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© AP/Heidi Levine Jaffa Protest • May 15, 2021 Attacks on synagogues and archeological sites inside Israel are rooted in Palestinian citizens' experience of weaponized development 'for Jews only'. Last weekend Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as "terrorists" those Palestinian citizens who have been protesting decades of state-sponsored discrimination. He vowed that "anyone who acts like a terrorist will be handled like one. Arab law-breakers are attacking Jews, burning synagogues and Jewish homes." Netanyahu has been far from alone in his denunciations of nearly two ...

Residents of Jaffa protesting on May 15, 2021. (Photo: AP Photo/Heidi Levine) Last weekend Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as “terrorists” those Palestinian citizens who have been protesting decades of state-sponsored discrimination. Vowing that “anyone who acts like a terrorist will be handled like one”, he said: “Arab law-breakers are attacking Jews, burning synagogues and Jewish homes.” Netanyahu has been far from alone in his denunciations of nearly two weeks of protests inside Israel by the fifth of Israel’s population who are Palestinian by origi...

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JAFFA, Israel — In the ancient port city of Jaffa, where Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel live side by side, the ritual has taken on an ugly familiarity. Smoke rises from smoldering trash bins as young Arab men face off against Israeli police — and later on, police stand by as young Jewish men in skullcaps hurl stones toward Palestinian youths or Arab storefronts. Israel is in the grip of its worst communal violence in decades — an eruption of ethnic strife that has rattled cities and towns from the Negev desert to the biblical hills of the Galilee. Nightly street battles th...

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