Settlers desecrated and torched a mosque on Friday, January 24, in the village of Beit Safafa, southwest of Jerusalem. A group of Jewish settlers clandestinely entered the village before dawn, sprayed racist slogans on the walls of the Al-Badriya Mosque and then set fire to the building, partially damaging it. The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs…
Israel’s newly installed far-right defense minister, MK Naftali Bennett, announced on Sunday, December 1, his approval for the planning of a new settlement in the flashpoint Palestinian West Bank city of Hebron. The decision was quickly praised by the right and condemned by Hadash, Israeli peace movements and Palestinians. The settlement in Hebron is now made…
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Tires of 40 cars were slashed and racist graffiti was sprayed on buses in the Arab town of Jaljulia northeast of Tel Aviv, on Thursday night, November 28. Police opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the vandalism. “This is a very serious incident. These are racists who come to Arab communities to vandalize our…
The three Palestinian Arabic dailies focused in yesterday’s Sunday issue on a surge in attacks by Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank, against vulnerable Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season. The reports said that three farmers sustained various injuries on Saturday, October 19, when settlers attacked them while they were harvesting olives in…
Masked men from the settlement of Yitzhar in the Occupied Palestinian Territories wielding metal rods and stones attacked volunteers from Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR), a human rights organization based in Israel, while they were picking olives alongside Palestinian farmers in the West Bank village of Burin on Wednesday, October 16. According to a spokesperson for…
Residents of the West Bank Palestinian town of Yatma, 15km south of Nablus, reported on Tuesday, August 13, an apparent “price tag” hate crime in which in tires of several cars were punctured and the slogan “Jews don’t remain silent” followed by a Star of David was spray-painted on a building during the course of…
The number of so-called “Price Tag” attacks targeting Palestinians in the West Bank rose dramatically last year, according to a Channel 12 news report broadcast on Wednesday, July 10. Security officials informed Channel 12 News that during 2018, 205 such attacks took place, compared to 79 in 2017 and 57 in 2016. “Price tag” incidents…
Arab students affiliated with Hadash who study at Tel Aviv University in Ramat Aviv reported over the weekend that settlers belonging to a “Price Tag” group spray-painted racist graffiti outside student dormitories at the institute of higher learning. The Hadash students’ organization told journalists that settlers broke into a compound of dormitories and graffitied walls…
The following op-ed by Yehuda Shaul was published last month by the British newspaper The Guardian. Shaul was a commander in the Israeli military during the Second Intifada and is a founding member of Breaking the Silence. Here in Jerusalem, we await publication of Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century,” which is expected to be…
405 Palestinians were injured by Israeli military forces and settlers in multiple clashes across the occupied West Bank over a two week period in April, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA). The humanitarian agency reported that the latest figures bring the number of Palestinian injuries since the…