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Look. I’m a diaspora Jew. I don’t live in Israel. I have no family in Israel. I don’t contribute money to Israel. But when the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization says that the Western Wall, the most sacred edifice in all of Judaism, is nothing but a hitching post, how, exactly, am I supposed to believe that the UN gives a half a damn about Jews or our history when they are actively trying to erase it? This isn’t an anti-Israel resolution, it’s an anti-Jew resolution.

I didn’t see that language (hitching post) used anywhere. And the issues surrounding the Western Wall have to do with the displacement of Muslim families that live in the area. Your faith doesn’t trump the right of others to live in their homes.

Do you want an article with the hitching post language? Here.

And erasing Jewish history is antisemitism no matter who lives there. Take your condescension and antisemitism elsewhere. You clearly understand nothing about Jewish history or identity. You do, however, feel somehow entitled to speak over those who do have that knowledge and identity so you can get high on the ecstasy of sanctimony. Well, you’re not getting a free pass. Not this time.

Okay, so from that and some research elsewhere I see that in Muslim tradition the wall is holy as well, due to the idea that Mohammed (pbuh) hitched his horse Buraq to a place on the wall, where a mosque now stands. The resolution that UNESCO passed states that Muslims should have a right to worship at the Western Wall, too, and criticizes Israel for not allowing this.

Do you think Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to worship at the Western Wall?

The Western Wall and the Al Aqsa Mosque are two separate structues in two separate places adjacent to each other. Praying at one does not preclude praying at the other. Acknowledging the Jewish origins of the Wall is simple acknowledgment of historical fact. The Wall predates Islam by 700 years. It was part of the Second Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Stop talking. You’re embarrassing yourself.