Video Debunks Beitar Lynching Charge

Arutz Sheva ^ | 3/4/12 | Gabe Kohn

[Eleutheria5]

Video

Police released on Tuesday a video of a brawl between a group of Jewish soccer fans and Arab workers in the Malha Mall.

The video clearly contradicted reports in Israel's media – and statements by senior security officials – that Jewish fans of the Beitar soccer club attempted to lynch three Arab workers at the mall last week.

Instead, the video shows three Arab cleaners take up sticks and began chasing a crowd of soccer fans after a verbal confrontation.

A spokesman for Israel Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino said, "a few dozen Beitar fans entered the Malha Mall after leaving the Teddy Stadium and started chanting racist slogans at the Arab cleaners."

A "fight broke out between the parties," the spokesman laconically added. "Three Arab workers took sticks and began to chase after dozens Beitar fans – who fled to other floors and exited the mall."

"Mall security guards intervened, seized the Arab workers, and held them back," they added.

Police say nothing in the video, or in the interviews conducted by investigators, indicated anything akin to a "lynching" or "progrom" of the Arabs had taken place.

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[Eleutheria5]

The IMSM of course has kittens every time Arabs form a lynch mob on French Hill or other locations throughout Jerusalem.

[Boogieman]

We are just seeing, with the Trayvon Martin case, American journalists trying to adapt the “Paliwood” tactics for use over here. This time, it looks like they have failed, but they will surely try this move again and again.

[Eleutheria5]

They’ve been doing that in the US since Rodney King was caught speeding, fought like a wild animal against the police officers trying to lawfully subdue him, and for a few seconds went too far and clubbed him while he was already down. Snip those few seconds, ignore the rest of the tape, and—voila!—insanity. Maybe Paliwood learned a few things from that little bit of unpleasantness and its aftermath.

[SJackson]

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