WAFA Monitors Incitement and Racism in Israeli Media

RAMALLAH, January 10, 2012 (WAFA) - Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA) monitored incitement and racism against the Palestinians and Arabs published by the Israeli media between December 23 and 30.

Israel today newspaper published news piece under the title “Anger Erupts after Closing Legal Investigation with Zoubi”, in which Knesset Member, Anastasia Michaeli considered the attorney’s decision to close legal investigation with Arab Knesset Member, Hanin Zoubi, as “supportive of terrorism in Israel and the whole world.”

Other Israeli Knesset Members said that Israel’s legal system proved its weakness when it submitted to terrorism supporters, and abandoned Israeli soldiers and officers, stating that the closure of investigation is a scandalous decision against Israel.

Israel today also published an instigating article by Reuben Barcoin, in which he discussed the rising Islamist movements in the Arab world and their pursuit to revive Saladin’s “myth.”

Barcoin said, “Those in Israel, who urge to compromise with the Palestinians under these circumstances, are subjecting themselves to mockery from both Palestinians and Islamist extremists.”

He said that Muslims are drowning the world with terrorism and murder and questioned whether there is anyone who could stop that “Islamic witchcraft!”

“Little Israel is surrounded; Israel’s enemies look for drowning it with Arab refugees, Sudanese immigrants, as well as the Palestinian terrorists, who target residents of southern Israel,” he added.

Chen Ben-Eliyahu wrote a racist article published on NFC website, in which he said that the Palestinian reconciliation aims to destroy the state of Israel and to establish a “terrorist Arab ‘Palestinian’ state” instead.

He said, “This agreement between Hamas and Fatah headed by the two terrorists, Abbas and Mashal reveals that despite of the tactic differences between them, their unified goal is to destroy Israel.

Ben-Eliyahu said that the Israeli response to the Palestinian reconciliation must be “a Jewish state for the Jewish people on all of Israel’s land.”

NRG website published an article written by the Israeli journalist, Lilach Sigan, in which she claimed that the Israeli society has forgotten the meaning of democracy and true values their nation counts on.

“Democracy that doesn’t respect everyone’s rights is not one,” she said “not only ‘religious’ people overstep the law; many seem to violate the law without being punished, such as the Arab Knesset Member, Saed Nafi’, who met freely with the terrorism leaders in Syria and in the Gaza Strip, and Zoubi, who joined the aggressive flotilla against the state of Israel.”
WAFA Monitors Incitement and Racism in Israeli Media