Israel embassy’s post on Palestine ‘unacceptable’, risks undermining harmony in S’pore: Shanmugam

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The post claimed that Israel was mentioned 43 times in the Quran, that Palestine was not even mentioned once, and that there was archaeological evidence that the Jewish people were the indigenous people of the land.

 there is a vibrant Jewish community here, and that such posts can inflame tensions, putting the Jewish community at risk if anger from the online post spills over into the physical realm.

But where it affects the safety and security of people in Singapore, the peace and harmony that we enjoy, we do, and we will, intervene

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