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Viciously Attacking Israeli Arabs - by Stephen Lendman
Reminiscent of Kristallnacht violence, Israeli Arabs in Haifa District's Umm al-Fahm community were attacked, Haaretz writers Fadi Eyadat, Jack Khoury, and Chaim Levinson headlining, "Police clash with Arab protesters as rightists rally in Umm al-Fahm," saying:
In Arab Umm al-Fahm, "Dozens of extreme rightists (hooligan West Bank settlers) held a protest against the Islamic Movement," an initiative advocating Islam among Israeli Arabs on three levels - religious, social, and support for Palestinian self-determination.
Clashes followed, pitting Arab residents against 1,500 police, including special paramilitary and undercover forces, aiding hooliganism, "fir(ing) tear gas and stun grenades" to scatter crowds. Nine Arab residents were arrested, portrayed as instigators when they responded in self-defense.
Haaretz said about "30 right-wing demonstrators traveled in buses from Jerusalem to Umm al-Fahm on (October 27), led by far-right activists Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir." Their purpose - in league with police, to hold a provocative demonstration march to incite violence, calling on Israel to outlaw the Islamic Movement (headquartered in Umm al-Fahm), as well as condemn Sheikh Raed Salah's (its leader) Gaza Freedom Flotilla participation.
Head of the religious Jewish National Front party, Marzel is a notorious bigot, a man saying he was Rabbi Meir Kahana's "right hand man" - Kahana, the extreme racist former Kach party head until Israel banned it in 1988, calling it a "threat to security." Gviv is a Knesset aide to MK Michael Ben-Ari (a protest march participant), and spokesman for Marzel's Jewish National Front party. Both men are fascists.
Their actions, and others like them, defile core Judaic tenets. Exhibit A - holding a provocative/racist/violent rally in an Arab community where they're not wanted and don't belong. It was held close the 20th November 5 anniversary of Kahana's assassination, a man who lived and died by the sword, a rabbi in name only.
On October 27, Al-Jazeerah covered the incident headlining, "Israeli Occupation Forces Attack Palestinians in Um Al-Fahm, During a Provocative March by Fascist Israeli Settlers," saying:
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