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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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Before the fires are out, Israeli politicians blame the Arabs
Security officials and counter-terrorism experts warn against calling wildfires terrorism, but Israeli politicians and some media have no such qualms. How do you reach a conclusion before the investigation is even started? By Yael Marom As tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes, and as the flames were still burning across…
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November 25, 2016
A year since the Duma murders: Navigating justice and pain
A year after losing his parents and baby brother, six-year-old Ahmad Dawabshe returns to Duma for the first time. At court hearings for the accused murderers, settler youths taunt the remaining family members. A journey through an unimaginably painful year. “I know you spent a lot of time with the Dawabshe family in the hospital,” said…
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Samah Salaime
July 31, 2016
Amid right-wing attacks, suspected arson at B’Tselem offices
Headquarters of Israel’s oldest human rights organization sustain heavy damage. Spokesperson says if fire turns out to be arson, ‘it must be seen in the context of the wave of government incitement and smear campaigns against Israel’s human rights groups, and B’Tselem in particular.’ A fire broke out at Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem’s offices…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 11, 2016
An assault on civil rights in the name of equality
In response to ‘Jewish’ terrorism Israeli authorities are taking some of the worst tools used against Palestinians and applying them to everyone. Thus Israel-Palestine went from a place where half the population is denied basic rights to a place where anybody — Jew and Arab alike — can lose them at any time. The problem…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
August 3, 2015
‘Why did they burn a baby alive? What did he do?’
Hours after the terrorist attack that took the life of Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabshe, relatives and friends are still trying to make sense of what happened in the early hours of Friday morning. Text and photos by Oren Ziv / Activestills.org In the hours of the morning, the road leading from Nablus and the…
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Activestills
July 31, 2015
Palestinian baby burned to death in West Bank arson attack
Photos by Ahmad Al-Bazz, Oren Ziv / Activestills.org A one-and-a-half year old Palestinian baby was burned to death Friday morning in the West Bank village of Duma in an attack on his family’s home allegedly by Israeli settlers. According to reports, two masked men arrived at two homes in Duma, near Nablus. They spray painted the words…
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Activestills
July 31, 2015
When setting fire to a bilingual school is no longer ‘racist’
The three teens who set fire to the Jerusalem bilingual school in November have one less thing to worry about: according to the state, their actions are no longer considered racist. Nearly five months after Jewish extremists set fire to first-grade classrooms in Jerusalem’s Max Rayne Hand in Hand school, the prosecution has reached a…
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Orly Noy
April 18, 2015
‘Price tag’ settler argues in court that revenge isn’t a crime
You would think that sentencing a group of Israelis for setting fire to a Palestinian cafe is a positive development. But a closer look shows that the culture of minimizing the seriousness of price tag attacks is alive and strong. Were people’s lives and livelihoods not at stake, it would have been an almost sublime piece of…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
April 16, 2015
‘We will overcome’: Arson and mourning at Jerusalem’s bilingual school
The mixed Jewish-Arab school has been the target of racist attacks in the past, but for the parents, students and teachers of the ‘Hand in Hand’ school, this feels different. ‘This time, the fire was ignited inside our home.’ The timing couldn’t have been more “perfect”: while I was still at a demonstration against the…
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Orly Noy
November 30, 2014
West Bank mosque set ablaze in suspected settler attack
The olive harvest is historically a period when settler violence against Palestinians and their trees increase. The name of a local settlement from which two youths were arrested last week is spray painted onto the mosque’s wall. A West Bank mosque was set on fire and vandalized early Tuesday morning in what on the surface…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
October 14, 2014
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