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Jewish Rights Activist Yehuda Glick Receives Human Rights Award
Thursday, December 11th, 2014Rabbi Yehuda Glick, the Jewish rights activist who was shot multiple times at point blank range just a few weeks ago, received a human rights award on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Glick received the award from the Israeli Zionist organization Im Tirtzu at the Second Zionist Conference.
Glick was shot on Oct. 29 by Islamic Jihad member Motaz Hejazi after leaving a meeting at which the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount was discussed. Glick was shot right outside of the Menachem Begin Center in Jerusalem, where the meeting had taken place.
Hejazi walked up to Glick, asked him to identify himself, shot Glick repeatedly, then took off on a motorbike. Hejazi was employed at the restaurant in the Begin Center, despite having been imprisoned in Israel for 11 years for terrorism offenses.
Hejazi was later killed in a shootout with police at his home in Abu Tor, a mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Glick’s recovery is considered by many to be a miracle, and his attendance at a public function a mere six weeks after such a brush with death even more so.
Court Rejects Yehuda Glick’s Appeal to Visit Temple Mount
Thursday, December 4th, 2014The Jerusalem District Court of Chelem rejected on Thursday an appeal from Rabbi Yehuda Glick to overturn a police order that bars him from returning to the Temple Mount until the judicial system decides on a case in which he is charged with pushing a Muslim woman.
Glick’s lawyers said they will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
He is recovering from the attempt to assassinate him several weeks ago, when he was critically wounded with four gunshots at point-blank range shot by a Jerusalem Arab after Glick finished lecturing about the Temple Mount at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem.
He was looking forward to returning to the Temple Mount, where he was able to visit earlier this year only after numerous appeals to the court to overturn a police ban on his appearance.
Glick, who is recognized even by Israel’s leftist media as mild-mannered, denies the charge filed against him that he pushed a Muslim woman.
The accusation was a very convenient excuse for the police to order that Glick stay away from the holy site. The Jerusalem court on Thursday accepted the government’s position that his appearance there would be a risk to public security.
That followed the so-called thinking of National Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino and Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch, both of whom have stated that public figures such as Knesset Members also should not be allowed on the Temple Mount because it upsets the Muslims.
Rabbi Yehuda Glick Pleads to Return to Temple Mount
Sunday, November 30th, 2014On Sunday the Jerusalem District Court held a hearing into the question of whether to continue a restraining order issued by the court against Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick.
The matter was raised by Glick in response to the restraining order, which Glick contended prevented him from earning a living.
The restraining order had been issued after a complaint was filed by an Arab woman who claimed that Glick had pushed her on the Temple Mount.
Because Glick was unable to physically appear in court due to ill health — this, following an assassination attempt last month by an Arab terrorist who pumped four bullets into his chest at point-blank range — Glick instead sent a detailed letter to the Court in which he listed his claims.
Here are some key points of the letter, before you read the whole thing:
With regard to the case in question, the plaintiff wishes to accuse me of assault. She first claimed that the event occurred on 2 September 2014, but after I proved that I was not at the Temple Mount that afternoon, the respondent changed the story and stated the event occurred on 31 August 2014.
As a religious Jew coming to the Temple Mount, I am always accompanied by police, who stand right beside me. It should be noted that two police officers and one commanding officer that were from the area warned the plaintiff that they did not see the events for which she filed the complaint.
It is inconceivable that I would push a woman, let alone knock her to the ground, without all of the police officers in the area having seen such an event.
All of my tours on the Temple Mount are conducted with participants and Arab elements in place, and watched by police through fixed and mobile video security cameras. I was fully apparent and visible at the scene from four different angles. Anyone can see that I am the victim here — yet instead of reacting in self-defense, I turn and ask police in the area to distance the rioters.
The courts are expected to decide either this Thursday, or Tuesday next week whether or not to extend or cancel the restraining order.
Here is Yehuda Glick’s letter (translated):
“I really wanted to participate in the discussion of my appeal against the decision to bar me from the Temple Mount,” wrote Glick. “But as is well known, an attempt was made on my life on October 29, 2014 by a Muslim extremist (from this alone one easily learns who is the attacker, and who is the attacked, with regard to those who choose to go up to the Temple Mount.)
“After ten days in which I was sedated and on a respirator, and an additional week in which I remained in intensive care, plus an another week in the Department of Surgery, just a few days ago I was released for the purpose of extensive rehabilitative services. Despite that, I requested permission to participate in these court proceedings; however, this past Shabbat I became severely weakened and thus cannot appear physically in the court room.
Therefore, I respectfully request the court herewith accept this letter in lieu of my appearance and verbal testimony:
For 25 years, since 1989, I have guided groups in to the Temple Mount. To this day, I teach hundreds of groups, including thousands of participants, including Jews and non-Jews, secular and observant alike.
In recent years, this activity has become the means for my livelihood, and I guide groups sometimes three to four times a day.
With regard to the case in question, the plaintiff wishes to accuse me of assault. She first claimed that the event occurred on 2 September 2014, but after I proved that I was not at the Temple Mount that afternoon, the respondent changed the story and stated the event occurred on 31 August 2014.
It should be noted that the plaintiff does not claim, God forbid, that I attack on a regular basis, but rather claims it to be a single event.
It should be noted that since the so-called “incident” I have gone up to the Temple Mount eight times, and at no point has any such event occurred. (all during September 2014) Thus it is clearly proven there is no danger to the public at the Temple Mount vis a vis any event relating to my self.
As a religious Jew coming to the Temple Mount, I am always accompanied by police, who stand right beside me. It should be noted that two police officers and one commanding officer that were from the area warned the plaintiff that they did not see the events for which she filed the complaint.
Jerusalem Arabs Planned to Attack Feiglin and Glick on Temple Mount
Saturday, November 29th, 2014Partially released for publication (Additional information related to the planned attack is expected to be released in the coming days):
Three eastern Jerusalem Arabs were indicted Friday for plotting to attack Knesset Member Moshe Feiglin and Rabbi Yehuda Glick on the Temple Mount last month, the day before another Jerusalem Arab tried to kill Glick.
The indictment was filed in Jerusalem on Friday against three Arabs, one of them, age 18 and the others 20 and 21 years old. They planned to stay overnight at the holy site and attack with fireworks and rocks when Glick and Feiglin were planning to visit the next morning, October 30. The day before, Glick was nearly fatally shot after he spoke at the Begin Center in Jerusalem.
The terrorists’ plan was that during an ensuing riot, they would flee to the Al Aqsa mosque and then walk away, untouched among a throng of Muslims.
Police had kept the arrests of the three Arabs under cover until Friday, which helps explain why National Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino and Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch have been so adamant that Knesset Members not visit the Temple Mount.
The MK’s presence only riles up Arab terrorists and makes trouble for the police. If you can eliminate the cause for attempted murder, then there won’t be murders.
The only problem with this scenario, as most of our readers know, is that telling Arab crazies that Knesset Members cannot visit the Temple Mount has the opposite effect and gives them the incentive to plan attacks on any Jew who dares arrive at the site.
The reason for violence is not Knesset Members who visit the Temple Mount.
The reason for violence is that the security and court system allows them to be violent.
Yehuda Glick’s Surgery Successful
Sunday, November 23rd, 2014On Sunday morning, instead of being released from the Shaarei Tzedek hospital as planned, Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who was shot 4 times at close range by an Arab assassin, underwent an additional operation.
The doctors completed their surgery and accomplished what they set out to repair.
There is no update yet as to when he’ll be released.
Ex-Senior Justice Official Asks Homeland Security to Ban Abbas from US
Sunday, November 23rd, 2014A former Department of Justice director who was behind the decision to bar Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States in 1987 has asked Homeland to Security to keep Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas out of the country under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which bars entry into the U.S. of aliens who incite terrorist activity or endorse or espouse terrorist activity.
New York Attorney Neal M. Sher, former Director of the Office of Special Investigations in the Justice Department, wrote Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last week to bar Abbas on behalf of 140 victims and family members of the terror attack on Fort Hood, Texas five years ago this month.
“My clients know painfully well the deadly consequences of such incitements and endorsements” as those who radicalized the Fort Hood murderer, Nidal Hasan, Sher wrote.
The attorney reminded Homeland Security that as a Justice Dept. official, he “was responsible for the 1987 decision to bar entry to the U.S. of Kurt Waldheim, then the President of Austria,” based on Waldheim’s assistance or participation in Nazi persecutions.
Sher detailed the “abundance of publicly available evidence” showing that “Abbas (1) personally incited terrorist activity and (2) used his position of prominence to endorse terror activity.”
The Zionist Organization of American (ZOA) issued a statement endorsing and supporting Sher’s letter.
Congress has determined that some individuals should not be allowed entry into the United States for reasons that can be found in section 212, codified as Title 8 of the U.S. Code, section 1182, which states:
Terrorism-related inadmissibility grounds (TRIG), exclude persons who have participated in various kinds of activity, including activity that is generally illegal and/or violent. The grounds for inadmissibility include, but are not limited to, individuals who:
•Incited terrorist activity with intent to cause serious bodily harm or death;
•Are representatives or current members of a terrorist organization;
•Endorsed or espoused terrorist activity;
Sher detailed evidence that “ranking officials of the PA and Fatah, over whom Abbas has control and for whom he must be held responsible, have engaged in a widespread, deliberate campaign to incite and endorse terrorism.”
He noted:
Abbas publicly glorified the perpetrator of the attempted assassination of Yehuda Glick – an American – declaring the perpetrator a ‘martyr’ and in doing so endorsed a clear act of terror….
Abbas publicly urged ‘that Palestinian Arabs’ prevent Jews from entering the Temple Mount ‘by all means necessary,’ an unambiguous call for violence….
A close adviser to Abbas proclaimed on the PA’s official Facebook page that the convicted terrorist who, in October, rammed his car into a light-rail station in Jerusalem, killing a three-month old American infant and wounding several other U.S. citizens and Israelis, “was a ‘martyr’ and worthy of honor….
After additional incidents where vehicles were used as weapons of terror, official PA outlets incited Palestinians to show their anger by ‘running over Israelis.’
Similarly, in a clear-cut example of incitement to and endorsement of terrorism, the PA Facebook page posted ugly depictions of the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped and murdered in June of this year. One of the victims was an American. The kidnappers and murdered were praised, honored and glorified, leaving no doubt that their conduct should be emulated.
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) issued a statement endorsing and supporting Sher’s letter.
ZOA president Morton A. Klein stated, “It is time for our country to send the clear message to Mahmoud Abbas that, under U.S. law, he is not eligible to enter the U.S. when he, his partners and subordinates regularly incite a terror campaign against Jews in Israel.
Klein pointed out several examples, several of which have been noted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in criticism of Abbas:
Abbas’ PA regularly holds parades and ceremonies glorifying deceased terrorists, and names streets, schools and sports teams in their honor.
Large posters of these terrorists are on display in PA schools, universities and public places, honoring these murderers instead of condemning them.
The PA pays pensions to suicide bombers and Jew-killing terrorists. The greater the number of Jews murdered, the higher the pension.
And rather than distance itself as much as possible from Hamas, Abbas’ PA embraced this U.S.-designated terrorist group, whose charter calls for the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel.
Kerry last week said the barbaric murders of four Jews praying in a Jerusalem synagogue was ‘an act of pure terror,’ and Klein noted he condemned it as ‘a pure result of incitement, of calls for days of rage.
“The ongoing incitement by Abbas and others surely led to the savage, horrific murders,” Klein said. “Mahmoud Abbas is not a leader who is trying to calm tensions and encourage peace with the Jewish State of Israel. He is leading a campaign of incitement and terrorism against Jews. The U.S. should make it clear that based on his irresponsible and unacceptable conduct, which is ongoing and well-documented, he is ineligible under U.S. law to enter our country.”
