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Channel 2 interview of Gary, an Eritrean man, at the scene where his friend Habtom Zerhom was killed by a mob of Israelis after a terror attack.

Eritrean man’s ‘lynch’ highlights failings of the Israeli press

The Israeli media shares some responsibility for the hysteria on the streets and the phenomenon of ‘accidental’ attacks against Jews, Palestinians, and now Eritreans. By Hagar Shezaf Habtom Zerhom, an Eritrean asylum seeker, was shot by security forces and then lynched by Israelis in Beer Sheva’s bus station after being mistakenly identified as a terrorist…

By +972 Magazine October 20, 2015

Jewish teens attack Palestinian in Jerusalem on Purim (Ch 10 screenshot)

Jewish teens attack Palestinians in two separate Purim incidents

Such attacks have become more common in recent years but media coverage has thinned. Two individual Arab-Palestinian men were assaulted by mobs of Jewish teens in Jerusalem last Thursday night. Both incidents involved victims who were set upon and beaten so severely that they had to be hospitalized. And in both cases the Israeli Hebrew…

By Lisa Goldman March 12, 2015

Why I demand the dismissal of Israel’s ambassador to Ireland

It’s one thing to have to deal with the racism and hatred prevalent here in Israel/Palestine. But it’s another when an imbecile I support with my tax money, who claims to represent me, spreads his venom overseas (and not for the first time – the deputy at the embassy said in the past that “Pro-Palestinian activists…

By Ami Kaufman December 17, 2012

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A 4-year-old Palestinian child in intensive care at West Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital on August 18, 2012, a day after he was seriously injured in a firebomb attack by Israeli settlers on the taxi in which he was travelling with his family on the road from Bethlehem to Hebron, in the West Bank. The child, seen here with his grandmother, is from Nahalin, a small village west of Bethlehem that, after losing 60% of its lands to the nearby Israeli settlements, comes under regular attacks by Israeli settlers. In the attack, which happened as the family was on the way to a breakfast at the mother’s family in the Al-Arrub Refugee Camp and which took place in an area under exclusive Israeli security control, two children, the mother and father and the driver were seriously injured. (photo: JC/Activestills.org)

A week in photos: August 14-21

A new regular feature from the Activestills photography collective. Each week, we will bring you a selection of our most compelling images from movements for political and social change throughout Palestine and Israel. Activestills is a collective of Israeli, international and Palestinian photographers, united by a conviction that photography is a vehicle for…

By Activestills August 22, 2012

"Dear Arab guy - We do not wish for you to get hurt, so keep away" (Lehava)

Poster calls on Arab men to keep out of Jerusalem, away from Jewish girls

Following the recent lynch-style attack on Palestinian youths in Jerusalem, racist extremists are starting a campaign calling on Arab men to keep out of popular Jerusalem hangouts and avoid dating Jewish girls – for their own good. The new racist poster, written in both Hebrew and Arabic by the extremist Kahana-style NGO “Lehava,” has been…

By Haggai Matar August 22, 2012

Mysh comic: ‘The health of the nation’

This comic by Mysh perfectly satirizes the sad and perverse state of affairs here, following the vicious mob attack on Palestinians in Jerusalem last Thursday night, in which dozens of Jewish teenagers were involved. There were also those who reportedly dissuaded paramedics from helping one of the critically injured victims, Jamal Julani, because “he is…

By Mairav Zonszein August 21, 2012

Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Wikimedia/CC BY SA 3.0)

What is the link between Eli Yishai and Jerusalem ‘lynch’?

Interior Minister Eli Yishai has said that he would make the lives of African refugees ‘so miserable that they would want to leave.’ The recent lynching and firebombing against Palestinians prove to me that it is statements like these that instigate violence within Israeli society against minorities. Interior Minister Eli Yishai has said (Hebrew) that he wants to…

By Yuval Ben-Ami August 20, 2012

Palestinian injured in firebomb attack in West Bank August 17 2012 (Activestills)

Attacks on Palestinians highlight history of lax enforcement on Jewish extremists

Recent violent attacks on Palestinians by Jewish extremists highlight the deficient law enforcement and weak penalties imposed on perpetrators of similar past attacks Two recent incidents have brought attention to the issue of attacks on Palestinian civilians by Jewish extremists. On Thursday, a firebomb was thrown at a Palestinian taxi in the West Bank, injuring…

By Roi Maor August 20, 2012

"Death to Arabs" graffiti (Lisa Goldman)

Palestinian youth beaten unconscious in attempted J’lem ‘lynch’

In the last 24 hours, two near-fatal attacks were committed against Palestinians, one a suspected terror attack, the other a suspected attempted lynch – both allegedly committed by Israeli Jews. Haaretz was the only website (both Hebrew and English) to put the suspected lynch as a top story, while all the other major news sites…

By Mairav Zonszein August 17, 2012