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MK Mohammed Barakeh: "The violent clashes in the Israeli city of Acre is a pogrom perpetrated by Rightists Jews against Arab residents." |
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lunedì 13 ottobre 2008 |
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MK Mohammed
Barakeh: "The violent clashes in the Israeli city of Acre is a pogrom
perpetrated by Rightists Jews against Arab residents."
MK 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.
The chairman of Hadash (Democratic Front
for Peace and Equality) and a leading member of the Communist Party of Israel,
MK Mohammed 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.
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