The Al-Aqsa Mosque is Islam’s 3rd-holiest site, where Muslims believe Mohammed ascended to heaven. It’s also built on top of Judaism’s FIRST holiest site, intentionally, because that is what Arab colonizers did to show their might.
The two Jewish temples, including (for our Christian friends) the one Jesus attended in the Christian Bible, stood where this mosque now does. Anti-Israel countries and much of the Arab world deny that a Jewish temple ever stood here, and Jews are not allowed on the Temple Mount, our holiest site. The site, in the middle of Jerusalem, is actually controlled by Jordan—not Israel, as most anti-Israel propagandists claim.
