Free Speech Crackdown on the Temple Mount

By Published On: January 5, 2017

erase-temple-mount.gif

The Palestinians are trying to change history by outlawing the term “Temple Mount.”

First they simply denied that there had ever been any Jewish Temples on the Temple Mount.

Then they sent out media advisories to journalists telling them that the term “Temple Mount” was illegitimate.

They brought resolutions to UNESCO that verbally erased the term “Temple Mount” and described it only in Muslim terms.

And now they’ve cracked down on an archaeologist who used the term during a tour he guided for university students on the Temple Mount. As the Jerusalem Post reports:

Jerusalem Prize winner and Temple Mount Sifting Project cofounder Dr. Gabriel Barkay said he was guiding an interfaith group of 22 undergraduates from UCLA when he was interrupted by an Arab guard for making the seemingly innocuous reference.

“I was lecturing about the history of the Temple Mount to the students, some of whom were Muslim and Christian, and one of the Wakf guards tried to listen to my explanations, and when he heard the words ‘Temple Mount,’ he got upset,” Barkay said.

The guard then consulted with nearby police officers stationed on the compound, who told Barkay to cease using the term for the duration of the visit.

What next? Will they burn all books that mention the Temple Mount? Destroy all historical accounts?

Read more about the battle over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount here.

We expose the anti-Israel lies so you don't have to. But we can't do it without your help. Join the fight -- Donate now
CAMERA logo
Tell the World – Share Now!

More from SNAPSHOTS

  • Revealed: Palestinian ‘Journalist’ Killed at Gaza Border was a Terrorist

    May 1, 2018

    PFLP operatives A Palestinian journalist who died from wounds received during the Hamas-led “Great Return March” has been identified as a terrorist. Ahmed Abu Hussein, a journalist who worked with Bisann News and Voice of [...]

  • NBC’s CAIR-Less Coverage

    April 26, 2018

    The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) portrays itself as a U.S. civil rights organization. However, as numerous terrorist analysts and the U.S. government itself has noted, CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2009 [...]

  • After Six Corrections, LA Times Again Errs on ‘Palestine’ Terminology

    April 24, 2018

    After half a dozen corrections in over a decade, The Los Angeles Times again uses the term “Palestine” to refer to Palestinian Authority areas. In an April 19 movie review about the first female sharia [...]

  • AFP Calls Eastern Jerusalem Palestinian Territory

    April 24, 2018

    The influential news agency Agence France Presse has taken it upon itself to redraw the map, placing eastern Jerusalem in the Palestinian territories. In the April 22 article (“No boycott fear, say organisers of ‘Giro’ [...]

  • Poll: Majority of Palestinians Fear Their Own Government

    April 23, 2018

    PA President Mahmoud Abbas and European Union Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini A majority of Palestinians living in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) fear the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to a poll by the Palestinian [...]

  • LA Times Replaces Solid AP Headline With Biased Headline

    April 23, 2018

    "Hamas vows revenge for key member killed in Malaysia," was the perfectly accurate and straightforward Associated Press headline (reproduced here in The Washington Post) about the killing Saturday of key Hamas member Fadi Batsh in [...]

  • Iran Has Sleeper Cells in the U.S.—And the Media is Fast Asleep

    April 20, 2018

    Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah The Islamic Republic of Iran has proxies serving as “sleeper cells” in the U.S., according to sworn congressional testimony. Yet, U.S. news outlets have largely neglected the story. Several “intelligence officials [...]

  • Where’s the Coverage? Iranian Drone Shot Down by Israel Was Armed

    April 19, 2018

    Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamanei Israeli officials have recently disclosed that an Iranian drone shot down by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) on Feb. 10, 2018 was armed. However, many major U.S. news outlets have [...]

  • The Presbyterian Church USA Is Obsessed With Israel

    April 18, 2018

    Here’s a good rule of thumb. If someone from the Presbyterian Church (USA) tries to tell you their peacemaking agenda is not about the Jews, you can be sure it’s about the Jews. The Presbyterian [...]

  • Haaretz Editorial Repeats Inaccuracy About East Jerusalem Arabs

    April 17, 2018

    Despite the fact that just last month Haaretz corrected a news story which erred on the status of east Jerusalem Arabs, an April 10 editorial again misrepresents about the rights of this population, stating: Palestinians [...]