Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Breaking News

Jewish Extremists Caught on Video Celebrating Murder of Palestinian Tot

Israeli television aired video showing Jews at a wedding celebrating the murder of a Palestinian family — including an 18-month-old baby — in a West Bank terrorist firebombing.

According to , the video, released Wednesday night on Channel 10 and filmed at a Jerusalem wedding last week, features friends of the suspected assailants in the July attack on a home in the Palestinian village of Duma.

Three members of the Dawabshe family — Ali, 18 months, and his parents, Saad and Riham — were killed. Ahmed Dawabshe, now 5, the only surviving member of the immediate family, is still undergoing treatment in an Israeli hospital.

RELATED: Family of U.S. Teen Held for Firebombing Claims Torture

In the video, party-goers stab a photo of the Dawabshe family and wave knives, rifles, pistols and Molotov cocktails. The crowd chants the words to a song that includes a verse from Judges 16:28, in which Samson says, “Let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.” However, the crowd substitutes “Palestinians” for Philistines.

Photos of Ali Dawabsheh, toddler killed in West Bank arson. Image by Getty Images

Tzipi Livni, a Zionist Union lawmaker, spoke about the video before the Knesset.

“This is the group that wants to destroy the Jewish Israel, to destroy this state from within, to destroy the government from within and sow hate,” she said, according to the Times of Israel.

Livni pointed at Bezalel Smutrich, a member of the right-wing Jewish Home party, and said, “These are the people you protest being interrogated by the Shin Bet.”

The suspects in the Duma attack, who are Jewish and are being held in administrative detention, have claimed the Shin Bet tortured them during interrogation, a charge the security service denies.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett have defended the Shin Bet. Bennett, who is the education minister, told a group of religious Zionist school administrators at a gathering Wednesday that he is “closely supervising” the Shin Bet, according to Haaretz.

“What is being done to [the Jewish terror suspects] is certainly no more than is done against Palestinian terrorists,” he said.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.