The sermon came a week after three men of um al-Fahm in Israel fired on the front of the Temple Mount, killing two policemen: Haiel Sitawe and Kamil Shnaan.
After the attack, Israel first closed the complex and then installed steel detectors on the site, a resolution that led Palestinians to organize large demonstrations abroad, expanding already high tensions.
Salah gave a similar speech at the symbolic funeral of the 3 gunmen in um al Fahm, and a supposed dagger from the city who arrested in Tel Aviv a few days later said he had been encouraged by Salah’s words, according to the condemnation.
Salah had argued in his defence that his prospects were devout reviews rooted in the Koran and constituted a direct appeal to violence.
“It’s all a lie, ” he said after his conviction, according to the Daily Haaretz.”Everything he said [by the court] is far from the truth.I don’t know where they got these things they assigned to me.He wrote lies about me and the court presented them as facts.
The appellate judges rejected Salah’s statement that the attack was not terror, calling it “outrageous” and pointing out that the use of the word “martyr,” or shahid, supported the claim that it was terror.
They also rejected the concept that the sentence violated freedom of expression, saying that it did not aggravate the acts of violence, that is, through a leader of the network.
“The leader knows that the public turns to him and learns from his words, as from his silence, about supporting criminals.And so he has the responsibility,” they wrote in the verdict.
The declaration that the organization of the northern branch of Salah should not be prohibited was rejected by the court for not being within its jurisdiction.