The Anti-Defamation League called on the Palestinian Authority to condemn the abuse of religious symbols at a weekend anti-Israel rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah. During the rally, which was attended by representatives of the Palestinian Authority, Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a donkey was draped with a Jewish prayer shawl and paraded through the crowd.
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