Eight Palestinian supporters have been hospitalized, two with serious injuries, after allegedly being assaulted by pro-Israeli people enraged by the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens on the West Bank.
Above: Right wing protesters in Jerusalem
Mob Of Italian Jews Allegedly Attacks Pro-Palestinians In Rome
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Tensions are reportedly rising in Rome, where two separate violent incidents between pro-Israelis and pro-Palestinians erupted in the past two days, Ha’aretz reported.
Eight Palestinian supporters have been hospitalized, two with serious injuries, after allegedly being assaulted by pro-Israeli people enraged by the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens on the West Bank.
When the news of the Israeli teens’ deaths was reported Monday night, the Jewish community held a memorial prayer service in the old Ghetto. After the service, a number of the participants formed a mob and marched toward the Palestinian Authority office across the Tiber River from the Ghetto.
A group of street vendors shouted pro-Palestinian slogans at the marching Jews. The Jews responded by assaulting them. Seven of the vendors, one of them a woman, were hospitalized.
Some members of the Jewish community reportedly fear the assaults may be the work of self-appointed Ghetto patrols and see the situation inside the Jewish community as deteriorating.
“The merciful understatement of the newspapers – ‘pro-Israel youths beat…’ – [actually] alludes to a trend of squads that need to be stopped immediately,” Gad Lerner, a popular Italian-Israeli TV anchor often critical of pro-Israel hardliners, tweeted after Italian media chose not to identify the Jewish assailants as Jews.
Inside the Jewish community, right wing pro-Israel activists previous assaulted a woman at a book event in the city and tried to block the leftist author from speaking.
In January, four pro-Palestinian activists were allegedly beaten by what they described as a gang of “about fifteen young men carrying baseball bats.” The incident took place inside the Ghetto. The pro-Palestinian youths were walking home after a night out, saw a poster commemorating Ariel Sharon, who had just passed away, and ripped it off the wall.
Within minutes, a group of armed men arrived and beat them up.
Jewish communal leaders deny the presence of right wing gangs inside the ghetto.
[Hat Tip: Sheesh.]