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Monday, December 26, 2016
Hamas blasts Jews, Muslims dancing at Bahrain Hanukkah party
Hamas issues an outraged response to scenes of Jewish and Muslim men dancing together at a Hanukkah party in Bahrain yesterday, calling it a “disgraceful spectacle.”
In a statement, the group expresses its amazement that “in light of the increasing pace of international sympathy for the Palestinian cause… and the growing international boycott of the Zionist movement in all forms, a group of dignitaries and traders in the State of Bahrain hosted a Zionist, racist and extremist Jewish delegation and danced with them in a humiliating and disgraceful spectacle.”
The group calls on Bahrain to “fully stop any form of normalization with the Zionist enemy.”