Attempts to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem

Denying the centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish People is an ongoing PA campaign, in words and in actual destruction of history. Op-ed.

By Alex Grobman, PhD

Rainbow over the Temple Mount and the Mount of OlivesYonadev Horowitz

Attempts to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem are part of this unrelenting war against Israel. The Palestinian Authority (PA) mendacously accuses the Jewish state of fashioning a false Jewish history, while appropriating Palestinian Arab history, culture and heritage. The Palestinians Arabs refer to these actions as “Judaization.

As Palestinian Media Watch founder Itamar Marcus explains, the main target is supposedly the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which Israel allegedly schemes to demolish to build the Jewish Temple. PA political and religious leaders, officials and academics refer to the Temple as Al-Haikal Al-Maz’oom, the “alleged Temple.”

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