"Rabbis issue ruling allowing Jews to raise pigs to destroy Arab crops" - Arab media

Last week, for the umpteenth time, Palestinian Arabs repeated the ludicrous claim that Jewish settlers are releasing wild pigs - from trucks - in order to destroy Arab crops.

It is difficult to raise wild boars, but all those hard years of effort are worth it when you release them that one time, hoping that they'll eat some Arab grain and terrorize some Arab kids!

In addition, Algerian newspaper Akhbar El Youm says that rabbis in Israel issued a ruling that Jews are allowed to raise wild pigs in order to be able to deliberately release them to damage Palestinian Arab crops.

They quote self-styled expert on Jewish affairs Dr. Saleh Naamy, who tweeted this "fact" without mentioning the name of the rabbis who supposedly made this ruling.

Naamy is a lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza.

It turns out that Naamy made the same charge in an article published in Al Jazeera in 2009 - with an equal lack of sources.

Again showing how much that esteemed newspaper cares about facts.

I tweeted Dr. Naamy to ask who gave these rulings. His answer was
Rabbi Dov Lior of Kiryat Arba, Rabbi Zalman Melamed, "Yitzchok Levanon"  as well as "others."

I asked him for links to these "fatwas" but he didn't respond.

If any rabbis would have ever said anything close to this, of course, Haaretz and +972 would be mentioning it every day. Their standards are slightly better than Al Jazeera.

(h/t Ibn Boutros)