Givat Ronen Attack: Did it happen as reported?

On Friday, 9 August, there was a serious incident in Givat Ronen, a hilltop outpost near the ancient city of Shechem, a city that the Arabs call Nablus (the Romans rebuilt it and called it Neopolis and Arabic has no “p”). Mirroring the existence of different names in Arabic and Hebrew for places in the […]

When 250 Trees are Jewish, Nobody Cares if they are Uprooted

On the 17th of February a call went out on the Sinjel Municipality Facebook page urging the Palestinian Arabs to come out for an undisclosed activity seeking to push Jews off the land. A rough Google translation of the post reads: Your presence is a pure national duty.. A public invitation.. We call on landowners […]

Rescuers Without Borders — What Does a Month in Judea-Samaria Look Like?

In addition to their rescue work around the world, the NGO, Rescuers Without Borders (SSF – Sauveteurs Sans Frontiers) keeps track of Arab terrorism against Jews in Judea-Samaria.They attest to having documentary real-time proof for each incident, including date, time, and location. Here is their report for the month of January. I am putting up […]

Israel’s Defence Minister in Cahoots with Judea-Samaria Real Estate Scam

Israel’s Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, is cooperating with the biggest real estate scam this country has ever seen. He does this in two ways: first, by taking advantage of the current make-up of the coalition government and making moves to legalize a number of illegal Arab outposts in Judea-Samaria, the heartland of the ancient Land […]

Burin: Who is Harassing Whom?

Following an incident at Burin, at a special Law Committee session dealing with so-called “settler violence,” Rabbis for Human Rights Executive Director Avi Dabush was honoured with having had the closing remark in the press release summarizing the session: Givat Ronen is known as a place that harasses Palestinians.. . . We will return to […]

El-Mufaqara, Avigayil, and Havat Maon: Where did my anger get me?

This is a story borne out of anger. I was angry at the apparent one-sidedness of the reporting at what happened at el-Mufaqara and the way it seemed everyone I knew accepted the media reports as unadulterated truth. It is a story of how I found a crack in the wall and did not give […]

B’Tselem Confirms that Checkpoints in Judea and Samaria Not so Bad

Those who protest against the Israeli so-called ‘occupation’ always bring up the subject of prevention of freedom of movement in the Palestinian Authority (PA). For example, Machsom Watch, an organization that reports on the supposedly inhumane behaviour on the part of soldiers manning the checkpoints makes the claim that: Almost every time a Palestinian steps […]

60 Minutes On The Steps Outside Of Kiryat Arba

I went to Kiryat Arba for the Passover Seder this year and I want to tell you something about my visit. Kiryat Arba is a town of about 8000 Jews, founded in 1968, just one year after Judea and Samaria were liberated from twenty years of Jordanian occupation. It is on the outskirts of Hebron, […]