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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Lapid calls October 7 eatery in Jordan ‘disgraceful’
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid calls on Amman to curb incitement against Israel following the circulation of social media videos showing a restaurant in the Jordanian city of Kerak named “October 7,” an apparent celebration of the Palestinian terror group Hamas’s massacre of Israelis on that day.
“The disgraceful glorification of October 7th has to stop. The incitement and hatred against Israel breeds the terrorism and extremism which led to the brutal massacre of October 7th,” Lapid tweets in English. “We expect the Jordanian government to condemn this publicly and unequivocally.”
The disgraceful glorification of October 7th has to stop. The incitement and hatred against Israel breeds the terrorism and extremism which led to the brutal massacre of October 7th.
We expect the Jordanian government to condemn this publicly and unequivocaly https://t.co/KwyeqHAiXO
— יאיר לפיד – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) January 25, 2024
Anger over the name of the shawarma joint has spread around Israel since a video of the place emerged online yesterday. In the clip, by former Muslim Brotherhood lawmaker Dima Tahboub, an unidentified man films the customer-packed restaurant from outside, as well as its surroundings, and then goes into the eatery, where customers and employees with “October 7” robes greet him.
The eatery has said on Facebook it will not change its name, which was chosen via a contest, according to Israel’s Channel 12 news.
