pogroms

A young Palestinian man looks through the broken window of his house after an attack by Israeli settlers the previous night in the village of At-Tuwani, Masafer Yatta, southern occupied West Bank, July 19, 2026. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

What an Israeli settler pogrom feels like

For the first time in my life, I found myself completely helpless. My car was engulfed in flames, but all that mattered to me was my family's survival.

By Mohammad Hesham Huraini July 27, 2026

Israeli forces stand guard as Palestinians pass through the Qalandia checkpoint on their way to attend the first Friday prayers of Ramadan at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, February 20, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel warns of a Ramadan escalation — while doing everything to provoke one

Eroding the status quo at Al-Aqsa, backing settler pogroms, ignoring violent crime: If there is an eruption, it will have been engineered by Israel alone.

By Baker Zoubi February 24, 2026

Ahmad Mousa Al-Mash’ala next to a van torched by Israeli settlers during an arson attack in the West Bank village of Jaba, November 18, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

‘The fire devoured everything’: Israeli settlers unleash wave of arson attacks

At least five West Bank villages have been targeted as settlers lit Palestinian homes, cars, and a mosque ablaze, while the army delayed emergency vehicles.

By Basel Adra November 18, 2025

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The lives and bodies forever scarred by Israeli state-backed settler violence

Attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank have surged to record levels, with Israeli settlers and soldiers operating in near-total symbiosis. Victims of shootings, beatings, and stonings reveal their ordeals.

By Oren Ziv November 14, 2025

Ibrahim Sidda, August 16, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Israeli condemnations ring hollow after settler pogrom in Jit

Palestinians describe the latest in a surge of settler rampages in the West Bank, and demand justice for Rashid Sidda as his murderers roam free.

By Oren Ziv August 19, 2024

Hussein Dawabsheh, head of the Duma town council, inside a burned house in the town, occupied West Bank, April 14, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

‘The soldiers opened the way for the settlers’: Pogroms surge across West Bank

Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.

By Oren Ziv April 18, 2024

A field burns amid a series of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, near the village of Qusra, June 22, 2023. (Flash90)

Why settler pogroms are now sweeping the West Bank

Frustrated at the military's pushback to their pogroms, settlers will continue upholding Jewish supremacy by any means necessary.

By Menachem Klein June 26, 2023

Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, head of the European Union’s mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, visits Huwara in the occupied West Bank following the settler pogrom in the town earlier in the week, March 3, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

How not to show solidarity with the families of Huwara

Thousands donated to a crowdfunder set up by an Israeli politician. But its militaristic framing and implementation are likely to do more harm than good.

By Orly Noy March 3, 2023

Israeli settlers burn Palestinian homes, vehicles, and businesses during a rampage in the West Bank town of Huwara, Feb. 26, 2023. (Activestills)

Huwara reels after night of settler terror under army’s watch

Palestinians in the West Bank town were left to deal with burned-out buildings and cars after hundreds of settlers ran riot while soldiers protected them.

By Oren Ziv February 27, 2023

Jewish victims of the Kishinev pogrom, 1903.

Arming Jews hasn’t saved us in the past. Why would it now?

The massacre at the Pittsburgh synagogue last weekend has led many to return to an age-old question: should Jews be arming themselves in the face of violent anti-Semitism? By Roni Masel It didn’t take long for President Donald Trump to offer his two cents on the cause for the shooting at Tree of Life Congregation last Saturday, which left…

By +972 Magazine October 31, 2018

Israeli artist Yoram Ra'anan stands in what remains of his studio, which burned down completely in an overnight fire in Beit Meir, outside of Jerusalem, November 25, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel’s culture minister likens wildfires to anti-Jewish pogroms

Miri Regev says current wildfires tearing through are simply a continuation of the massacres committed against Jews in the 20th century. Miri Regev is the latest leader to join the chorus of Israeli government ministers inciting against the country’s Palestinian citizens over the past week, fueling allegations that Palestinians have been behind the hundreds of wildfires tearing…

By Edo Konrad November 27, 2016

Asylum seeker at the site of fire bomb attack in south Tel Aviv (Activestills)

Community shaken after night of arson attacks on African refugees

Four houses and one kindergarten in south Tel Aviv, all serving the African asylum seeker community, were hit within the same hour by Molotov cocktails. Testimonies from asylum seekers and Israeli neighbors indicate a coordinated pogrom. “Somebody is trying to get rid of these damn Sudanese,” said an Israeli resident of Shapira neighborhood in south…

By Haggai Matar April 26, 2012

Tel Aviv mayor’s Saudi option: Off with their hands!

The memorial on the site of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in Tel Aviv was vandalised yesterday (not “desecrated,” pray), by Shvuel Schijveschuurder, who had lost both his parents and three of his siblings in the Sbarro pizza place bombing in 2001. The young man said he was driven to pour paint on the memorial and spray-write a…

By Dimi Reider October 14, 2011