this girl out on a packed bus in the evenings. It’s not about racism, it is simple to do with the question, are you ready to ride on a bus like that? [Demonstrate in Ariel for] clean and safe transportation for our children. We have no problem to have transportation for each sector and gender, but we will not be ready in the name of justice perverted to allow our children and our women to travel on public transport to Samaria.
A second message:
Residents of Ariel, Samaria require to return the public transport to residents The Young Ariel and and Samaria settlers’ forum invites you in view of the sad reality that we inhabitants and settlers in Ariel, Samaria we have become prisoners in our city due to the security risk to existing public transport where every day hundreds of illegal Palestinians take the bus, endangering the.. citizens
We decided to take action !!! Palestinian workers discovered the breach of security in Israel are somehow sneak through, but without control the illegal Palestinians are seen every day on public transport and endangering an entire community. To prevent the next attack, not to mention the next bus hijacking campaign we are going to answer the sense of security to the public reading of public transport to return the citizens and residents of Ariel environment and ban the illegal aliens who endanger us all!!! It is important to say that the situation on the ground is the result of international pressure and the Defense Department policy that allows workers to board unchecked public transportation. Mothers are afraid to send their children to the bus, and this situation must stop!! To be wise in retrospect we should educate and prevent the next attack whatever. We call all of you to come and join us on Thursday, at 18:00 04/09 intersection at the entrance to Ariel Square to protest the serious security situation and demand working together to ban travel to transport.
The organizers are getting a lot of pushback in comments at Facebook, including from Israelis who say such a policy will hurt the country’s image internationally.
These illegals have no shortage of chutzpah/racism/projection/denial of their culpability, do they?
(It ain’t ‘Samaria’…)
this makes my blood boil.
The rapist demands that kidnapping and raping women be made safer for him.
LOL
They are thieves living on stolen land that The Z-Cult, Mafia, Inc. stole for them.
They don’t feel near the fear they deserve to feel.
Palestinians and Jewish settlers already have segregated courts, municipalities, elections and security forces in “Samaria”. And some worry that segregated buses will hurt Israel’s image? Grand apartheid without petty apartheid is still apartheid.
The video did not play when I hit the play button. Jim Crow all the way. Always interesting that the settlers (any from US, e.g., Brooklyn) don’t care about Israel’s PR image, but many Israelis do? Redneck Jim Crow must be nodding along, laughing. Imagine a reality cable TV show in America, staring these settlers!