An article appeared on the JewishPress.com website yesterday
in which Hana
Levi Julian claimed that Jerusalem Arabs were paid by the Palestinian
Authority to riot over the Temple Mount.
According to Julian,
Jerusalem Arabs
were promised monetary stipends of $1,000 per month for up to three months.
They were also given discounts and exemptions from payments to the Jerusalem
District Electric Company, which supplies power to the Arab-majority
neighborhoods in the area.
Arab college
students in the Old City of Jerusalem who participated in anti-Israel clashes
were promised free tuition by the Palestinian Authority, according to the
report.
All the
employees of the Islamic Waqf Authority – which manages the holy sites on the
Temple Mount but which falls under the auspices of the Government of Jordan –
were also promised cash payments, according to the report, as were Arab
merchants in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The only evidence provided in Julian’s article is from Gal
Berger from Kann News and Berger’s Twitter
account posting from July 30, 2017. Once
on his site, I found a copy
of a letter written in Arabic dated July 25, 2017 that appears to have come
from the Palestinian Authorities.
On a critical note, I say appears to have come from the
Palestinian Authority. It would be nice to have additional
verification on the story. The story
does appear on i24
News and The
Times of Israel sites, however, their source is Channel 2. There is no reference to a primary source or document.
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