REPORT<\/a>: Amman, Jordan – A group of Israeli Hassidim are being accused of carrying out a \u201critual Talmudic dance\u201d on Tuesday morning while waiting to board their plane in Queen Alia International Airport in Amman.
\nWhat was in fact a traditional Jewish circle dance, accompanied by guitar music and Hebrew singing, has morphed into a social media controversy in Jordan, and was considered so offensive to Jordanians that it had to be denounced in the Jordanian parliament.
\nIn the viral video, a group of eight men, identifiable as Breslev Hassidim by their attire, are singing a Hebrew song that celebrates marriage. However, some Jordanian media has misread the dance as a \u201critual Talmudic dance\u201d meant as a provocation.
\nOne Jordanian tweeter, who according to his Twitter profile is a doctor in the Health Ministry, wrote that: \u201cHe who was sitting in the airport and saw the dance and wasn\u2019t provoked is a pig and more piglike then the Jews themselves.\u201d
\nThe editor- in-chief of the Hamas media outlet Siraj Media tweeted that the \u201cairport dance\u201d\u2014the hashtag being used on social media in Arabic\u2014\u201cisn\u2019t the problem, but rather the acceptance of Israel as a reality\u201d is the issue.
\nOne woman jokingly wrote \u201cA popular call to dance the Dabkeh at OIAA.\u201d (Dabkeh is a traditional Middle Eastern circle.)
\nOn Tuesday, according to The Jordanian Times, Jordanian MP\u2019s discussed the \u201critual dance\u201d video during a Lower House session. MPs Yihya Saud, Bassam Btoush and Tarek Khoury reportedly criticized Amman\u2019s \u201cinaction\u201d over the \u201cprovocative\u201d dance performed by \u201cZionist Israelis\u201d at the airport. The MPs argued that Jordanians would never be allowed to do such an act in Israel. <\/p>\n