JERUSALEM FALLOUT: Arab Students at Tel-Aviv University Call for “Intifada”

Arab students at Tel-Aviv University called for”Intifada” against Israel during a protest held last week at the university’s campus in response to President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

“With spirit and blood we will redeem you, Al-Aqsa; We will fight and teach them a lesson via the sword and force; We will school them through the ways of Intifada; Israel is a terror state; Resist, resist,” were among the slogans chanted by some 50 Arab students who gathered at the university’s Entin Square to protest.

A counter demonstration was held by activists from the Zionist organization Im Tirtzu, who waved Israeli flags and sang Israeli songs including “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem, and “Jerusalem of Gold.”

Last week, Arab students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem held a protest where they issued calls including “Zionists leave, our land is Arab and free” and “Palestine is Arab from the river to the sea.” The protest was joined by Joint List MK Yousef Jabareen who told the protesters to be “proud of our struggle.”




Similar protests were also held last week by Arab students at Ben-Gurion University and Haifa University.

“What we have seen take place on Israeli campuses over the past week is disgraceful,” said Im Tirtzu Chairman Matan Peleg. “On campus grounds, students are openly inciting violence and are calling for the destruction of the State of Israel with impunity. This is a dangerous precedent that will result in violence if not stopped immediately by the heads of the universities.”

“The writing is on the wall and we cannot ignore it,” Peleg added.

Jordan Remains at War with Israel

Reports suggest that King Abdullah of Jordan is angry at Netanyahu for publicly praising the Israeli embassy security guard who was stabbed earlier in the week in Amman.

“This kind of behavior — which is unacceptable and provocative on all levels — has made us all angry… and feeds extremism in the region,” the King said of Netanyahu.

“The Israeli prime minister is obligated to act responsibly and prosecute the murderer, instead of exploiting the crime for internal political purposes,” he added.

Of course none of this should surprise those who are avid watchers of the Hashemite family and their dealings in Jordan.

Caroline Glick wrote the following in March:

“The Muslim Brotherhood is the second largest political force in the country. Although Jordanians were revolted in 2015 when Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria burned alive a downed Jordanian pilot, ISIS has no shortage of sympathizers in wide swaths of Jordanian society. More than 2,000 Jordanians joined ISIS in Syria and several thousand more ISIS members and sympathizers are at large throughout the kingdom.”

The King has become adept in playing all sides. When he needs to fan the flames of hate to the Jewish people he does. The opposite is also true. When he needs help against challengers to the throne, he ends up asks America for help.

The peace treaty signed in 1994 has grown more and more worthless as the King’s rhetoric continues to become far more radical than in the past.

Why is He Still King?

Israel and the USA feel they need King Abdullah on the thrown.  Essentially this boils down to dealing with the evil you know rather than the chaos you don’t. Israel has gone out of its way to ensre the King lives simply because the alternative is chaos. Jordan’s stability has been the hallmark of America’s foreign policy.

UNRWA Honors Jerusalem Bus Bomber; US & EU Pay the Bill

On April 18 Abd al-Hamid Abu Spour, a 19 year old Palestinian Arab destroyed two public transportation buses in Jerusalem. There were numerous injuries, two of which remain hospitalized, one with severe burns.  This was the first bus attack during the 7+ month long intifada being waged against Israeli’s, which has resulted in at least 34 deaths to date.

The one person killed in the attack was the perpetrator himself. All Palestinian factions welcomed the attack. In the eyes of many Muslims, dying while committing a terror attack means Abu Spour is a “shahid,” or martyr for Allah.

His family has lashed out saying he acted in “self-defense,” and “only you Israelis are guilty.” Such inflammatory rhetoric while disturbing, is not unusual from many Arab Muslims.

However, in this case reaction to the attack has gone beyond the family. It has taken on an ‘official’ flavor.

On Monday, a week after the attack, a gathering took place at the UNRWA refugee camp in Aida, near Bethlehem. The location has a huge monument of a lock and key, symbolizing the defiant goal that the Palestinian Arabs will one day root out the Jews and take over the land they believe belongs to them.

The “festivities of the martyrs” event took place under the aegis of UNRWA (United Nations Relief Works Agency).  To think the official body representing the world’s community of nations is celebrating terrorism is bad enough. However, that is not the worst of it. The number 1 financial donor to UNRWA is the US, by far. The EU and UK are #2 and #3 in financial support. Their combined total represents over 50% of UNRWA’s donor support.

Virtually no media coverage

US & UK citizens should ask themselves how they feel about having their hard-earned taxes paying for events that honor terrorists.

Aside from this there is another troubling element to the UNRWA sponsored event.

One might think a public event honoring terrorism sponsored by a branch of the United Nations would be widely covered by the media. Yet, when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict most of the world’s media seems to come under a spell of double-standard. The abnormal becomes normal, the unacceptable turns into acceptable, and the victim is often seen as the bully.

There was virtually no media coverage of this publicly supported terrorist honoring event. One journalist- David Bedein who runs the Jerusalem based Israel Resource News Agency did send a crew to cover it. According to Bedein, the crew didn’t just cover the event; they are interviewing the family of the terrorist. Soon they plan to release a film that will be screened at a forthcoming session of the Middle East Subcommittee of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, when the debate on further US funds for UNRWA will be discussed.

On March 22, Bedein appeared in a closed session of that Middle East Subcommittee and suggested an UNRWA REFORM POLICY INITIATIVE formula as a new funding framework. This would make US financing for UNRWA contingent upon them taking concrete measures to assure transparency. It would also require a crackdown on UNRWA hosting terror entities in its midst, and the re-education UNRWA residents. Currently they are promised the “right of return” to villages that existed before 1948. The committee is chaired by Rep. Ilena Ros-Lehtinen (R) FL.

Senator Jim Risch (R- Idaho) chairman of the US Senate Subcommittee for the Near East, also met with Bedein in Washington. This week Senator Risch issued a statement that “we are looking to write a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to get them to update the audit of US monies that go both to UNRWA as well as funding for education related issues that the GAO had performed several years ago”.

Double-standard

Regarding media coverage, Bedein sent out a press release to over 600 journalists throughout Israel, informing them of the UNRWA event honoring the terrorist. Incredibly he received a reply from only one. This ‘yawn’ by the media is yet another disturbing reminder of the double-standard Israel receives from most of the world.

Picture this- Suppose there was an event held in the US at a public school, sponsored by the Dept. of Education (using taxpayer money) honoring the Muslim couple who murdered 14 people in San Bernardino last year? How much media coverage do you think there might be? Not only that, but those who were responsible for holding the event might be have some serious explaining to do, even in this era of political correctness.

Not so in the Arab-Israeli conflict where it appears the media seems to have largely taken up the narrative of the perpetrators of terrorism.

The US provides the Palestinian Authority over $400 million annually. Concern about the Palestinian educational system is growing in Congress.

US taxpayers have an opportunity to send a strong message opposing their tax money being used to honor terrorists who target innocent citizens of America’s strongest ally in the Middle East. They can contact the members of the Middle East Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, as well as the Near East Subcommittee in the Senate.

There is no moral equivalence between terror and justice. It’s high time the UN stop making an exception when it comes to Israel.

Today’s Terror News In Israel

A few of today’s headlines pertaining to the ongoing terror attacks in Israel:

A 60-year-old man was stabbed near Jerusalem’s Lion Gate by an 18-year-old Palestinian boy. After a long manhunt for the terrorist, Police found and arrested the boy who confessed to carrying out the attack. Another minor was arrested overnight for assisting the stabber.

Smuggling attempt foiled: Security forces foiled an attempt to smuggle four tons of chemicals that can be used to manufacture long-rang rockets, the security establishment announced Tuesday.
[The Jerusalem Post / Noam Amir]

An IDF court on Tuesday convicted 16-year-old Palestinian Morad Bader Abdullah Adais of the January killing of Israeli mother of six Dafna Meir.
[Times of Israel]

IDF destroys home of Zir Ziad Jamal Amar, one of the Hamas cell that murdered Eitam and Na’ama Henkin last October.
[Arutz Sheva]

The Hamas terrorist organization has published a periodic report on the Al-Quds Intifada, as it has termed the current Arab terror wave that has already claimed the lives of 34 victims since starting last September.
[Arutz Sheva]

A resident of East Jerusalem was reportedly arrested on suspicion of aiding the terrorist who killed an American tourist in Jaffa in March. Muhammad Awieda, who is in his 30s, is suspected of driving the stabber Bashar Massalha from the West Bank city of Qalqilya to Tel Aviv.
[Times of Israel]

It is clear the intifada attacks have not cooled down yet and that Israel’s government and security need to do more to protect its civilians by quelling Hamas’ leadership and implementing harsher punishments to terrorists and their immediate family members.

The Silent Intifada Weekly Report [April 28, 2016]

There were over 100 terror attacks this past week in Israel.

This week as almost every week there were dozens of terror attacks of varying severity not reported in most major media outlets. We report on these silenced events to present a fuller picture of the reality in Israel and balance the picture presented to innocent readers abroad. We hope that by reporting these incidents we can raise awareness so that actions can be taken to rectify this problem and improve reality in the Jewish State.

This past week (Friday April 22nd- Thursday April 28th) there were over 100 terror attacks recorded in the ‘Silent Intifada’ updates on Hakol Hayehudi. Among these were throwing of explosives (IEDs), attempted stabbings, and a number of incidents of throwing of stones and firebombs at individuals, homes, and vehicles.

At the Qalandiya checkpoint, an Arab man and woman attempted to stab border police officers. The officers called on the pair to stop, but when the pair failed to stop the officers opened fire on them.

There were four incidents in Gush Etzion and in the Shomron where Arabs through IEDs at IDF forces.

Full list of attacks:

Thursday April 28th

  • Arabs riot in Bitunia.
  • Arabs riot in Yavad in the Shomron.
  • Arabs rio tin Al-Hadr in Gush Etzion.
  • Arabs riot in Issawiya in Jerusalem.

12:43- Arabs throw firebombs at vehicles on Route 443.

12:42- Arabs riot in Shuafat in Jerusalem.

12:39- Arabs throw stones at the light rail in Shuafat in Jerusalem causing damage.

11:13- A pipebomb placed by Arabs is found near the fence of Arka.

10:51- Arabs set fires in the valley between Pisgat Zeev and Shuafat.

1:48- Dozens of Arabs riot on Aman Street in Shechem during a Jewish visit to Joseph’s Tomb.

Wednesday April 27th

  • Arabs riot in Dahiya.
  • Arabs riot near Armon Hanatziv in Jerusalem.
  • Arabs riot in Issawiya in Jerusalem.
  • Arabs riot near Beit El in Binyamin.
  • Arabs riot in Hizme in Binyamin.
  • Arabs riot in Sayir in Har Hevron.

22:37- Arabs throw firebombs at IDF forces in Nahlin in Gush Etzion.

22:15- Arabs throw stones at the light rail in Shuafat in Jerusalem.

21:46- Arabs throw firebombs at the fence of Beitar Illit.

18:38- Arabs throw stones at vehicles in Abu Tor in Jerusalem.

18:23- Arabs throw stones at vehicles in Ras Al Amud in Jerusalem.

18:04- Arabs throw firebombs at vehicles on the Husan Bypass Road.

15:35- Arabs throw stones at the fence of Kiryat Arba.

11:37- Arabs throw stones at vehicles near the Avraham Hasno Junction in Har Hevron.

10:49- Attempted stabbing: Two Arabs attempt to stab border police officers at the Qalandiya checkpoint.

Tuesday April 26th

  • Arabs riot in Beit Fajar in Gush Etzion.
  • Arabs riot in Abu Dis.
  • Arabs throw firebombs in Reches Shuafat.
  • Arabs throw stones in Al-Ram.
  • Arabs throw stones in Sultan Saliman.
  • Arabs throw stones in Tekoa.
  • Arabs throw stones in Abu Sanina.
  • Arabs throw stones in Tut Tarak.
  • Arabs throw stones in Ras Al amud.
  • Arabs throw stones in Yavad.

22:36- Arabs throw firebombs at vehicles on Route 446 near Shukba in Binymin.

21:24- Arabs throw stones at the light rail in Shuafat in Jerusalem causing damage.

15:07- Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Azun in the Shomron.

12:41- Arabs throw stones at a bus near Nazareth.

11:52- Arabs riot near Ofer Prison.

Monday April 25th

  • Arabs throw an IED at IDF forces.
  • Arabs throw stones in Ramat Shlomo in Jerusalem.
  • Arabs throw stones in Hevron.
  • Arabs throw stones in Hawara.
  • Arabs throw stones in Sebastia.
  • Arab throw firebombs in Shuafat.
  • Arabs throw stones in Wadi Fuchin.
  • Arabs throw stones in Hizme.
  • Arabs throw stones in Dahit Al-Barid.

23:07- Arabs riot near the Zeitim Crossing in Jerusalem.

23:06- Arabs throw firebombs near Maale Adumim.

22:44- Arabs throw firebombs at security forces in Al-Azariya.

22:25- Arabs riot in Ras Al Amud.

22:20- Arabs riot in Abu Dis.

21:39- Arabs throw stones at vehicles on Route 443.

21:35- Arabs throw stones at vehicles in the Jordan Valley near Uja.

20:50- Arabs riot in Qalandiya.

20:45- Arabs throw stones at vehicles on Route 443 near Beit Horon.

19:02- Arabs throw stones at the security fence of Kiryat Arba.

15:25- Arabs riot in Issawiya.

13:10- Arabs throw stones at vehicles on Route 443 near Beir Horon.

Sunday April 24th

  • Arabs throw firebombs in Harbat Tzafa.
  • Arabs throw stones in Issawiya.
  • Arabs throw stones in Al-Hadr.
  • Arabs throw firebombs near Har Bracha.
  • Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Halhul in Har Hevron.
  • Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Al-Hadr Junction in Gush Etzion.

20:43- Arabs throw an IED at IDF forces near Rachel’s Tomb.

10:06- Arabs throw stones at vehicles near Ikul Hamaayan in Gush Etzion.

Saturday April 23rd

  • Arabs riot in A-Ram in Binyamin.
  • Arabs riot in Bir Naballah.
  • Arabs throw firebombs at police in A-Tur in Jerusalem.
  • Arabs riot in Silwad near Ofra.
  • Arabs throw stones near Beit Umar.
  • Arabs throw stones in Kadum.
  • Arabs throw stones near Al-Hadr.
  • Arabs throw firebombs at security forces in A-Tur.

22:00- Arabs throw an IED at Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem.

Friday April 22nd

  • Arabs riot in Naalin.

17:16- Arabs throw stones at Turmus Junction.

12:59- Arabs throw stones near Kedumim.

10:50- Arabs throw stones at vehicles on the road to Halamish causing damage.

(Originally published on Hakol Hayehudi)