A hassidic child cries, clinging to his father’s hand as an angry mob hounds them, hurling anti-Semitic abuse.
Scenes not from Europe in the early twentieth century, but from the streets of Jerusalem’s Old City on Sukkot, 2015.
Muslims in the holy city have been rioting for more than two weeks now, clashing with police and attacking Jewish residents.
Several people have been injured and one man – 64-year-old grandfather Alexander Levlovich – was murdered by Muslim terrorists who hurled rocks at his car, causing a fatal crash.
Arab Muslim rioters claim their actions are in order to “protect” the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount from Jewish “invasions”; Jews note such “invasions” are merely peaceful visits to the Temple Mount (not even the mosque itself), which is Judaism’s holiest site, and that the violence is meant to prevent them from visiting the Mount and even to drive from the Old City altogether.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhJO-0vdZDI
The above video was taken Monday morning, on the first day of the Jewish festival Sukkot, and shows mobs of Muslims harassing Jews on their way to pray at the Kotel (Western Wall).
The footage shows one terrified young boy crying to his dad “abba abba!” as the mob converges on them.
No one was injured in the incident – as Islamist activists are usually careful to avoid open violence in front of cameras or nearby police – but it underlines the campaign of unbearable harassment faced by Jewish Jerusalemites at the hands of their Arab neighbors, entirely unrelated to the issue of the Temple Mount.
