In Hate Crime, Arab Schoolgirls Called "Monkeys," Assaulted On Jerusalem Bus

At least three passengers on a Egged public bus in Jerusalem harassed and assaulted a group of ten Arab sixth grade girls from a Jewish-Arab school. One of the passengers called the girls “monkeys,” said the girls should be ashamed of [pretending to be] human, told them they have no right to live, and threatened to send people to kill them. She also hit one of the girls and pulled her hair.

In Hate Crime, Arab Schoolgirls Assaulted On Jerusalem Bus
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

At least three passengers on a Egged public bus in Jerusalem harassed and assaulted a group of ten Arab sixth grade girls from a Jewish-Arab school, Ha’aretz reports.

The girls were on their way home from the Max Rayne Bilingual School Sunday when two passengers hurled racial slurs at the students and one of them spat out his chewing gum at them.

When those two passengers disembarked, a third passenger, a woman, called the girls “monkeys,” said the girls should be ashamed of [pretending to be] human, told them they have no right to live, and threatened to send people to kill them. She also hit one of the girls and pulled her hair, according to an account by the girl's father, who said that his daughter has grown accustomed to being verbally abused when passing through Jewish neighborhoods. But, her father said, this was the first time she was physically assaulted.

Only one passenger on the bus came to the children’s defense and asked the woman to stop harassing them, he said.

The bus driver allegedly refused to help the girls, and he stopped the bus to intervene only after the woman started hitting one of the girls and pulling her hair.

The driver asked the woman to get off the bus but she refused. At that point, the driver reportedly called police, who detained the woman for questioning when they arrived.

Police confirmed the general allegations Thursday and said they have already questioned the woman who is accused of hitting the girl. However, police are waiting for a formal complaint to be filed before going further.

Parents of the ten girls are planning to file a police complaint, according to a member of the parents committee at the school.

The bus was headed for the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev.

Comments

[Sarek]

This is how we become a light unto nations?

[three_oaths]

Damn those bigoted Jewish thugs! Didn't anyone teach them the Golden Rule or any sort of basic human decency when they were growing up? How would they like it if Arab passengers did the same thing to them? Harassment and assault against anyone ruins the reputation of world Jewry and is a chillul Hashem.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

how much better than the arabs are we?

[S M L]

Keep in mind that what Arabs or others are thinking of when they spew hatred of Jews is people like these fools who are completely unlike the majority of us who manage to live in proximity to and to ride on public transit with people of all ethnicities without behaving in a repulsive fashion.

[Rahil L]

how much better than the arabs are we?

Posted by: Yosef ben Matitya | January 25, 2013 at 11:38 AM

Well, we don't rain missiles down on civilian populace. Unless you have forgotten all the atrocities the Arabs have perpetrated on the population of Israel.

[Haredi to Rumble]

Never fails to amaze me, the abused becomes the abuser, the persecuted becomes the oppressor.

These religious assholes are opening the door to the next great holocaust. If I find them repulsive, hypocritical, dishonest, racist and immoral, what do you think the nonJewish world believes?

If you find the most repulsive Julius Streicher stereotype, it's almost as if the Haredi are using it as a template. Very sick.

[Horsey]

She should be forced to apologize and buy each girl a banana.

[Shmarya]

Posted by: Haredi to Rumble | January 25, 2013 at 12:38 PM

What makes you think the criminals are haredim or even Orthodox?

There's no indication of that in my post.

[Ben]

Are the people who harrassed the Arab girls Jewish of Arab? Before you dismiss this question as stupid, consider that fact that Arabs who prefer coexistence are often harrassed and even killed by Arabs who prefer jihad.

These girls are going to Jewish-Arab school so the attack could come from ether Arab of Jewsish extremists.

[chesky frankel]

to the riches go the spoils! have jew go on av arab see how far you will go.get real sadly the world is not made up of failed messiah followes

[mikey]

have jew go on av arab see how far you will go
Posted by: chesky frankel | January 25, 2013 at 02:13 PM

I often see this kind of response when Jews do despicable things to Arabs. It's a despicable shit-for-brains racist kind of response.

[Russian PhD]

Dejudeonazification of Israeli society-NOW!

Before it will be ordered by international forces like in Germany in 1945.

[Lawrence Kulak]

This is a prime example I believe of how the media can manipulate a story by giving too little information. Does anybody really think that any normal Jews would harass sixth grade Arab girls riding a bus minding their own business? These girls were probably either saying bad things about Jews in Arabic or giving dirty looks to the people. I highly doubt that they were "just riding the bus".

[Jeff]

Does anybody really think that any normal Jews would harass sixth grade Arab girls riding a bus minding their own business?

Would anyone think they would harass Modern Orthodox girls of the same age by chasing them down the street screaming, "Curveh!"?