Twice recently, Israeli Jewish mob terror in the occupied West Bank broke through the international media’s wall of self-censorship: first, when the mobs attacked Israeli soldiers, and again when they brutally beat The Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine. The irony is damning. Attacking Israeli soldiers is news; violence against a Western journalist becomes international headlines and may even force Israel to stage a token, rotating door arrest, for PR consumption. But when Israeli soldiers and Jewish mobs terrorize Palestinian farmers, torch their cars, burn their olive trees, and drive them from their land, coverage too often disappears into the background.

The day following the vicious attack on the American journalist, another Israeli Jewish mob attacked a delegation of European diplomats in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh.

They smashed the window of a consular vehicle and beat a French mayor with iron bars. The Israeli army sought to bury the incident in the same talking points: it would investigate. Benjamin Netanyahu’s office urged “caution,” suggesting the reports were part of a “coordinated campaign to smear Israel,” and Jews in the West Bank.

They smashed the window of a consular vehicle and beat a French mayor with iron bars. The Israeli army sought to bury the incident in the same talking points: it would investigate. Benjamin Netanyahu’s office urged “caution,” suggesting the reports were part of a “coordinated campaign to smear Israel,” and Jews in the West Bank.

When the world witnesses Israeli Jewish mob terror firsthand, Zionist defenders deflect, portray themselves as perpetual victims, and cry conspiracy against Jews.

Worse, these attacks unfold under the watchful eye of Israeli soldiers, who not only stand by as settlers terrorize Palestinians but at times join in the abuse themselves. And when a Palestinian is murdered by these mobs, the community is denied, by the occupying Israeli military, to mourn their dead. The question is not why these hateful Jewish mobs are violent, but why they are allowed to act with complete impunity.

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