Jewish Extremism

One killed several wounded as settler extremists, Palestinians clash across West Bank during Sukkot

Clashes between settlers and Palestinians were reported across the West Bank during Sukkot, including a deadly shooting in Yasuf and violence linked to the olive harvest.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Graffiti vandalizing a mosque wall in Bazariya, northern West Bank, denouncing US Ambassador Mike Huckabee's statements condemning the extremist settler violence in Kusra, West Bank, pictured September 1, 2026.
A Palestinian man walks next to a vehicle damaged in what Palestinians say was an Israeli settlers attack, in Deir Abu Masha'al, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, September 28, 2026.

Netanyahu condemns riots in West Bank, calls to fully prosecute extremist settlers involved

Settler extremists threw stones, assaulted IDF and Border Police, and set fire to property throughout the area, actions which members of the establishment utterly condemned.

|ByJONAH DAVIDOV, IDAN KWELLER
Palestinians attempt to control the fire after Jewish settler extremists set fire to vehicles and property near the village of Jalud, in the West Bank, September 29, 2026

Over 100 Jewish extremist settlers riot near West Bank town, clash with Israeli forces

Three Border Police officers lightly wounded as extremist settlers clash with forces, setting fire to Palestinian property • Riot sought to prevent Palestinian family’s coordinated return to Jalud

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Jewish settler encampment, used for grazing, is located on Palestinian land in the Masoudiya area, northwest of Nablus in the West Bank. Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian homes, throwing stones and setting fire to farmland in the village of Deir Dibwan and the Masoudiya area. June 15, 2026.

IDF detains 14 HaBashan Pioneers attempting to infiltrate into Syria, establish settlements

The IDF detained 14 Israelis from the extremist Pioneers of Bashan after they crossed the Israel's Golan border into Syria, condemning the move and urging prosecution.

|ByASHER SMITH

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

Many voicing support for Amiram Ben Oliel allege that his confession was extracted under the duress of torture.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit) is seen visiting the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 29, 2023.

Israel Police probe suspected Jewish hate crime in Arab town

This vandalism and attack in Abu Ghosh have appeared amid a rapid increase in settler violence since a Palestinian terror attack where four Israelis were killed outside of a gas station in Eli.

JULY 17, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
graffiti sprayed on a wall

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

Bentzi Gopstein was banned from running for Knesset in 2019 as he was indicted on charges of incitement to terrorism, violence and racism. 

JUNE 8, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court after he was arrested by police earlier today, October 22, 2017.

Editor's Notes: The kids are not alright

Israeli teens lead the world in volunteerism and acts of selfless kindness, but there's a strain of extremism snaking its way through Israel’s youth that may change the face of the country.

MAY 4, 2023ByAVI MAYER
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).

Two Israeli teens indicted for firebombing mosque in Herzliya

The two Israelis were originally planning to jump an Arab citizen but abandoned that idea and decided to attack a mosque instead.

MARCH 17, 2023ByTZVI JOFFRE
The Sidna Ali Mosque in Herzliya, Israel.

The settler pogrom in Huwara was anti-Zionist - opinion

Zionism is not a single monolithic idea but an amalgam of often competing ideas and we ought to remember that tensions never lie far from the surface.

MARCH 12, 2023ByDANIEL GOLDMAN
View of cars burned by Jewish settlers during riots last night in Huwara, in the West Bank, near Nablus, February 27, 2023

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

A day after Jewish extremists set the Palestinian town of Huwara ablaze, Otzma Yehudit MKs remain belligerent, and avoid condemning the violence.

FEBRUARY 28, 2023BySHIRA SILKOFF
MK Limor Son Har Melech discussion in the Israeli parliament on the TV-show "Shtula" (Double agent), airing on Israeli TV, November 21, 2022.

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

Shlom Asiraich has been working with New Jersey-based World of Tzedakah to raise funds for Israeli Jewish extremists imprisoned for serious crimes.

JANUARY 24, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

Jewish extremists appear to vandalize Christian graves in Old City

The vandalism extends a pattern of attacks on Christian sites in Israel.

JANUARY 5, 2023ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
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.

Israel Police is ‘antisemitic’, says Ben-Gvir's chief-of-staff pick - report

Hanamel Dorman has in the past been a target of the Shin Bet division that deals with Jewish terrorism.

NOVEMBER 28, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Hanamel Dorfman, seen to the left of Otzma Yehudit head Itamar Ben-Gvir in a photo taken in Tel Aviv on November 7, 2022