""Go to hell!" Arab printing house that refused to print flyer will compensate Temple Mount activist

December 27, 2021   

The Small Claims Court in Nazareth ruled that a printing house in Umm al-Fahm will compensate an activist in the 'Returners to the Mount' movement, working to liberate the Temple Mount, with approximately 3,500 shekels for refusing to print informational materials for him under the movement's logo. The owner of the printing house will also pay 500 shekels in court costs. According to a report in Israel Hayom, the activist contacted the owner of the printing house in Umm al-Fahm and requested a price quote for printing thousands of flyers. The content of the flyer was not included in the request, but it was signed with the logo of the 'Returners to the Mount' movement. The activist even signed the email with his name - 'Yair, Returners to the Mount Movement'. In response, the owner of the printing house wrote to him: "What a mountain and what a watermelon, this is our Al-Aqsa Mosque, belonging to the Muslims - go to hell!" Since the owners of the place refused to do the work, the activist decided to sue them for discrimination, and sued the court for 33,880 shekels, claiming that his honor and art were trampled on and that he was unlawfully discriminated against. The court partially accepted the plaintiff's claim, with the judge noting that the activist requested price quotes from three printing houses, while he claims that he believed he would receive a cheaper price in the Arab sector than in the printing houses in Jerusalem. However, the judge greatly reduced the compensation he would receive and even commented that the activist could have printed the material at any other printing house and that the request to receive the service in Umm al-Fahm was based on bad faith.