Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 14.08.2024
The Zionist narrative is based on a lie that the European colonialists who occupied Palestine are the children of the ancient Jews who returned to their ancient land. The anti-Zionists do not claim that Jews lived in Palestine 2000 years ago but that there is no connection between the European settler colonialists and the ancient Jews. Similarly, the ant-Zionists do not claim that the ancient Jews had temples in or around Jerusalem but not in the al-Haram al-Sharif, known as well as the Noble Sanctuary, where the Muslim mosques the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque, which was built in the 8th century in Jerusalem.
Since the Zionists plan to destroy these mosques and build a third temple instead, they distorted the anti-Zionist argument. Here is a typical distortion that appears in the Jerusalem Post
“As with every year, Tisha B’Av, the Jewish day of mourning the destruction of the two Temples and the exile of Jews from Judea by the Romans in the year 70 CE, sparked controversy on Temple Mount as Jewish worshipers defied the status quo and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s directives and praying and prostrating in the holy place.
On the backdrop of the political, religious, and diplomatic prospects, Tisha B’Av also catalyzes a well-established practice across the pro-Palestinian world, nicknamed “Temple denial.” This practice provides anti-Zionist voices with a platform to deny the indigeneity of the Jewish people to Israel, negating empirical historical facts, all in an attempt to strip Israel of its right to exist.
One example is Israeli MK Ahmed Tibi, who denied the existence of the Temple in a 2014 interview. He was asked, “Was there a temple on the Temple Mount?” to which he answered, “These are imagined things. Do you have proof? There were archaeological diggings for years—and what did they find?”[i]
MK Ahmed Tibi does not deny that there were Jewish temples but not in the al-Haram al-Sharif (What the Zionists call Temple Mount). Here is another example in the Jerusalem Post:
In an article on Al Jazeera titled “The Jewish myth of Solomon’s Temple…does it stand up to historical facts?” the temple was repeatedly referred to as “the alleged temple,” arguing that “Since the Jews occupied the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967 until today, they have been trying to find any trace that indicates the remains of the alleged temple, and proves its location under the Noble Sanctuary.”[ii]
The Jews did not raise the issue of searching for Solomon’s Temple and rebuilding it until the nineteenth century, in the context of the search for historical claims of the Jews in Palestine, in preparation for issuing the famous Balfour Declaration and beginning the establishment of a national state for them on Palestinian lands.”
“Jewish writings appeared in major Western newspapers calling for the rebuilding of the Temple in Palestine. Then, the first practical steps in this direction were on 20/3/1918, when a Jewish mission led by Chaim Weizmann arrived in Jerusalem and submitted a request to the British military governor at the time, General Storrs, asking him to establish a Hebrew university in Jerusalem and take over the al-Buraq (Western) Wall in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in addition to a project to own lands in the Holy City.”[iii]
Al Jazeera told the truth until Jewish Zionism appeared. The Jews who lived in Palestine in the four holy cities, among them Jerusalem, prayed in the Olives mountain.
Down with the Zionist apartheid state!
For Palestine red and free from the river to the sea!
[i] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-814591
[ii] Ibid
[iii] Ibid