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Our own Jennifer Hanin recently reacted to the ongoing investigation of Melanie Phillips, after she called those responsible for the Fogel family massacre “savages”. Apparently, a pro-Muslim group on the UK took offense at her language and felt it required police review. Here is Jennifer’s commentary…

From JenniferHanin.com

As a law abid­ing cit­i­zen, I under­stand that when a com­plaint is made to the police, the police have an oblig­a­tion to inves­ti­gate. I would assume the inves­ti­ga­tion of columnist/ author Melanie Phillips falls in this rote cat­e­gory. Yet, when eval­u­at­ing the duplic­i­tous nature of her accuser, Inayat Bun­galawa, and his disin­gen­u­ous orga­ni­za­tion, Muslims4UK, this com­plaint war­rants a closer look at the accuser and his attempt to silence Phillips rather than the accused.

I’ve watched the Melanie Phillips story unfold and have to ask when it is the law of the land in the UK to inves­ti­gate jour­nal­ists just because they insin­u­ate Arab mur­der­ers are “sav­ages”? As I recall, the Jew­ish Peo­ple have had their fair share of ridicule from this same group: anti-Israel Arabs. In fact, most anti-Israel Arabs sling words like “occu­pier,” “Nazi,” “apartheid” not to men­tion phrases like “filthy Zion­ist regime,” or even insane com­par­isons to “mon­keys,” “pigs,” “microbe bac­te­ria” or least inge­nious, “men­tally ill.”

“Sav­ages” is an appro­pri­ate word to describe ter­ror­ists that scale a smart fence, break into a home, knife five mem­bers in the heart and decap­i­tate a three month old baby.

Until dia­logue meant to dehu­man­ize Israeli Jews sub­sides and anti-Israel Arabs stop dis­mem­ber­ing Israeli Jew­ish fam­i­lies, these heinous acts will only mul­ti­ply. In fact, they just did. Today, there was a ter­ror­ist bomb­ing in cen­tral Jerusalem and the last week has seen a dra­matic increase in rocket attacks on south­ern Israel.

The Fogel fam­ily mem­bers that had their life cut right out of them were many things; first and fore­most they were fam­ily mem­bers, they were cit­i­zens, they were neigh­bors, they were com­mu­nity mem­bers, they were Israelis and they were Jews. Anti-Israel forces have long since hijacked the term “set­tler” and the lib­eral media has con­sumed it and regur­gi­tates it only when using it in a neg­a­tive way. If any­thing, Phillips was right on in her Spec­ta­tor arti­cle when she said the fol­low­ing state­ments in quotes:

The moral deprav­ity of the Arabs is find­ing a grotesque echo in the moral bank­ruptcy and worse of the British and Amer­i­can ‘lib­eral’ media,”

Any­one with moral com­pass would not have com­plained to the Press Com­plaints Com­mis­sion nor would they have filed a police report with the UK Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police.

“Over­whelm­ingly, the media have either ignored or down­played the atroc­ity – or worse, effec­tively blamed the vic­tims for bring­ing it on them­selves, describ­ing them as ‘hard-line set­tlers’ or extremists.

This is exactly the case. The Los Ange­les Times sug­gested that the Fogel fam­ily mas­sacre resulted from a “revenge” attack while the New York Times claimed the attack jeop­ar­dized peace prospects. Other lib­eral media are polar­iz­ing pub­lic opinion against Israel by mak­ing  sim­i­lar claims.

“To the New York Times, it’s not the Arab mas­sacre of a Jew­ish fam­ily which has jeopardized ‘peace prospects’ – because the Israelis will quite rightly never trust any agree­ment with such sav­ages – but instead Israeli pol­icy on build­ing more homes, on land to which it is legally and morally enti­tled, which is respon­si­ble instead for mak­ing peace elu­sive. Twisted, and sick.”

Israel is the only place in the world where it’s seen as a crime if Israelis build on their land. It’s a no-win sit­u­a­tion and the stale­mate fuels new anti­semitism, which boils down to using anti-Israel tac­tics as veiled Jew hatred.

Lastly, let’s not for­get that the ter­ror­ists at large not only slaugh­tered the Fogels in their own home, they silenced them for­ever, tak­ing away any right to make a com­plaint against groups like  Muslims4UK. This atroc­ity comes on the heels of years of Pales­tin­ian incite­ment that is fueled by lies, mis­in­for­ma­tion and sheer big­otry and hatred. Let’s not insult the mem­ory of Udi (father, age 36), Ruth (mother age 35), Yoav (age 11), Elad (age 4) and Hadas (age 3 months) by feed­ing into dia­bol­i­cal charges.

Instead, let’s use this as an oppor­tu­nity to ask Arabs to play nicely and watch the words they use when referring to Jews and Israelis. Bot­tom line: if the anti-Israel Arab com­mu­nity spent as much time on mak­ing peace and progress as a peo­ple as they do com­mit­ting heinous acts, shelling Israeli towns, blow­ing up buses, pro­mot­ing BDS, cir­cum­vent­ing the peace process and fil­ing friv­o­lous com­plaints, Pales­tini­ans would have a state.

I believe the Phillips case was brought about with­out merit to silence her free speech. I ask that all author­i­ties includ­ing the Press Com­plaints Com­mis­sion and the UK Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police con­sider the con­tents of this let­ter and turn your inquiries to the bogus inten­tions and friv­o­lous activ­i­ties of the Muslim4UK instead.

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