Pogrom state made manifest
The far-right terror campaign against Palestinians sees the police arresting those who dare resist. Meanwhile global opposition to Israel grows apace. Tony Greenstein looks at the changing picture
Since the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza, Israeli police have been taking their revenge on Israel’s Palestinians for what Jonathan Freedland concedes has been a “strategic disaster”.
1 Oren Ziv in Israel’s
+972 magazine described how, in response to the pogroms against Palestinians in Israeli ‘mixed’ cities by Jewish vigilantes and armed settler gangs, the police have been engaged in a widespread round-up - not of the attackers, but those who tried to defend themselves!