Israeli incitement to the Jerusalem schools of faith

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The incitement of the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth to "schools of faith" in Jerusalem carries an electoral dimension to win the votes of the right on the one hand, and represents a target for the schools of Jerusalemites who are confronting attempts to Judaization and obliteration of identity on the other.

Al-Iman Private Schools, which have been licensed by the Israeli justice and education ministries in East Jerusalem since 1984 and have 3,000 students in five campuses, are run by Hamas and cooperating with Turkish organizations and associations, the report said. Acting against and inciting Israel. "

The paper attacked the director general of Al-Iman schools, Sheikh Jamil Hamami, claiming that he "belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood and one of the founders of Hamas in Jerusalem," and addressed a speech in 2013 in which he wished "the Holocaust to everyone who believes in the possibility of coexistence with the Israeli occupation."

The newspaper's incitement to educational facilities and personalities in Jerusalem also extended to include the head of the Board of Trustees of Al-Iman Schools, Sheikh Abdul Azim Salhab, and spoke about his position as Chairman of the Awqaf Council in Jerusalem, and his role in the gift of Bab al-Rahma, saying that "he was at the head of those who led the crisis."

Incitement also involved Turkish associations, and the Israeli newspaper claimed that the Iman Schools Network had close ties with Turkish pro-Hamas organizations and associations and in recent years supported a third intifada in support of Palestinian operations against settlers.

Timing
The newspaper's incitement comes as part of the polarization between the Jewish Home and Yisrael Beiteinu, whose leader Avigdor Lieberman said that former Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett and former Justice Minister Elit Shaked, both from the Jewish Home Party, were granted licenses to schools of faith during Their tenure as ministers.

The current Israeli minister of education, temporary, Rafi Peretz, entered the line and promised to "examine the information carefully," and said that "strict measures will be taken up to the closure of the network of faith schools if the information proved to be true."

"The Turkish consulate and TIKA, as well as humanitarian and social associations operating in Jerusalem, are a political and economic arm working in coordination with the office of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who dreams of being the religious leader of all Muslims in the world," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Manuel Nahshon was quoted as saying. .

The Israeli spokesman claimed that "the annual rate of support for Almoravit and Almoravat, schools, clubs and associations and the repair of houses and the establishment of educational camps to teach the Turkish language in East Jerusalem exceeds 40 million dollars annually."

refutation
Jamil Hammami, director general of Al-Iman Schools, refuted Israeli claims, saying, "I am not surprised by these conflicts, which we are not a party to, but rather between Israeli political parties to contest the elections, and they are usually looking at such a stage for some of them to win votes."

He stressed to Al Jazeera Net his rejection of the sentence in detail in the report of the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, "because it is not based on facts, but makes baseless accusations," stressing "our schools are going according to the Palestinian curriculum taught in all Palestinian schools did not prove that we committed any offense recorded on us, We are keen to work within an educational framework that is limited to educational activities that are completely free from politics. ”

On the accusation of the Israeli parties accusing Al-Iman schools of receiving support from Turkish associations, Hamami said: "This is a fabrication, we have not recorded that we have received support from any institution classified by the Israeli institution according to its wishes .. The Palestinian people receive support from Arab, Turkish and European institutions and we thank everyone who gives us any Support for the upgrading of schools of faith, and we do not know that this institution is classified such or such, we are keen to be a legal institutional work properly. "

In turn, media adviser Mohammed Masalha said that "the bombing of this issue in the media at this time comes in the context of the rivalry over the voices of the right-wing camp between the Yisrael Beiteinu party, whose leaders revealed this subject in their propaganda campaign against Bennett and Shaked from the Jewish house and accused of being responsible for granting the necessary licenses to schools of faith. And facilitate the work of the Turkish associations with the cover and the tip of a party by Benjamin Netanyahu. "