Alcohol and hate during Purim fuel attacks on Palestinians

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"The Israeli press reported two separate disturbing incidents in which a large group of Jewish youths attacked defenseless Palestinians. Both incidents may have been fueled by alcohol and connected to Purim holiday celebrations.

A street cleaner named, Hassan Usraf, told police he was brutally beaten by about 20 young Jewish men while working early Sunday morning in Tel Aviv. The victim suffered multiple facial cuts, skull fractures and an eye injury as a result of the attack. He is in a hospital in serious condition awaiting eye surgery. Usraf’s wife reported that the youths told her husband that the reason for the assault was that, “He was an Arab.” No suspects have been apprehended. Usraf described his assailants as drunk. The police surmised that the youths had been participating in Purim celebrations during the evening.

On Monday afternoon, a Palestinian woman was attacked by a group of young Jewish female religious students at a railroad station in Jerusalem, according to an eyewitness. Dorit Dotan, who photographed the incident, said that the victim was repeatedly pushed and that her head covering was pulled off. According to Dotan, a railroad security guard watched the incident smiling and did nothing to intervene. There were about 100 people at the station who also passively watched, she said. Dotan also said that the attackers had “drunk much wine because of Purim.” The assailants boarded a train, leaving a stunned and angry victim and her elderly Palestinian companion at the station. Further details about what led to the altercation or the identity of those involved are not known. The police have opened an investigation, although no complaint has been reported."

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/02/alcohol-attacks-palestinians.html


‘An Arab is the son of a prostitute, a Jew is a (blessed) soul’ — Jerusalem mob chants

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"From Ofer Neiman, a short video of a mob in Jerusalem last night. I don't know what occasioned this outburst (beyond the fact that such racism is the inevitable expression of fervent nationalism). From the facebook description by Avinoam Oltchik:

Jerusalem, night between 24-25 Feb 2013. Young Israeli youth looking for the next lynch victim while chanting "A jew is a soul, an arab is a son of a whore", scattered by police. 0:08-0:10 : "Did you hear what they did to the Arab guy? they screwed him with beatings"

I'd rather not know what happened before they started running from Zion Square towards this direction nor what would have happen if they hadn't been stopped.

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/02/prostitute-blessed-jerusalem.html


Officer's racial slurs lead to his dismissal

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4350410,00.html

Policeman, posting ethnic slur against Arab woman on Facebook, forced out of service. to Police chief says will 'weed such people out of police force'

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"A police officer who posted racist remarks on his Facebook page regarding the alleged attack of an Arab woman in Jerusalem on Monday, will be discharged and return to the IDF, Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino said on Wednesday at a press conference concluding the 2012 year.

The police on Wednesday began to investigate the incident, which occurred between the young Arab woman and a group of young Jewish women near the Light Rail station in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Moreover, the police had to simultaneously contend with the racist slurs made by a man in uniform named Ariel Shapiro, who wrote the following on his Facebook wall: "Too bad the Arab whore didn't die."