Jewish Extremism

Hijacking history: How messianic extremists are weaponizing Israeli archaeology - opinion

Right-wing extremists have spent decades perfecting the use of archaeology to promote their messianic ideology and sabotage diplomatic efforts.

View of a graffiti sprayed by unknown attackers, ancient archeological site of Sebastia, near the West Bank city of Nablus, November 30, 2024.
An Israeli settler argues with a Palestinian farmer, during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, October 29, 2025.

Israeli society must reclaim the Torah’s moral core - opinion

NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir leads Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset, on Monday.

Do Ben-Gvir’s flotilla follies make him Israel’s anti-Zionist of the year? - opinion

‘We were taught to love each other, not to hate. Christians are a peaceful community,’ says Naji Mansour, owner of Mansour Money Change in the Old City. PremiumPremium

'I refuse to hide my cross': Jerusalem's Christians describe a climate of fear


Right from wrong: Soldiering on through tears

The soldier is now serving as a symbol for all sides of the dilemma that our boys and girls must face as soon as they don the uniform.

IDF soldier who shot a neutralized Palestinian terrorist in Hebron being led into court, March 29, 2016

How widespread is the terrorist element among religious Jewish youth?

Leaders of the religious Zionist world say the price tag/hilltop youth phenomenon is a rebellion against their theology.

Meir Ettinger attends a remand hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.

Defense Ministry extends administrative of ultra-nationalist Meir Ettinger

Ettinger and Evyatar Slonim, two Jewish settler activists currently in administrative detention have been hunger striking recently to protest their treatment.

Meir Ettinger attends a remand hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.

Does Jewish law permit torture to elicit criminal confessions?

THE PROSPECTS of the Jewish state employing torture undoubtedly jolt any student of Jewish history who lacks knowledge of the tactics used by gentiles throughout two millennia of exile.

Man handcuffed

Comment: Wife of late Meir Kahane addresses hunger-striking grandson's administrative detention

"An administrative detention order deprives a person of his basic rights," Libby Kahane argues.

Meir Ettinger attends a remand hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.

A master of reinforcing fear and loathing

From the outset, supporters of the extremists among the settlers insisted that Arabs must have been responsible, that Jews would never do such a thing.

RASHID DAWABSHA stands outside his son Mamoun’s torched home in the Arab village Duma on Sunday

Christian monastery near Beit Shemesh desecrated

Beit Jamal has been targeted in "Price tag" attacks in the past.

THESE CRUCIFORM TOMBSTONES were found knocked over at the Beit Jamal monastery, the result of one of several attacks against Christian sites in the Beit Shemesh area over the years.

Israeli West Bank youth sentenced to jail for posing 'national security' risk

The Justice Ministry said that crimes were "ideological" in nature and added that the jail sentences were necessary in order to deter future incidences.

A young Jewish settler (R) speaks with an Israeli police officer near buildings slated for demolition in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit El

Analysis: Is the Duma case full of holes or does Ben-Uliel face jail time?

Ben-Uliel apparently confessed to the Shin Bet, but retracted before the police.

Amiram Ben-Oliel, charged with racially-motivated murder for the arson attack on the Dawabsha family home in Duma‏

Netanyahu slams MKs for differentiating between attacks

PM condemns Joint List MK Osama Sa’adi and Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich for refusing to equate all acts of terror.

Benjamin Netanyahu