The Zion Square assault, also described by Israeli police,[1] the judge who passed sentence,[2] Israeli and foreign media as a "lynch" or "attempted lynch(ing)",[3][4][5][6][7] was an attack by Israeli youths against four Palestinian teenagers that took place on the night of 16–17 August 2012 at Zion Square in Jerusalem. The four were chased by 10–15 teenagers and a 17-year-old Palestinian boy Jamal Julani was beaten unconscious and subsequently found to be in a critical condition.[8][9][10][11]
Originally reported by police as a brawl between two groups, the incident achieved notoriety after an Israeli eyewitness posted an account on Facebook reporting that dozens of Israeli youths had tried to beat to death three Arab youths, and that, when one fell, they continued to kick his head. After the assailants fled, others in the vicinity stood about shouting angrily. When Israeli volunteers on the scene gave the boy assistance, their action was greeted by bystanders with expressions of resentment.[12] Julani had a heart condition and had to be revived by a responding medic. He was released from hospital a week after the attack.[13] In July 2013 he was still undergoing neurological and psychological care.[14] An eyewitness reported that police marked the site as a murder scene.[15]
Reports said that during the episode a policeman observed the assault without intervening. However, a police investigation determined that this referred to an earlier altercation nearby.[16] Prompt intervention by Magen David Adom, including C.P.R., managed to revive him. Authorities called his survival a miracle.[17] Police commissioner Yohanan Danino told the press, "The lynch in Jerusalem was the most severe and contemptible act imaginable in a democratic law-abiding country."[4]
On 19 August, Israeli police arrested several Israeli teenagers, the youngest of whom was 13 years old. One of the suspects expressed no regret. The attack took place on the same day as a firebombing of a Palestinian taxi driving near the Israeli settlement of Bat Ayin in which a Palestinian family of 5 and their driver suffered serious burns.[18][5] The incidents were condemned in Israel and throughout the world[19] and a national debate over anti-Arabism ensued.[18]
^Joel Greenberg, 'Jerusalem's late-night dark side,' Haaretz 26 August 2012:'It was a late summer night on Jerusalem's Jaffa Road, nearly a week after the pummeling of a young Arab by a group of Jewish teenagers a few blocks away in Zion Square, an attack police called an attempted lynch.'
^"3 minors sentenced to imprisonment in J'lem mob attack on Arab youth". The Jerusalem Post. 8 July 2013. Judge Ya'akov Tzaban, who handed out the sentences, was quoted by Channel 10 as saying the defendants were part of 'a group of youths that were motivated by hatred and carried out a lynch'.
^'Commentary on the commentary,' Seth J. Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post, August 26, 2012
^ abMark Weiss (24 August 2012). "Knesset speaker condemns racist attack". The Irish Times.
^ abIsabel Kershner (20 August 2012). "Young Israelis Held in Attack on Arabs". The New York Times.
^Jodi Rudoren; Isabel Kershner (27 August 2012). "After Attacks, Israeli Schools Confront Hate". The New York Times.
^Yuval Ben-Ami (21 August 2012). "Palestinian victims of violent attacks get a surprise visit". Haaretz.
^Lahav Harkov (23 August 2012). "Rivlin to Arab J'lem 'lynching' victim: We're sorry". The Jerusalem Post. Eight teenagers were arrested this week for beating Julani almost to death.
^"Israeli youths arrested over assault on Palestinians". BBC News. 20 August 2012. An Israeli policeman said Jamal was beaten so severely that he lost consciousness and was thought to be dead until a paramedic crew arrived and resuscitated him.
^Akiva Eldar (29 August 2012). "Israel Police may probe group warning Arab men not to date Jewish women". Haaretz. the nearly fatal group beating of an Arab teenager in downtown Jerusalem earlier this month
^Tamar Rotem (26 August 2012). "A sinister history of anti-Arab violence". Haaretz.
^Robert Mackey (20 August 2012). "Account of 'a Lynch' in Jerusalem on Facebook". The New York Times.
^'Palestinian victim of hate attack leaves hospital,' Agence France-Presse, 24 August 2012.
^Yair Ettinger (8 July 2013). "Jerusalem court hands jail terms to three Jewish minors over Arab lynchings". Haaretz.
^Nir Hasson (17 August 2012). "In suspected Jerusalem lynch, dozens of Jewish youths attack 3 Palestinians". Haaretz.
^Cite error: The named reference Kalman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Amy Davidson (21 August 2012). "An Attack in Zion Square". The New Yorker.
^ abLaura Smith-Spark, 'Attacks on Arabs in Israel prompt soul-searching,' CNN 31 August 2012.
^Natasha Mozgovaya (22 August 2012). "Jewish organizations condemn recent attacks against Palestinians". Haaretz.
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