Jewish Extremism

Is the UK’s new leadership serving Islam? - opinion

With a PM and foreign minister planning to implement hostile policies toward Israel, one wonders who this government truly caters to

|ByALAN BAKER
UK Foreign Secretary Edward Miliband.
An Israeli soldier pray at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site in the Old City of Jerusalem.

IDF fires commander filmed praying with West Bank Jewish extremists during Kusra siege

The IDF says the commander has been explicitly ordered to avoid taking any actions that may be in any way interpreted as identifying with the Jewish extremists or supporting their illegal conduct.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
AN ISRAELI settler (R) and a Palestinian farmer are seen arguing during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, on October 29, 2025.

West Bank settler violence and illegal farms are no surprise, veteran journalist warns - opinion

Anyone who truly believes that a peaceful solution to this conflict can now be achieved simply through an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and the creation of a Palestinian state is naive.

|ByMARK LAVIE/THE MEDIA LINE
A Palestinian assailant attacks Israeli hikers near Gilad Farm, northern West Bank, July 24, 2026.

Hiking should not be a crime punishable by death - opinion

Israeli settlers entering a Palestinian village can be seen from two perspectives.

|ByYISRAEL MEDAD

We’ll do it our way

Polly Bronstein says she "came back to Israel in 2013 to a changed country."

DECEMBER 29, 2016ByPAMELA PELED
Polly Bronstein

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