The British Broadcasting Corporation \”got it wrong\” in its reporting of the massacre of the Fogel family by Palestinians in the West Bank village of Itamar, the broadcaster\’s outgoing director-general said at a parliamentary committee hearing.
Tamar Fogel, the 12-year-old girl from the Jewish settlement of Itamar who discovered the murders of her parents and three siblings when she came home last Friday night from her youth movement, speaks with Israel\’s Channel 2 during her shiva for her family.
Malcolm Hoenlein slammed governments, including the Obama administration, for not denouncing the naming of a square in a West Bank town after a terrorist. \”If governments, even our own, do not stand up,\” then the Jewish people must \”make our voices heard\” and \”demand accountability and consequences,\” Hoenlein, the executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said Thursday at a memorial service for the parents and three children of the Fogel family who were murdered last Friday night in the West Bank settlement of Itamar.
Almost as soon as the catastrophe in Japan began unfolding last Friday, Jewish groups scrambled to figure out how to get help to the area. In Israel, search-and-rescue organizations like ZAKA and IsraAid readied teams to head to the Japanese devastation zone. In Tokyo, the Chabad center took an accounting of local Jews and began organizing a shipment of aid to stricken cities to the north. In the United States, aid organizations ranging from B’nai B’rith International to local and national federation agencies launched campaigns to collect money for rescue, relief and rebuilding efforts in the Pacific.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the killing of five members of a West Bank Jewish family \”despicable,\” \”inhuman and immoral.\” \”A human being is not capable of something like that,\” Abbas said in Arabic during an interview Monday morning on Israel Radio. His words were translated into Hebrew by the interviewer.
Palestinians in an official ceremony named a town square in the West Bank after a terrorist involved in killing 37 Israelis.
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