Jerusalem – Two Jewish visitors were arrested on the Temple Mount on Sunday morning for incitement and disturbing the public order, police said.
One suspect reportedly exclaimed “Mohammad is a pig,” after being insulted by an Arab mob shouting anti-Semitic slurs, while the second Jewish suspect, a 14-year-old boy, was arrested for incitement for donning his tzittzit over his shirt.
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Sunday’s arrest marks the fourth time in less than one month that a Jew has been arrested for slandering the Prophet Muhammad amid hostile Muslim groups heckling and espousing equally offense anti-Semitic invective against Jewish visitors.
On the heels of Sunday’s arrests, Emek Shaveh, a left-wing consortium of archeologists, claimed tensions were further inflamed when government inspectors from the Nature and Parks Authority began fencing-off a Muslim cemetery adjacent to the Temple Mount.
According to a statement issued by the NGO, the cemetery, known as Bab al-Rahmeh, is being cordoned off as a means to limit the number of Muslims near the contested holy site, and to cease the cemetery’s eastward expansion.
“We understand these works as continuing the trend to limit the non-Jewish presence around the holy compound, and part of a long struggle between settlers and Palestinians over control of the eastern wall of the esplanade,” the statement said.
“In response to the works today, Emek Shaveh contacted the legal department of the NPA, asking whether the work is coordinated with the Israel Antiquities Authority. If not, the concern is that the NPA itself is harming the antiques.”
Noting that the cemetery has long served as a flashpoint in Arab and Jewish tensions, the European-funded NGO stated that the fence breaches “the delicate status quo between the Israeli authorities and Palestinians regarding the perimeter around the Temple Mount.”
“The NPA erected a fence that prevents further burial to the east, aiming to prevent the expansion of the cemetery, which would hurt the [Jerusalem Walls National Park],” the statement continued.
“In our opinion, this is another step designed to prevent Muslim presence around the walls of the Temple Mount.”
While Bab al-Rahmeh cemetery is included in the Jerusalem Walls National Park, the Christian and Jewish cemeteries on the Mount of Olives are not.
Therefore, the Muslim cemetery’s inclusion within the park’s borders now “enables the NPA to operate in the cemetery under the National Parks Act, to fence it in, restrict access to it, and to strive to stop burial there,” the NGO alleged.
“All this is being done in the claim of protecting ancient remains,” the Emek Shaveh alleged.
A spokesperson for the NPA could not be reached for comment.
It’s stupid for Jews other than the police to continue to go onto the Temple Mount. Hashem will decide the hour of our return there, and forcing the issue is just dumb.
They owe the pigs an apology.
“One suspect reportedly exclaimed “Mohammad is a pig,”. So he said that? Is he wrong about it? Anyone or any religion who promises “virgins” (sic) as a reward for being faithful to their god need to take their heads out of the slop and think about what heaven is about.
Moohamed was a child molester and sexual predator!
I guess he was also a pig.
They are worse then pigs they are dung
Why shame the pig !
The moslems have been encroaching the area on the east side beyond the temple compound walls ,using it as a cemetery only in the last 50 60 years .When I walked there in 1967 there was just a few graves there ,now there are lots. Just as they have done at kever rochel, surrounding the area with graves where there never was a cemetery there
The israeli police have to remove the palestinian trouble makers that hound jews from the temple mount. once and forall . They keep on trying to get more power day by day
This PC stuff is plainly insane. Buying into it suggests one of several possibilities.
1. A lawyer representing such complainants stands to earn some dough for this.
2. It is somehow considered newsworthy. Must be a journalist.
3. People’s opinions were never the subject of public debate. If I decided I disliked broccoli, I could be taken to court by the growers and farmers for my “immoral” lack of preference.
4. Somehow, discriminating against a Jew or white person will never result in anything at all. One can say the vilest things about Jews with nary a consequence. But even think that Muslims terrorists or terror lovers/sympathizers, here comes jail with a civil suit.
5. Who said Mohammed existed? Maybe the Koran is a fictional work developed to have a text to support the savagery and the blood thirst that characterizes these animals.
Protest the inaction of the israel police for not putting a stop to those people who are disturbing the jewish visitors on har habayis
It is ok to yell, “”DEATH TO THE JEWS”, which may result in deaths, but to call Moe Hammed a pig, which isn’t going to cause any harm to Moe is forbidden by the anti-Semitic Israeli police.
The israeli secular coward government fears incitement of the Arabs if some Jew curses them but does not mind inciting the whole Moslem world with toeiva parades in jerusalem.