Jewish Extremism

Israel must confront Jewish extremism while rejecting Europe’s double standards - editorial

The question is whether Jewish power there will be governed by law, restraint, responsibility, and reverence for human life, or hijacked by an extremist theology dressed up as patriotism.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and committee head MK Zvika Fogel attend a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on March 24, 2026.
ISRAELI ARABS from the Bedouin community protest against discrimination and police raids in the Negev, in January 2026.

Securing 'sovereignty' in sovereign land: Israel seeks to Judaize the Galilee and Negev - opinion

Israeli settlers gesture during a weekly settlers' tour in Hebron, in the West Bank, February 7, 2026.

EU plans €6 million program to support Palestinian victims of extremist settler violence

Israeli soldiers disperse Palestinian farmers and left-wing activists preventing them from picking olives during the annual harvest season, in the village of Qusra, in the West Bank, October 29, 2024.

The over-reported and under-reported violence - opinion


Suspected Jewish terror cell members indicted for crimes against Palestinians

Purpose of cell was to “spread fear and panic among Palestinians”

An indictment hearing was held at the Lod District Court for memebers of a suspected Jewish terror cell, April 25, 2016

Shin Bet says it broke up Jewish terrorism cell

Members of cell allegedly tried to torch Palestinian home with family inside.

'Price tag' attack

Hopes for Temple Mount to be ‘flattened’ expressed at Passover sacrifice ceremony

The model ceremony included the various ancient Temple rites prescribed by the Torah and Jewish law, including the slaughtering of a lamb by Cohanim, priests, in the white robes used in Temple times.

Cohanim priests taking part in the Passover ritual

Center Field: ReligioGoons – the Jewish Taliban – threaten Judaism and Zionism

Israeli ReligioGoons mock Judaism’s ethical traditions. Their verbal violence often encourages physical violence. Their fanaticism demeans Judaism and Zionism.

Bezalel Smotrich.

Right-wing extremist group head Gopstein acquitted of assault against left-wing radical

Judge rules Gopstein practiced self-defense after Ezra Nawi breached West Bank security fence to his Jewish community.

Rabbi Bentzi Gopstein

Extreme inheritance

Although suspected Jewish militant Meir Ettinger was denied leave from prison to be at his son’s brit milah, the celebrations at the event were nonetheless raucous and the mood upbeat.

Meir Ettinger attends a remand hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.

Right from wrong: Soldiering on through tears

The soldier is now serving as a symbol for all sides of the dilemma that our boys and girls must face as soon as they don the uniform.

IDF soldier who shot a neutralized Palestinian terrorist in Hebron being led into court, March 29, 2016

How widespread is the terrorist element among religious Jewish youth?

Leaders of the religious Zionist world say the price tag/hilltop youth phenomenon is a rebellion against their theology.

Meir Ettinger attends a remand hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.

Defense Ministry extends administrative of ultra-nationalist Meir Ettinger

Ettinger and Evyatar Slonim, two Jewish settler activists currently in administrative detention have been hunger striking recently to protest their treatment.

Meir Ettinger attends a remand hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.

Does Jewish law permit torture to elicit criminal confessions?

THE PROSPECTS of the Jewish state employing torture undoubtedly jolt any student of Jewish history who lacks knowledge of the tactics used by gentiles throughout two millennia of exile.

Man handcuffed