Thursday, December 27, 2012

Forbidden to Celebrate: Israel’s War on Christmas Continues Despite Netanyahu’s Claim of Tolerance


Netanyahu’s professions of tolerance would have come as news to Palestinian Christian students at Safad Academic College in the Galilee. There, students who could not get home for the holidays bought a Christmas tree and set it up outside their dorm.'

But in the evening when they got back from class, they found the tree was gone, Israel’s Walla! News reported.

"This is the saddest Christmas," said Gabriel Mansour, 24, a third-year political science student, identified by Walla! as a representative of Arab students. "All we wanted to do was provide some good cheer for all the students who remained alone in the dorms, and who were unable to go home to their families." .... http://uruknet.info