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Jewish Extremism

 Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, October 23, 2023

Rabbis have a duty to speak out against the Jewish extremism threatening Israel

By KENNETH BRANDER
 NEW OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth has his work cut out for him dealing with extremist Jewish violence and a rise in Palestinian terrorism.

Can Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth bring stability to the West Bank amid ongoing violence?

 Amiram Ben Uliel, accused of the Duma arson murder in July 2015 where three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, arrives to a court hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022.

How years of impunity for violent Jewish extremists in the West Bank led to current gov't

 Jewish settlers look on during a march near Hebron in the West Bank, June 21, 2021

Canada sanctions four Israelis over West Bank violence

By REUTERS
A scene from the documentary series The Jewish Underground,

Halachic State vs Caliphate: How do Jewish extremists differ from Islamist extremists? - opinion

By Boaz Tamir
Ben-Zion Gopstein (left), leader of the group Lehava, gathers with some of his young followers in Jerusalem in 2014

EU sanctions hilltop youth, Lehava for human rights violations in the West Bank

 Benzi Gopshtein speaks during an Otzma Yehudit party election campaign event in Jerusalem on July 4, 2019

Israeli far-right activist Bentzi Gopstein convicted of incitement to racism

By SHLOMI HELLER , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jerusalem police secure the Old City ahead of the Jerusalem March during the Feast of Tabernacles, October 4, 2023

Religious tolerance begins with religious leadership - opinion

 Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit) is seen visiting the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 29, 2023.

MKs, public figures raise over NIS 1m. for murderer of Palestinian family

 graffiti sprayed on a wall

Israel Police probe suspected Jewish hate crime in Arab town

 Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court after he was arrested by police earlier today, October 22, 2017.

Founder of far-right extremist movement working as Ben-Gvir's advisor - report

 STUDENTS TAKE a matriculation exam at a high school in Jerusalem. There is a strain of extremism snaking its way through Israel’s youth that, if left unchecked, may change the face of the country for years to come (Illustrative).

Editor's Notes: The kids are not alright

 The Sidna Ali Mosque in Herzliya, Israel.

Two Israeli teens indicted for firebombing mosque in Herzliya

 View of cars burned by Jewish settlers during riots last night in Huwara, in the West Bank, near Nablus, February 27, 2023

The settler pogrom in Huwara was anti-Zionist - opinion

 MK Limor Son Har Melech discussion in the Israeli parliament on the TV-show "Shtula" (Double agent), airing on Israeli TV,  November 21, 2022.

Otzma Yehudit MK: Settler violence narrative is 'false,' 'despicable'

 Amiram Ben Uliel, accused of the Duma arson murder in July 2015 where three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, arrives to a court hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022.

Israeli nonprofit raises funds in US for convicted Jewish extremists - report

A priest shows a gravestone allegedly vandalized by Jewish men in the Christian cemetery on Mount Zion, in the Old City of Jerusalem, January 4, 2023.

Jewish extremists appear to vandalize Christian graves in Old City

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA