Last week, a group of Jews burned down a house belonging to a Palestinian family in the village of Duma, killing an eighteen-month-old child. Jonathan Tobin writes:
To the extent that [Israeli] authorities failed to monitor sufficiently, and stop, potential killers before they acted, there is probably plenty of blame to pass around. But it is wrong to say that the government has not acted against settler extremists where their actions escalated from mere rhetoric to actual terrorism. Indeed, if you listen to many settlers, they believe that the IDF is more interested in stopping Jews from attacking Arabs than in protecting settlers from Arab terror. . . .
But at this point . . . more than lip service is needed for the effort to combat Jewish extremism. The settler movement, as well as its political supporters, must come to grips with the virus of Jewish terror and thoroughly wipe it out. Tolerance for those who might justify such horrible acts—especially the radical minority who do so in the name of Judaism—must come to an end.
But even as those who care about Israel condemn Jewish violence and applaud efforts to ensure that the extremists are isolated and, where necessary, prosecuted, we should not lose sight of the fact that much of what is being said about the crime in Duma from Palestinian and anti-Israeli sources is deeply hypocritical.
Unlike the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the Israeli government does not applaud terrorists; it seeks to prosecute them. There will be no parks or sports teams named after those who killed a child in Duma as there are for Palestinians who kill Jews. Nor will there be programs on Israeli television and radio extolling the deeds of the killer.
Read more on Commentary: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/07/31/jewish-terrorists-zero-tolerance/