Actually Jewish and Moslem prohibitions regarding swine differ. Moslems aren't permitted to touch pigs, live or dead, or any part of pigs, such a pig leather or pig bristles. Jews are not permitted to eat pigs, and that is all; Jews may wear pig leather and presumably keep pigs as pets (I'd name mine Yasser) and use pig bristle brushes (but I suspect the brushes would be for paint or shoeshines, not toothbrushes) and there is rabbinic approval of using pig heart valves for transplants to humans.
If it were up to me, I'd have every doorknob in Israel upholstered in pig leather as a subtle hint.
During the British Mandate the British (as the Americans had done in the Philippines a half century earlier) tried to discourage Moslem guerrilla action by stopping the Moslem funerals and putting a dead pig or a pig's hide into the coffin with the body. It appears that had little effect, the Moslems at least felt that once a Moslem is dead his soul won't be punished for whatever his corpse comes in contact with. About ten years an Israeli chemist (who was also a rabbi) came up with a variation of the dumdum bullet, with a drop or two of pig's blood in the point, and suggested these bullets be used with lots of publicity against Arabs. On the other hand, the Palestinians ridiculed the idea, saying their enemies cannot influence their admission to paradise.
