Jit: Another instance of settler violence! Let’s think about this a bit.
As far as I can gather, the incident in the Arab town of Jit on August 15 is a case meriting unequivocal condemnation. It is different from the case of Givat Ronen the previous week, in which boys threw rocks at a car driving wildly in their streets out of fear of terrorist infiltration. I […]
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 […]
This is how a case against those pesky settlers is made
Ah! “Settler violence!” That dangerous phenomenon that must be quashed. Biden is holding back licences for selling 20,000 American-made rifles to Israel “on the charge that they would be distributed to ‘violent extremist’ settlers.” The British Foreign Secretary David Cameron announced that the UK is not admitting “extremist Israeli settlers” from entering the country. Where […]
Are Israeli English-language news sites supporting or undermining Israel?
How much balanced reporting is there on Israeli English-language mainstream news sites? Last week, the Jerusalem Post published an article with the following title and snippet: Israeli violence against Palestinians, IDF skyrockets in West Bank Despite the high number of attacks, only 113 arrests were made and 101 investigations were opened. There were only 28 […]
Hilltop Youth: True Moral Bankruptcy in Israel
Meretz Party MK Mossi Raz, among others, is on a campaign (rampage?) to demonize all the Jews living in Judea-Samaria. At the beginning of the month, he posted a Tweet that reads: The state’s answer to the petition submitted by Homesh according to which there is no date for evacuating the yeshiva is another submission […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Preparations for a Bloody Shabbat . . . Foiled!
Basel Adra, a very prolific B’Tselem “journalist” and activist bemoaned the fact that yesterday the IDF entered his village, a-Tuwani, and searched all the houses: This morning the occupation forces stormed My village Tuwani closed all the entrance. And started searching the houses. Damaged the things in their and stop me and another activists from […]