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April 14, 2023

Hamas Supporters Desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque, and International Opinion Blames Israel

“Worshippers” were not the target of last week’s police raid.

“Israeli Police Raid Jerusalem Mosque,” read a characteristically misleading New York Times headline last week. The caption to the accompanying photograph explained that the police “arrested Palestinian worshipers who had barricaded themselves inside a prayer hall at a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City.” But, as Bassam Tawil explains, those arrested were not worshippers in any usual sense:

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