Palestinian Affairs

Incitement-fueled violence against Israelis continued Friday as three teenagers were shot in two separate attacks in Hebron. The first attack took place outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs, where a 16-year-old was seriously hurt by gunfire to the upper body and taken to a hospital in Jerusalem, Channel 2 reported. An 18-year-old was reported...

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A letter signed by 369 members of Congress calling on President Mahmoud Abbas to stop incitement to violence within the Palestinian Authority was released by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. The letter was signed by committee Chairman Ed Royce (R – Calif.) and ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel...

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A lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School on Tuesday by renowned Israeli scholar Moshe Halbertal was marred when anti-Israel protesters repeatedly shouted down his remarks. The protesters delayed the lecture by half an hour with repeated shouts and interruptions from the audience, before continuing to chant outside the room in which the event was held,...

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An Israeli Border Police officer was injured when he was deliberately struck by a Palestinian driver near Hebron, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The man sustained a major head wound and is in critical condition. A Palestinian careened his car into an Israeli Border Police officer north of...

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Isaac Herzog, head of the Israeli opposition party Zionist Union, told Britain’s ambassador to Israel that the European Union’s plan to label products coming from Israeli settlements is “a prize that Europe is bestowing for terror,” The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The EU will decide next week exactly how...

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Two bipartisan resolutions, one condemning incitement by the Palestinian Authority against Israel and the other raising concerns about anti-Semitism in Europe, passed unanimously in the United States House of Representatives this week. The resolution condemning Palestinian incitement was sponsored by Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – Fla.) and Ted Deutch (D –...

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