Palestinian woman subject of another Jewish hate crime in Jerusalem

Palestinian woman subject of another Jewish hate crime in Jerusalem Palestine Monitor uruknet.info

February 27, 2013 On Monday, February 25 a Palestinian woman was attacked by a mob of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in broad daylight at the light rail station in Jerusalem. The Palestinian woman was punched by one passing Jewish woman in an unprovoked attack, before the Jewish woman's friends joined in, managing to tear off the Palestinian's headscarf off as they rained blows on her body. The Israeli daily newspaper Maariv reported that the light rail security guard, in addition to around 100 religious Jewish men, stood by at the Kiryat Moshe rail station watching the beating and doing nothing. Dorit Yardan Dotan, an eyewitness who captured the assult with her camera phone, told Maariv that she was horrified by the violence and that the security guard was even smiling. There were more than 100 Orthodox Jews including Yeshiva students who watched an Arab woman being beaten," Dotan said. "She was escorted by an elderly man before a heated argument erupted and people shouted. I couldn't understand the motive behind that, and all of a sudden they all attacked the Arab woman beating her severely." Hate crimes are not uncommon for Palestinians living in Jerusalem or in the '48 territories. Ynet reported that on February 24, a Palestinian man in his 40's who works for the Tel Aviv Municipality as a street cleaner was assaulted by 20 Jewish youth, who targeted his head. As a result, Hassan Usruf had to undergo surgery on his jaw while suffering injuries made to his eye socket, but no arrests were made and his attackers remain unpunished. In August 2012, dozens of Jewish teenagers beat up three Palestinian youth in Zion Square, West Jerusalem. The mob relentlessly kicked and punched the Palestinians, and shouted racist slurs and chants such as "Death to Arabs!" over and over again as more than 100 bystanders stood by watching the lynching without interfering. One of the Palestinian youth, 17 year old Jamal Julani, was beaten unconsciousness and had to be resuscitated on site after the mob ran away. Julani had to be hospitalized, and has no recollection of the incident. In the aftermath of the lynching, Israeli police arrested several Jewish teenagers, the youngest being 13 year old. One of the suspects, a 15 year old, defiantly told the court, "For my part he [Julani] can die. He's an Arab." Nimrod Aloni, the head of one of Tel Aviv's colleges for the Institute for Educational Thought said of the mob attack, "This is directly tied to national fundamentalism that is the same as the rhetoric of neo-Nazis, Taliban, and K.K.K. This comes from an entire culture that has been escalating toward an open and blunt language based on us being the chosen people who are allowed to do whatever we like." Source