PC critics: Headscarf prompted Israel's toy confiscation

When Israeli customs officials confiscated a load of 4,000 children's dolls, they explained it was because the dolls had upraised arms with the image of a stone attached to the hand, and such a representation of throwing rocks could be used to incite violence.

Actually, the Palestinian media now has explained, the dolls were confiscated because they wore keffiyahs, the popular Palestinian headscarf.

That's according to officials with the Palestinian Media Watch, which monitors, reports on and analyzes the statements in the Middle East media.

WND reported just this week on the seizure by customs of the dolls, which were in a shipment intended for Palestinians that originated in the United Arab Emirates.

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According to the Foreign Policy website, the 4,000 tiny dolls were dressed up with keffiyehs covering their faces and their right arms raised, holding a stone, ready to throw.

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The shipment had been marked clothing, rugs and plastic products, but what was found were stuffed toys wearing red, green, black and white scarves, inscribed with, "Jerusalem is ours."

Pieces of cloth, dyed gray, resembled stones in their right hands.

"These dolls were making their way to the Palestinian Authority with one clear purpose," Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said in the report. "And that was to poison the minds of innocent children."

Hotovely made clear she believes any Palestinian adult ordering such a toy for his or her child is encouraging violence.

Now the PMW is pointing out that the official Palestinian Authority daily has attributed the confiscation to the headscarves.

The report in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida said, "Yesterday, the Israeli Customs Authority at the Haifa Port … confiscated 4,000 dolls whose faces were covered with a Palestinian keffiyeh. The Customs Authority stated that it confiscated a container of 4,000 dollars from the Emirates at Haifa Port because they 'incite against Israel.'"

There was no mention in the report of the hand holding a rock.

"The official PA daily referred to the confiscation as the 'Israeli war against children's dolls' …. And pretended the problem was the Palestinian headscarf," PMW reported.

"This reaction is not surprising as the rock-throwing doll fits nicely the hate and violence messages of PA children's education," the report said.

The organization cited the fact that a PA school recently named a football tournament after a terrorist who stabbed and seriously injured two people.

"Similarly, Fatah official Tawfiq Tiraqi praised his 2-year-old son for singing, 'Daddy, buy me a machine gun and a rifle, so that I will defeat Israel and the Zionists,'" the report said.

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PMW reported it also has documented the promotion to children of martyrdom.

"The rock-throwing doll fits the PA and Fatah's policy of promoting violence and glorifying terrorists in general, and its clear support for the current wave of terror attacks and murder of Israelis in particular," PMW reported.

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Only a day earlier, WND reported on the surge in promotions of stabbing among Palestinians.

"The current Palestinian terror wave is an excellent example of how the Palestinian population has responded to the leadership's message," the PMW report explained. "Mahmoud Abbas and other PA leaders sparked the current terror and violence by frequently reiterating the PA libel that Israel is planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and they called on Palestinians to 'defend it,' 'bless[ed] every drop of blood spilled' for it, 'congratulated' the murderers and much more.

"Responding to the call, and following the praise and support from PA and Fatah leaders, among them Abbas, who referred to stabbings as 'peaceful popular uprising,' Palestinians are – independent of the leadership – inciting to murder on social media, including encouraging people to slit the throats of Jews, and committing murder themselves," the report said.

In one video, a tiny girl waves a foot-long knife and shouts, "Stab! Stab! Stab! Stab! Stab!" to the question of what she would tell Palestinians in the West Bank.

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PMW reports that another Facebook feature in the Palestinian community shows a staged stabbing of two Jews.

The video portrays two "Jews" harassing several children playing in the streets, and "in revenge, a young Palestinian ambushes them, stabs one and slits the throat of the other, killing them both."

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Yet another includes video clips of real – and violent – stabbing attacks on Jews.

The music video's lyrics include, "Let fear come down on them, and let death come for them in a flash. Children of Zion, tell of the swords that were openly plunged in you."

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The PMW explains that the current wave of violence includes an attack by 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist Muhannad Halabi, who in October killed Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Bennett, and injured Bennett's wife, Adele, and 2-year-old son, in a stabbing.

Also, PMW reported Fadi Alloun, another 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist, stabbed and injured Israeli citizen Moshe Malka at the same time.

WND also had reported on earlier promotions of the stabbing theme, sometimes using toddlers.