Israeli court indicts radical Islamic leader on charges of racism, incitement to violence

JERUSALEM – An Israeli court on Tuesday indicted an Israeli Muslim leader on charges of racism and incitement to violence over a 2007 speech in which he allegedly called for a new Palestinian uprising to stop Israeli renovation near a disputed holy site.

Sheik Raed Salah, leader of a radical branch of Israel's Islamic Movement, led violent protests against work adjacent to the hilltop, where the Al Aqsa Mosque compound was built over the ruins of the biblical Jewish temples.

At a rally in east Jerusalem last February, Salah's followers threw rocks and bottles at police, who responded with stun grenades.

A copy of the indictment obtained by The Associated Press quoted Salah, an Israeli citizen, as saying then that “the streets of Jerusalem will be cleansed from the blood of the innocents, killed by the Israeli soldiers who occupy the blessed Al Aqsa Mosque.”

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