The Palestinian Authority is on a mission to destroy Israel by whatever means possible, including the use of propaganda.
Many people do not even realize that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed under mysterious circumstances (the Palestinians blame Israel, but won’t surrender the bullet for investigation) and even had her funeral desecrated by Palestinians, was actually a Christian. She was known as a “trailblazer in Arab media.”
Since Shireen Abu Akleh was a journalist, and working for Al Jazeera to boot, the Palestinians decided to seize the opportunity to hide Akleh’s Christianity, smear Israel, and cause further grief for Akleh’s family at her funeral.
What Palestinian Media Watch turned up is horrifying, but yet very much part of the Palestinian modus operandi. Appalling, but the world will continue to turn a blind eye.
Meanwhile, Christians are routinely persecuted in the Palestinian territories:
The ongoing international neglect of the plight of the Christians under PA rule could lead to the disappearance of Christianity in the place where it emerged.
“Palestinian mob tried to hijack Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral so it would not be ‘as if a Christian died,’” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, May 31, 2022:
1- The motivation of the Palestinians who took her coffin to carry it on their shoulders and by foot was to avoid a funeral “as if a Christian woman died.”
2- Abu Akleh’s family had wanted her body taken by hearse to the church for the funeral, and not carried through the streets of Jerusalem.
3- When the hearse arrived to take the coffin to the church, the Palestinian mob that had gathered at the hospital prevented the car from reaching the entrance and receiving Abu Akleh’s body. Instead, it was the Palestinian mob that snatched the coffin and thereby disrupted the funeral. Israeli Police prevented further disruption….
PMW has examined the broadcasts on official PA TV and Al-Jazeera prior to and during the funeral of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, which confirms the Israeli version of the events that led to the violence. The videos of Israeli Police hitting some of those who carried the coffin on their shoulders were disseminated around the world to make it seem as if Israeli Police were interfering with the funeral. In fact, it was the exact opposite. It was a Palestinian mob that had hijacked the funeral and Israeli Police who were forced to intervene and have the funeral return to be held as the family planned.
The following are the details:
The morning of the funeral, Shireen Abu Akleh’s brother, Anton Abu Akleh, told Al-Jazeera that the family, who are Christians, wanted the coffin to be taken by hearse at 2:00 p.m. from the hospital to the church (and not carried on shoulders.)Brother of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Anton Abu Akleh:
“At 2:00 p.m., Allah willing, the body will set out from the French Hospital on Highway 1 (i.e., by hearse) to the Jaffa Gate, to the Greek Catholic Church next to the Jaffa Gate. There the burial prayer will be held for her soul. Afterwards we will set out from the church by foot to the [Mount] Zion Cemetery of the Greek Catholic Church.”[YouTube channel of Al-Jazeera, May 13, 2022
The brother was asked about those who wish to carry the coffin on their shoulders:
“The young people of Jerusalem want to hold a special funeral for Shireen that will go [by foot] through the Old City. What do you think of this as a family?”
Anton Abu Akleh rejected the idea in the interest of keeping order:
“The situation, as you see, is that the Israeli restrictions are very strict. We appreciate the love of the Palestinian public and the Palestinian people. As for Shireen, we have held a number of funerals for her. The Palestinians held [a funeral] for her from Jenin to Nablus, to Ramallah, and now in Jerusalem we don’t want there to be [confrontations]. In other words, the Israelis are lying in wait for us, and Allah willing the funeral will go well.”
However, when the church’s hearse approached the hospital to take the coffin, the Palestinian mob at the hospital stopped the hearse, and prevented it from approaching.
somehistory says
The Israelis try to help and the idiot brother wants to say how much he appreciates the so-called palestinians …Too bad so many people are fools for this fake ‘god’ and false ‘prophet’…even when they claim to be Christians.
proudlyislamophobic says
Is the brother Christian? If he is, why does he keep saying “Allah willing”?
gravenimage says
Some Arabic-speaking Christians do use the word “Allah” for God–but this family is particularly pro-Jihad terror. Sadly some Christian dhimmis have completely swallowed their oppressors’ narrative. Certainly not all–thank goodness–but certainly some.
gravenimage says
Palestinians tried to hijack Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral so it would not be ‘as if a Christian died’
…………….
Her hating Israel and flogging the vicious “Palestinian” narrative was not enough for these Muslim supremacists.