Mission & Justice

Jack Khoury; 17/10/08 (4 items)

Israeli Arab groups on Thursday branded last week’s violent clashes in Acre as an attempt to expel the northern city’s Arab residents. Acre-based Israeli Arab community groups will announce this claim on Thursday at a press conference in conjunction with Arab families that have been forced out of their houses in the city’s eastern neighborhood in the wake of the clashes. The groups claim that the riots that have swept across the mixed city since last week’s Yom Kippur were in fact a premeditated attempt at ethnic cleansing.

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8/8/08

A group of men who police suspect were hired by an ultra-Orthodox gang recently broke in to a Jerusalem woman’s home and beat her because they deemed her immodest. The so-called Modesty Guard is suspected of being behind the incident. The gang has been known to unleash extortion, mercenaries, violence and surveillance on less religious Jews they deem sacrilegious. They claim to do it all in the name of God. The incident may be one of a string of signs of rising ultra-Orthodox violence. Last year, five Haredi Jews assaulted a woman and an Israel Defense Forces soldier because they sat next to one another on a Jerusalem bus.

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