Chapaev
15th October 2008, 20:15
That a previous thread I had started on this topic was deleted shows an absence of good faith and slanderous implications of racism on my part. The correct interpretation of the violence in Acre as a pogrom against Palestinians was formulated by the Left.
http://www.maki.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1135&Itemid=106
The chairman of Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) and a leading member of the Communist Party of Israel, Mohammed Barakeh on Thursday (October, 9) responded to violent clashes between Jews and Arabs in the Israeli northern city of Acre, calling the violence a "pogrom perpetrated by Jews against Arab residents. The police displayed helpless discrimination in its treatment of the assault on Arab residents,"
The riots erupted before dawn Wednesday when an Arab resident of the mixed town drove his car into a Jewish neighborhood during the holy day of Yom Kippur, during which even secular Jews refrain from driving out of respect. Jewish rightist rioters alleged that the man "defiantly played loud music", and proceeded to assault him, sparking large scale clashes between Jews and Arabs in the area.
Barakeh said the incident had less to do with Yom Kippur than a deliberate "escalation of racist speech" ahead of Israeli municipal elections next month.
"We see a great danger in these attacks. They are similar to the pogroms that Jews were exposed to at the hands of the Nazi gangs in Germany," Barakeh told reporters.
When Acre police intervened, Barakeh said, "they fired rubber bullets and tear gas to prevent Arabs defending their homes". The clashes between Arabs and Rightists Jews resumed Thursday evening, after Yom Kippur ended, as hundreds of Jews and Arabs demonstrated and confronted police near the train station in eastern Acre and near the city's northern housing projects.
http://www.maki.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1135&Itemid=106
The chairman of Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) and a leading member of the Communist Party of Israel, Mohammed Barakeh on Thursday (October, 9) responded to violent clashes between Jews and Arabs in the Israeli northern city of Acre, calling the violence a "pogrom perpetrated by Jews against Arab residents. The police displayed helpless discrimination in its treatment of the assault on Arab residents,"
The riots erupted before dawn Wednesday when an Arab resident of the mixed town drove his car into a Jewish neighborhood during the holy day of Yom Kippur, during which even secular Jews refrain from driving out of respect. Jewish rightist rioters alleged that the man "defiantly played loud music", and proceeded to assault him, sparking large scale clashes between Jews and Arabs in the area.
Barakeh said the incident had less to do with Yom Kippur than a deliberate "escalation of racist speech" ahead of Israeli municipal elections next month.
"We see a great danger in these attacks. They are similar to the pogroms that Jews were exposed to at the hands of the Nazi gangs in Germany," Barakeh told reporters.
When Acre police intervened, Barakeh said, "they fired rubber bullets and tear gas to prevent Arabs defending their homes". The clashes between Arabs and Rightists Jews resumed Thursday evening, after Yom Kippur ended, as hundreds of Jews and Arabs demonstrated and confronted police near the train station in eastern Acre and near the city's northern housing projects.