JERUSALEM – There’s a short video clip that’s been circulating on Israeli social media channels in recent days showing a massive crowd of jubilant young Israelis at a music festival singing along on repeat to “The Song of Peace.” The scene, using an anthem forever associated with assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and the peace […]
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Israeli President Isaac Herzog is backing senior Israel Defense Forces commanders in taking decisive action against violent settler attacks in the West Bank, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. His comments came a day before Israeli forces detained New York Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander along with 90 rabbis and activists accompanying […]
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Masked settlers attacked Palestinians attempting to harvest their olives in the West Bank on Friday, injuring a Washington Post photographer and several harvesters, amid a sharp rise in settler violence. Heidi Levine, the Washington Post photographer, described the attack to reporters from her hospital bed. “I got jumped and I saw in the very beginning […]
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Bret Stephens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist known as one of the paper’s most consistent defenders of Israel, used his Tuesday column to take direct aim at the country’s handling of settler violence in the West Bank — warning that unchecked attacks now pose a threat to Israel’s security and to Zionism itself. […]
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