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The official Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa, which reflects the official Palestinian Authority positions,
reported about Jews worshipping at the Kotel, the Western Wall on Saturday.
Not on the Temple Mount - but the Western Wall that Jews visit and pray at every single day.
The article says:
Hundreds of settlers performed today, Saturday, racist Talmudic rituals, at Al-Buraq Wall (the western wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque) .
Our correspondent reported that hundreds of settlers stormed the western area of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed Talmudic rituals, on the sixth day of the Hebrew "Sukkot", under the strict protection of the Israeli occupation forces, which launched a reconnaissance plane in the sky of the city .
There is no difference between the Shabbat prayers yesterday at the Kotel from the prayers at every traditional synagogue on Earth.
The
official position of the Palestinian Authority is that every Jew who visits the Kotel is a "
settler."
The
official position of the Palestinian Authority is that every Jew who visits the Kotel is has no right to be there and is "storming" a Muslim site.
The
official position of the Palestinian Authority is that the term "Talmudic," which is the source for virtually every detailed Jewish law from kosher to Chanukah, is an epithet.
The
official position of the Palestinian Authority is that everyday Jewish prayer said daily, worldwide, is considered "
racist Talmudic rituals."
Wafa has
previously used the phrase "racist Talmudic rituals" to describe Jewish prayer, but
up until now it was always in the context of Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. This is the first time, as far as I can tell, that they are mimicking the same antisemitic language attacking Jewish worship on the Temple Mount to apply to the Kotel as well.
By extending its bigoted language to apply to mainstream Jewish worship at the Western Wall, the PA is saying that
all Jewish worship is racist and therefore immoral.
This is officially sanctioned antisemitism, and officially sanctioned antisemitic incitement, by the Palestinian Authority.
It is undeniable - and indefensible.
Which means that it will be almost certainly be roundly ignored.
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