The double standard on religious buildings

Posted on 06/08/2011 by Meryl Yourish

The State Department and the UN are both condemning the arson attack on a mosque in the West Bank. So’s the White House.

I can’t find anything about a condemnation of the shooting of Jewish worshippers at Joseph’s Tomb by Palestinian “police.”

That’s because there was none.

Once again, a perfect example of Israeli Double Standard Time. Jewish worshippers murdered by Palestinian policemen? Not a peep. A few mosque rugs burned?

Violence.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement, “The United States condemns the burning and vandalizing of a mosque,” noting that the attack, was “the latest of several such acts of violence against West Bank mosques.”

Toner added that such incidents serve “to undermine efforts to promote a comprehensive peace in the region,” and called on Israel to investigate the attack and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Threatening.

“The actions of Israeli extremists are highly provocative and threatening,” Robert Serry, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said in a statement.

“Consistent with its obligations under international law as the occupying power, the Israeli government must ensure accountability of those responsible and protect the human rights of Palestinians and their property, including religious sites.”

Dead Jews? Who cares? Burnt mosque? Everybody pile on Israel.

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2 Responses to The double standard on religious buildings

  1. Cynic says:
    06/08/2011 at 1:03 pm

    Meryl,

    Just thought you’d like to read this crit of the NYT’s reporting
    How a New York Times article …. by being full of False Information

    Barry Rubin must be really annoyed

    Actually, this is a pretty good article by the usual standards because it is so determined to be “even-handed.” On the one hand, there is Israel, a democratic state with a free media (that often criticizes the government) and that has video tape of the incident in question.

    On the other hand, there is Syria, a dictatorship that censors all the news, controls all of the media, and is currently involved in murdering hundreds of its citizens.
    ….
    How is a poor newspaper supposed to determine their relative credibility?

  2. Michael Lonie says:
    06/08/2011 at 9:49 pm

    Damage was limited to a few rugs inside the mosque, and a few words of graffitti (presumably in Hebrew, but I did not see that the article specified that). Here in the states we often hear about racial “hate crimes” that tunrn out to be fakes, with the complainant being the perp. It couldn’t possibly be that the Palis did this themselves, now could it? Oh no, who could possibly think that? For a destroyed settlement a couple of rugs hardly seems an expensive “price tag.”

    If Israelis were the perps, by all means prosecute them., but this matter smells fishy to me.

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