Amona residents try to distance themselves from the violent actions of the protesters inside the outpost’s synagogue.
A spokesperson for the settlement says none of the people inside the synagogue was actually from Amona.
However, a number of Amona residents, including the outpost’s rabbi along with community leader Avichai Boaran, were inside the synagogue at the time of the clashes between protesters and police.
When confronted with this fact, the Amona spokesperson admits that a number of residents were in the building, but says they were there “with the intention of convincing [the protesters] to leave without violence.”
At some point, though it is not clear exactly when, demonstrators drew a swastika on a wall of the synagogue in a drawing that compared the Israel Police to Nazis.
Graffiti daubed on the wall of Amona synagogue shows a swastika and the slogan ‘Ishmael Police’ — a reference to the Israel Police force and to Ishmael, the son of the biblical patriarch Abraham believed by some to be the forebear of today’s Arabs. (screen capture: Channel 2)
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