[Nothing new about this. What have Muslims not borrowed from Christianity or the Nazis?]
As part of the Palestinian Authority’s relentless demonizing of Israel and Jews, it often invokes Nazi era terminology to try to conjure a parallel between the actions of the Nazi’s and the actions of Israel or Jews.
Rewriting the story of the wide scale riots of Israeli Arabs that started on May 10 in the Israeli city of Lod, regular columnist Bassem Bahoum commented:
“Before the eyes of the world Israel has repeated Kristallnacht, the night on which members of the Nazi party in Germany burned and destroyed the Jews’ stores and property, and this was when it let fascist extremist groups destroy the property of Palestinians in Lod, Jaffa, Haifa, and Acre.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 17, 2021]
Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by Nazi forces and civilians throughout Germany on the night of November 9-10, 1938. Jewish homes, hospitals and schools were ransacked and demolished. In the curse of the riots, 267 synagogues were destroyed and over 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed.
The PA comparison between
Kristallnacht and the alleged actions of Israel and Jews, implies that hundreds of mosques or shops belonging to Israeli Arabs were destroyed, ransacked and burned to the ground.
The real statistics, from the start of the Israeli Arab riots on May 10 through May 16, show the opposite. While there were some acts of violence carried out by Israeli-Jews, all of which was condemned by the Israeli government and police, the reality was wide scale violence carried out by Arab Israelis, focused on attacking their Jewish neighbors and their property. Here are some of the statistics:
10 Synagogues were wholly or partly burnt. 0 mosques that were burnt;
While Arab rioters used 28 mosques to stockpile rocks and Molotov cocktails, no such similar use was made of Synagogues.
While the Arab rioters used 22 mosques to direct the violenceand the rioters, no such similar use was made of Synagogues.
Arab rioters set fire to 112 Jewish homes compared to 1 Arab home that was set ablaze by an Israeli Arab who mistook the target for a Jewish house.
386 Jewish homes were plundered. No Arab homes were plundered.
673 Jewish homes were damaged, compare to 13 Arab homes that were damaged.
849 cars belonging to Jews were set ablaze compared to 13 Arab owned cars.
In 5,018 events Jews were attacked by Arab riotersthrowing stones compared to 41events in which Arabs were attacked with stones.
[Walla, Independent Israeli news site, May 16,2021]
(full article online)
Israeli “detention camps have become most similar to the Nazi crematoriums”
palwatch.org
