Jewish Extremism

Israel cannot defeat extremism by embracing it - opinion

Israel’s Jewish identity should never be an excuse to deny equality to Arab citizens. And equality for Arab citizens should not require abandoning the Jewish national character of the state.

|ByHALLEL SILVERMAN
Then-head of the National Union party MK Betzalel Smotrich and attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir attend Otzma Yehudit party's election campaign event in Bat Yam on April 06, 2019.
Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir meets with officers of the Central Command during a tour of the West Bank.

IDF deploys new Border Police company as Jewish extremist violence rises in West Bank

A new Border Police company will tackle nationalist violence in the West Bank as Defense Minister Israel Katz demands stronger police enforcement.

|ByAMIR BOHBOT, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Masked extremist Jewish settlers clash with Palestinians during the annual olive harvest in the village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah in the West Bank, where several people, including American photojournalist Heidi Levine, were injured in an attack by Israeli settlers, October 16, 2026.

US officials visit Palestinian village after settler attacks on diplomats

US diplomats visited a Palestinian Christian town after settler attacks on European diplomats, as violence surged across the West Bank.

|ByREUTERS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a hearing in his corruption trial at the Jerusalem District Court, October 11, 2026.

Netanyahu warns of 'campaign to smear Israel' after European diplomats attacked in West Bank

"We urge caution before drawing conclusions from today's reports that European diplomats were attacked by masked Israelis," the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN

Jewish extremism

The big problem – one of Israel’s biggest – is the death grip in which the state holds the practice of Judaism.

DECEMBER 17, 2016ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Praying at the Western Wall

Dans la peau d’Yigal Amir

A travers l’analyse des motivations de l’assassin d’Yitzhak Rabin, Israël a longtemps cherché à comprendre comment il avait pu engendrer un tel fils

NOVEMBER 13, 2016ByNATAN ODENHEIMER
Yigal Amir, lors de la reconstitution de la scène du crime

Have documents in the Duma arson case vanished in a cover-up?

Prosecution calls them ‘technical’ and unimportant.

NOVEMBER 3, 2016ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
A man looks out of a house badly damaged by a firebomb attack by suspected Jewish extremists in the Palestinian village of Duma in the West Bank, July 31, 2015

Female member of extremist group Lehava indicted on weapons charges

Lehava propagates the racist ideology of the late Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane, who was assassinated in New York City in 1990.

AUGUST 16, 2016ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
Sparring: Members of the Lehava movement protest. A sign reads, ‘Father, where is my mother?’

Jewish community must make clear: Hateful extremism will not be tolerated

JUNE 21, 2016ByNOA FLEISCHACKER
The late rabbi Meir Kahane, pictured here on a poster.

Activists indicted for attacks on police demolishing West Bank outpost

Prosecutors close file on Netanel Furkowitz, held over Duma deaths.

JUNE 20, 2016ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Israeli soldiers detain Jewish settlers during clashes with Palestinians near the West Bank village of Deir Jarir, near Ramallah

Media Comment: When the ‘fringe’ becomes mainstream

Media Comment: When the ‘fringe’ becomes mainstream.

JUNE 8, 2016ByYISRAEL MEDAD, ELI POLLAK
Newspaper (illustrative).

ANALYSIS: Administrative detention is not the same for Jewish and Palestinian terrorists

How one answers the "why" of the disparate application of administrative detention for Jews and Palestinians depends on one’s political outlook.

MAY 19, 2016ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Meir Ettinger attends a remand hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.

Suspected Jewish terror cell members indicted for crimes against Palestinians

Purpose of cell was to “spread fear and panic among Palestinians”

APRIL 25, 2016ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, YAAKOV LAPPIN
An indictment hearing was held at the Lod District Court for memebers of a suspected Jewish terror cell, April 25, 2016

Shin Bet says it broke up Jewish terrorism cell

Members of cell allegedly tried to torch Palestinian home with family inside.

APRIL 20, 2016ByYAAKOV LAPPIN, YONAH JEREMY BOB
'Price tag' attack