PA TV lies, saying no synagogues were burned during the Lod riots, ignoring 10 cases of synagogue arson
Official PA TV program Talk of the Hour, on the Human Rights Watch report on the Arab riots in the Israeli city of Lod during the Fatah/Hamas Riot and Rocket War 2021 – see note below
Lod Popular Committee member, lawyer Khaled Zabarqah: “When all the uncertainty about the events calmed down, I started to ask everyone and the clerks who are responsible in [Lod]: Where are the synagogues? I want to see the synagogues that were burned in the city. It is unacceptable to us that synagogues are burned in the city, or places of worship, or that cemeteries are harmed. It is unacceptable, morally we do not accept this. It turns out that not even a single synagogue was intentionally burned (sic., 10 synagogues were intentionally burned by Arab rioters, including in Lod).
There is a synagogue [in the city] called Dosa [Synagogue] – a tree was burned next to it, it fell on it, and a kind of fire started inside of it (sic., Arab rioters initially failed to burn the synagogue by throwing firebombs at it, instead igniting a tree next to it, but in a later attempt they broke the synagogue’s door, smashed its windows, and set the structure on fire).
There was a Torah scroll inside a yeshiva (Jewish religious studies academy) in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood [of Lod], they burned the yeshiva, a room was burned inside of it that afterwards they claimed they use as a synagogue (yeshivas regularly serve as places for students to pray -Ed.). But they didn’t burn Jewish synagogues (sic.). I asked: Why is the Israeli media repeating this version? This is fake news, and not only fake but it also serves as incitement.”