Jerusalem – Israeli police say vandals have sprayed a dozen Muslim graves in a Jerusalem cemetery with graffiti in a politically motivated act.
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Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the phrase “price tag” was sprayed in Hebrew over the graves early on Thursday.
The term is used by a tiny fringe of extremists to protest Israeli policy they view as favoring Palestinians. Israeli military bases, churches and mosques have also been targeted.
Rosenfeld says police are investigating.
The centuries-old cemetery in central Jerusalem is near the site of a planned museum of tolerance. The project by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a U.S.-based Jewish group, has drawn fire from Palestinians who say it desecrates graves.
The Wiesenthal Center has said the construction is in an area that has been a parking lot for 50 years.
This is a real chillul hashem and will only serve to further inflame sentiments against yidden and result in vandalizing of yiddeshe kevorim in EY and other countries where there already is much of this happening. A muslim kever should be treated as having the same kedushah as a yiddeshe kever and treated accordingly. Hopefully, those who committed this atrocity will be captured and punished severely.
Shameful, is is shameful.
“A muslim kever should be treated as having the same kedushah as a yiddeshe kever and treated accordingly.”
Could you please cite a hallachic source for your statement?
This may of course be a horrible thing, but it is a reflection of the wickedness in our culture that may be portraying itself in a blame game and hate filled avenue of insensitivity to todays problems. This means we are quick to hate the Palestinians who are hateful of us, but we do not constructively attack the problem in our homes. We must not let our children realize that it is acceptable to hate another people. And we must work for a lasting peaceful solution to allay the fear of hegemony of the unsuccessful.