Palestinian incitement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony marking 50 years of the Israeli settlement movement, Gush Etzion, West Bank, September 27, 2017. (Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Netanyahu vows to never remove settlements. Why won’t the world believe him?

It’s as if the entire international community administered itself a potent dose of willful suspension of disbelief, enabling its leaders to ignore Bibi’s declarations that he will never take the requisite steps for peace — that he will do everything in his power to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. For years, decades actually, the world…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man September 28, 2017

A Palestinian woman works at the Al Jazeera TV station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 14, 2009. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Forget Al Jazeera — Bibi should halt his own government’s incitement

Netanyahu is calling to shut down Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau, accusing the station of incitement to violence amid tensions over the Temple Mount. Has he heard what his own ministers have been saying recently? Palestinian incitement has long been Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scapegoat for the lack of progress in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For him, Palestinian…

By Edo Konrad July 27, 2017

Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party holds a picture of Adbel-Rahman Shaloudi, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem who drove his car into a train station and killed a woman and an infant, Ocotber 27, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel has an incitement problem

Israeli politicians and pundits make sure to talk about Palestinian incitement at every opportunity. Rarely do we ever hear about Israeli incitement that denies both Palestinian history and present reality. By Yoni Mendel In Israeli public discourse, the phrase “Palestinian incitement” makes an appearance time and again. One can hear it in the news by members…

By +972 Magazine March 12, 2017

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A Palestinian youth throws stones during clashes with the Israeli army in Bethlehem, West Bank, December 4, 2015. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

The source of Palestinian incitement

Israelis are right, there is dangerous incitement among Palestinians. Here’s what they can do to fight it. The controversy over the Hebron shooter is the gift that keeps on giving. By Saturday, we have already stood to learn that the star of last week’s show will not be charged with murder, that a large part…

By Rami Younis April 2, 2016

Jewish Home party chairman Naftali Bennett (Photo by Activestills.org)

Naftali Bennett’s annexation plan: A report card

Before he was Minister of the Economy, Naftali Bennett was a Knesset hopeful whose plan to annex the majority of the West Bank shook the political establishment. Two years later, it’s worth seeing just how much he has gotten done. By Joel Braunold When Naftali Bennett first entered the coalition, I wrote of his plan…

By +972 Magazine December 25, 2014

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech to released Palestinian prisoners, at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 14. (Activestills.org)

Palestinian incitement: Genuine problem or right-wing dream?

It’s not uncommon to hear Israeli leaders accuse the Palestinian Authority and its media outlets of inciting to violence against Israelis and Jews. But is it actually true? A closer examination of the evidence reveals that the habitual blaming of the Palestinian Authority is not only mostly unfounded, it is the product of a direct…

By Haokets February 22, 2014

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Palestinian textbook case closed, but more trumped-up Israeli charges expected

This week’s publication of a U.S.-funded study cleared the Palestinians of charges that their schoolbooks ‘demonize’ Israel. This was not, however, the first hoop they’ve been made to jump through, and it won’t be the last. The Israeli and U.S. Jewish establishment reaction to the terrible news that the Palestinians don’t demonize Jews in their…

By Larry Derfner February 7, 2013