{"id":320,"date":"2011-11-26T16:31:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/isittheendoftheworld\/?p=320"},"modified":"2011-11-26T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T21:31:57","slug":"the-martyrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/isittheendoftheworld\/2011\/11\/the-martyrs.html","title":{"rendered":"The Martyrs"},"content":{"rendered":"

While walking through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City earlier this year, I noticed posters in the window of a sweets shop. I wondered how many tourists would understand what the posters are.<\/p>\n

As is popular in Palestinian culture, the posters are depictions of the “shaheeds,” or martyrs\u2014those who blow themselves up in a bid to kill Jews. <\/p>\n

Does this cultural predilection bother anyone in the world? Does it bother the UN? Does it bother the International Solidarity Movement? Does it bother American Christians who support the Palestinians?<\/p>\n

A culture of murder and death should not be met with yawns or disinterest. There is in fact an opposite reaction, such as the so-called divestment campaign, in which Palestinian supporters refuse to buy goods from “occupied territory,” products made by Israelis.<\/p>\n

That reaction is a two-way street.<\/p>\n

I bought nothing from the shop owner who glorifies the murder of Jews.<\/p>\n

To refer to Israel’s establishment\u2014and continued existence(!)\u2014as “Nakba,” or, catastrophe is one thing.<\/p>\n

To sanction murder is quite another.
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