Israeli beer festival at Muslim cemetery decried

Ramallah: Israel has approved plans to hold a beer festival on the grounds of a Muslim cemetery in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday and Thursday.

The Maamanallah cemetery is the most prominent historic Muslim cemetery in occpied Jerusalem, but has been turned into a park by Israeli authorities.

“The festival aims to humiliate Muslims and insult their culture,” said Palestinian activist Mazen Abu Qalbain.

“The festival has truly become a tradition ripe with vicious provocation.”

“How can Muslim accept Jews drinking alcohol and dancing at the gravesite that contains the remains of known figures of the early Islam,” he told Gulf News.

“Jerusalem is spacious and the festival can be held anywhere over the city, but the Israeli choice of this particular historic Muslim gravesite aims to send a clear message to the Muslims around the world,” he said.

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