Jewish Home MK Moti Yogev was filmed today shouting and swearing at an Arab woman who was walking on a street in the Old City of Jerusalem, and also confronting police officers who tried to secure a pathway for the woman.
“Go to the grave,” Yogev shouts at the woman.
The incident takes place in the Old City’s Hagai Street, where two Israelis were killed in a terror attack on Saturday. A group of Israeli Jews arrived at the scene today for a Torah lesson. MK Yogev was among the participants. When the woman passed next to the group, Yogev shouted at her: “You will not pass here! Only Jews!”
“An Arab who swears at Jews and scorns the family of the murdered will not pass here freely,” Yogev is later quoted as saying by Channel 2. “Any Arab who documented [the murder on their phones] and didn’t help the wounded is an accomplice to murder. Those who want to live in peace, we will live with them in peace. Those who murder or who help murderers – we’ll see to it that their store never opens again. It cannot be that a Jew cannot walk safely in Jerusalem,” he says.
MK Moti Yogev of the Jewish Home party (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
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