What was that you were saying about the “oppression” of the “Palestinians”? In any case, Sheikh Assem Amira almost certainly considers this pension his due, in lieu of the jizya that the Qur’an mandates non-Muslims pay to Muslims (9:29).
“Exposed: Radical Islamist leader who calls for killing of non-Muslims collects pension from Israel,” World Israel News, January 1, 2020:
Sheikh Assem Amira, a leader of the extreme Tahrir movement who espouses ideas similar to those of Islamic State (ISIS) and calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, receives a state pension from the Ministry of Interior, TPS has learned.
Until recently, Amira, a resident of the village of Tsur Baher near Jerusalem, received a salary from the state for his role as a religious leader and served as an adviser to the Ministry of Interior on religious affairs.
Amira is considered an extreme figure, even among extreme Islamists in Jerusalem. He is described as “the head of Tahrir in Palestine” and has black ISIS-styled flags hanging in his office.
Amira has called for the establishment of a caliphate, a Muslim state ruled according to Sharia law, which would “deliver the call for Islam to the whole world,” and has said that the enemies of Islam are America and Europe.
The establishment of an Islamic state “requires destroying all the [foreign] entities in the Islamic world. Make no exception. Show no mercy or compassion to any of those entities,” he stated during a sermon at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in July 2015.
Muslim clerics in Jerusalem, including senior members of the Waqf, told TPS that “this is a dangerous person who has been working for years, by violent means, to obtain the right to preach on the Temple Mount on Fridays and during mass prayers and exploit the events for incitement.”
Due to the Waqf’s pushback, Amira has resorted to holding religious online conferences broadcast from mosques in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Hebron, and Tulkarm. In his sermons, he highlights the violent clashes between the Jerusalem Police and Muslim worshipers, and he recently called for “the liberation of Palestine and the mosques by establishing a caliphate.”
“He is an extreme figure,” R.D., a resident of Tsur Baher, told TPS. “Amira calls for abandoning the idea whereby a Muslim must show courtesy and tolerance to non-Muslims, and is demanding to collect the Jizyah tax from the Jews and Christians as was customary in the ISIS-controlled areas until recently.”
Amira has called for the killing of “anyone who is not Muslim and also a Muslim who does not adopt such an approach,” and those who are not Muslim “do not deserve a comfortable life and we must kill them.”…
Responding to an inquiry on the issue by TPS, the Interior Ministry stated that Amira used to be a ministry employee, and today, “after completing his service as a civil servant, is entitled to a pension under the rules, and therefore, and as he is a private person, we see no room for further comment.”