Finally! Settlers film one instance Showing What they have been up against.
On Wednesday 15 December, a video was released showing Arabs angrily pulling up young olive trees next to the Jewish community of Avigayil in Judea-Samaria. It was unique in having been one of the few instances of Arab harassment against Jews that was caught on film. פלסטינים עוקרים עצי זית ששתלו תושבי היישוב אביגיל. באור […]
Susiya Playground: Debunking a Fake News Report about Settler “Violence”
While this article was originally published in United with Israel on 11 November 2021, it remains relevant as the “Susiya playground attack” is still being brought up by anti-Israeli propagandists as if settlers really did attack kids in a playground. Here you have the more complete story of what happened and you can raise this […]
The Only Way to Respond to Gantz Inviting Abbas to His Home
It looks like Israel’s very own Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, is besties with Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas (aka abu Mazen). And, as besties, the esteemed abu Mazen visited with his friend, Gantz, at Gantz’s home last night in Rosh Ha’ayin, Israel. This is certainly a step up from the meetings with Gantz and later […]
B’Tselem and the Great Return March — Waning Influence?
The anti-Israel Israeli NGO, B’Tselem, has a new Facebook campaign in their continuing efforts to delegitimize Israel, this time concerning a report on the “Great Return March”. Are they achieving their goal? A look at the comments under each post illustrates that the organization may have lost its lustre in the eyes of the public […]
Dear South Hebron Hills Watch: Thank-you
Dear South Hebron Hills Watch: Without help, the naive Facebook user may not understand how a particular post you uploaded to Facebook actually supports the opposite of what you intended. I appreciate the wonderful opportunity you have afforded me to provide a real learning experience. After all, you claim to be “a group of American […]
A Jew, An Arab and A Druze. Not a Joke. A True Story.
Sometimes we come across unexpected pearls when doing field research for an article. During an interview with a resident of Avigayil, a community in the South Hebron Hills in Judea-Samaria, I was shown a short piece written last year by Benjamin Bodenhaymer, the security coordinator for Avigayil. He goes by the nickname, Budi. I wanted […]
What Does the NYC Muslim Center have that the Ibrahimi Mosque Doesn’t?
Is it possible that Muslims care more about their co-religionists in NYC than those in Hebron? Is it possible that they care more about their mosque in NYC than about the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron? Or is it just that they hate Jews more? Well, as a reader pointed out to me, we cannot say […]
“Settler Violence”: SayThis not That
Important questions regarding the currently fashionable trial-by-social-and-mainstream-media are raised with the outcome of the American Kyle Rittenhouse case: the 18-year-old was found not guilty of the serious charges against him in spite of the media character assassination committed against him for the year before the verdict came down (whether or not you agree with the […]
The Israeli “Rittenhouse” Case
On 23 November, the Knesset held a meeting to discuss how to deal with what can, perhaps, be a kind of Israeli “Kyle Rittenhouse” case. The Israeli case involves a suspect who has been tried and found guilty in all the social and conventional media sites without trial in a court of law. Given the […]
Firing Zone 918 and why the Increased Violence in South Hebron Hills NOW?
Not only is the news replete with an intensity and frequency of violence in the South Hebron Hills region that has not been seen for a long time, but all of it is being blamed on the settlers. Gantz has joined the left-leaning media in the blame-game, seemingly accepting news reports without even calling for […]