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Education Ministry still blaming Arab citizens for ‘arson intifada’
By now it is clear to all that the fires that erupted in Israel late last year were not the result of nationalistic arson. So why does the Education Ministry claim otherwise? By John Brown* This past November, Israel’s Education Ministry published a booklet on the fires that erupted in Israel late last year. The…
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January 17, 2017
One week later: Where is the evidence of an ‘arson intifada?’
The police has yet to declare a single wildfire an act of terrorism, the commissioner says arson is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and many cases of suspected terrorism turned out to be nothing more than negligence. This, of course, does not bother Israel’s leaders or media. Now that the rain has started pouring, bringing an end to…
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Haggai Matar
December 2, 2016
If you’re Palestinian in Israel, satire can land you in jail
Anas Abudaabes was arrested last week for publishing a satirical Facebook post criticizing Arabs who celebrated the wildfires raging across Israel. Three separate judges claimed he was inciting to violence. By John Brown* The Be’er Sheva District Court rejected an appeal on the detention of Bedouin journalist Anas Abudaabes on Sunday, after he was arrested last…
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November 27, 2016
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Palestinian family targeted by arson in ‘revenge’ for murder of Israeli
A 16-year-old Palestinian stabs a 19-year-old Israeli soldier to death in his sleep. That night, a completely unconnected Palestinian family’s home is set alight while they sleep, in revenge for the murder. A Palestinian home in the West Bank village Sinjil was firebombed early Thursday morning in an apparent revenge attack for the murder of…
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Mairav Zonszein
November 14, 2013
Suspect in arson of asylum seeker homes reaches plea deal with no jail time
Haim Mula, a resident of the Shapira neighborhood in south Tel Aviv who was arrested last April in connection with the nighttime arson attack of several African asylum seeker homes and one kindergarten in his neighborhood, has signed a plea bargain that exempts him from jail time. Mula, 20, was originally accused of committing the…
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Haggai Matar
December 24, 2012
African couple hospitalized after apparent arson attack
The apartment of an Eritrean couple in Jerusalem went up in flames last night, in what looks like another arson attack. Haaretz reports that at around 3 a.m., the man and the woman, who is seven months pregnant, awoke and tried to stamp out the fire with their feet. There are times when events are…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
July 12, 2012
Major Negev NGO offices burned down over the weekend
Security cameras captured a masked assailant set fire to the offices of one of the most important NGOs in the Negev, hours before a major protest for the rights of the Bedouins. The Beer Sheva offices of the Arab-Jewish Centre for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation (AJEEC), were gutted by fire over the weekend, just hours…
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Dimi Reider
December 12, 2011
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