Israeli Tolerance of Extremist Jews Blamed for Spurt in Violence

[Purveyor]

by Gwen Ackerman
August 3, 2015 — 10:23 AM EDT
Updated on August 3, 2015 — 10:00 PM EDT

A firebombing that killed a Palestinian toddler and critically injured his sleeping family. A stabbing rampage at a Gay Pride parade that claimed the life of a 16-year-old Israeli girl. The torching of a venerated Roman Catholic church.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the firebombing as terrorism and denounced the other assaults, vowing justice would be done. Critics say authorities fan Jewish extremism by not addressing it aggressively enough.

“Every society has extremists on its margins,” President Reuven Rivlin said Saturday at a Jerusalem protest over the mounting violence. “But today, we have to ask ourselves, what is the public atmosphere that allows extremists to walk in confidence in broad daylight?”

While the two deadly attacks within a matter of hours have shocked many Israelis, prompting thousands to join impromptu protests, assaults on minorities are not unprecedented. Rights groups have cataloged hundreds of incidents of Jewish civilian violence against Palestinians and their property over the past decade, including the firebombing of nine homes and a taxi.

Two Israelis were shot to death at a Tel Aviv gay center six years ago. Three were knifed at a pride parade in 2005 by the same man suspected in Thursday’s deadly assault, which also wounded five. Dozens of church institutions and mosques have been vandalized in Israel and the West Bank in recent years, clerics say, including the June attack on the Church of the Multiplication commemorating Jesus’s biblical feeding of the masses.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-03/israeli-tolerance-of-extremist-jews-blamed-for-spurt-in-violence

[villager]

1. This is Bibi's "base." What will he do now?

n/t

[6chars]

2. even some in Bibi's coalition and party are speaking out against extremists

for example, the article appears to rely on quotes from Rivlin, the President of Israel who is from Likud.

[villager]

3. I'm sure their rightwing is as practiced at dog whistles as ours

...and running from any responsibility for the energies and actions they've obviously called forth...

[6chars]

5. actually it's quite remarkable how their rightwing is speaking out

and even taking responsibility and action.

[villager]

7. "taking responsibility?"

We'll see.

[geek tragedy]

4. speaking out doesn't feed the bulldog.

it's very easy to speak out against burning a baby alive.

actually doing something about the incitement and the larger networks supporting price tag terrorism, not so easy when you've placed the price tag crowd's ideological patrons in cabinet jobs.

[6chars]

6. very true

do you like what they are saying?