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An Israeli group opposed to relationships between Jews and Arabs has set up two “shelters” to assist Jewish women in leaving their Arab male partners. The anti-miscegination group Lehava created the facilities in apartment buildings, one in the West Bank and one in central Israel. “In the first days after a girl leaves an Arab…
A group of far-right Jewish activists protested outside the Jerusalem YMCA over an event they believed encouraged Jewish children to decorate Christmas trees. Members of Lehava, a group in Israel that opposes Arab-Jewish coexistence, claimed that Sunday’s event decorating the trees was targeting Jewish children. The event was intended for Jerusalem Christians. “The appeal was…
The municipality of Jerusalem has filed a civil lawsuit against three men convicted of an arson attack on a joint Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem. The lawsuit filed on Tuesday seeks more than half a million shekel, or about $130,000 in damages, which includes costs for repairing the building as well as paying for psychological treatment…
Courtesy of Jerusalem Gay Student Association, photo by Leshem Brosh “Did you see the drag show?” I asked a friend at last night’s Winter Noise Festival. “Yeah,” he responded, “did you see the racist a**holes?” Last night, in the hippest corner of Jerusalem’s city center, young Jerusalemites made history. They held the city’s first-ever public…
(Reuters) — A far-right Israeli group that agitates against Arabs in the name of religion and national security is forcing the Jewish state into a legal and political balancing act as it tries to contain sectarian violence. Among their activities, Lehava activists yelling “Death to the Arabs” picketed the wedding in August of a Muslim…
Four more activists with Lehava, a group that opposes Arab-Israeli coexistence and assimilation, were arrested. Four other members of the controversial organization also were brought in for questioning on Sunday. The arrests came less than a week after the head of Lehava, Benji Gopstein, was arrested in his West Bank hometown of Kiryat Arba. Nine…
Israeli police arrested the head of Lehava, a group that opposes Arab-Israeli coexistence and assimilation. The arrest comes after three members of the group were charged Monday with vandalizing and setting fire to an Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem last month. Lehava’s chairman, Benji Gopstein, was arrested in his hometown of Kiryat Arba, a West Bank…
The three suspects who confessed to carrying out an arson attack on a joint Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem have been identified as activists for a radical right-wing group. The trio were captured in photos smiling in a Jerusalem courtroom as they appeared to face the charges. The suspects, named as Yitzhak Gabai, 22; Nahman Twitto,…
