Yesterday WORLDLUV asked me to qualify a passing comment I made about this, so I am now doing so :)
The 1920 Nebi Musa riots took place on April 4th and 7th in the Old City of Jerusalem. By 10.30 am on April 4, almost 70,000 Arabs had congregated in the city square, and Arab gangs had already been attacking Jews in the Old City for over an hour. From the balcony of the Arab club, inflammatory anti-Jewish rhetoric was being delivered, much of it by Hajj Amin al-Husayni. The Arab mob ransacked the Jewish quarter, beating many people, looting shops and homes. The Toras chaim yeshiva was raided and set on fire. During the next 3 hours, 160 Jews were injured and seriously hurt.
Muslim eyewitness Khalil al-Sakakini: 'Stones were being thrown at the Jews, I saw them covered in dust and blood. The crowd was yelling 'Muhammad's religion was born with the sword'.
2007-12-04
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