AFP Essentially Calls for Murder of Jews

This highly dubious charge will likely lead to the murder of Jews. Reports of Israeli casualties due to cinder-block-hurling mobs have already been accruing.

Settlers Scrawl Mohammed Insults on West Bank Mosque

The Charge is Like Pouring Gasoline on a Flame

At least 11 have been killed so far in protests over some moderate caricatures which can be seen as insulting Mohammed.

This charge is more inciteful, because it is an explicit insult of Mohammed.

Many calls have been raised for death to whomever insults Mohammed.

Mainstream Islamists routinely call for death to Jews, particularly to settlers.

33% of British Muslims surveyed admit they believe British Jews are a legitimate target for murder.

50% of British Muslims surveyed admit they would personally be willing to become a suicide bomber in Israel.

The situation for Jews in France is worse than in England, as demonstrable by the fleeing by French Jews and the bunker mentality of those remaining.

The Charge is Likely False

There is no evidence any Jew was involved. AFP admits as much near the bottom of its story ("it was not known who was behind the incident"). Despite this the headline of the story asserts the perpetrators were not only "Jewish settlers," but the opening sentence further classifies them as the "hardline" variety.

The mainstream media essentially spiked the news that the Dutch cartoon violence was incited by Danish imams with fake, truly offensive cartoons.

The story doesn't make sense. The insult was written in Hebrew? Why not write it in Arabic if the goal was to offend Arabs? We're only talking about 2-3 words to make his point, after all. He drew a Star of David? This is a ubiquitous staple of Arab anti-Semitism. He wore a kippa (skullcap) while writing the precise formula of death sanctioned by Muslim Law? As likely as a naked female burglar hitting Mike Tyson's house. A Muslim devoted to the mosque cowered in hiding under such conditions without raising an alarm? Farfetched.

Why is the burden of proof always on the Jew? Islamists and Arab dictators float monstrous anti-Semitic blood libels on a daily basis to spread incitement. The examples are everywhere but the news reporting (Jews use the blood of non-Jews in holiday food preparation, Israel perpetrated 9/11 so the Jews were told to stay home, the Holocaust never happened, Israel contributed to the Holocaust, the Holocaust should happen to the Jews again). The sole witness to the alleged incident had likely heard more anti-Jewish blood libels sermonized in that mosque than had Hitler's speech consultant. (I'm referring to the German Hitler, not to the more than 25 notable Palestinians of that name.)

As the latest Arab charge spreads halfway around the world, an Israeli investigation invariably gets its boots on to "show the world how committed Israel is to due process." By the time the investigation ends (at which point the charge is generally debunked or the perpetrator punished), the news cycle on the story is long over.

The mainstream media has rarely pointed out that Palestinian power-brokers' disdain for Western norms is only exceeded by their avarice and capricious violence. Except when it is used as an excuse for Palestinians' en masse endorsement of a party dedicated to genocide, in which case it's universally cited. The fact that Hamas' charter is essentially the equivalent of this grafitti, full of references to the Protocols of Zion and Freemasons, is omitted.

No context was given to the story, such as the fact that in the Arab-controlled areas of the West Bank, "there is no wall...that was not filled with grafitti, with slogans such as 'we knock on the gates of heaven with the skulls of Jews.'"

Need I mention that there has likely never in history been a Muslim punished by a Muslim authority for anti-Semitism? I would even guess that this extends even to moral criticism or apology offered. In Israel, however, there is probably an Internet traffic spike now with all the apologies, condemnations and threats of punishment.

Of course, if my logic is indeed incorrect, it is indeed worth pondering that the entire incident would revolve around the actions of a single person (by some reports), universally condemned.

See also: Anti-Muslim Epithet Scribbled on Mosque Ignites Riots in Samaria