Israel has largely avoided the kind of communal strife that shook the country during the conflict between Israel and Hamas in 2021. But the tide could be turning.
NETANYA, Israel — It allegedly started with two eggs thrown at a synagogue. By nightfall, Palestinian students were barricaded in their dormitories as hundreds of furious protesters gathered outside, kicking at doors and trying to break in.
💥Terrifying event at Netanya College, where a few dozen Arab students are locked in dorms & several 100s far-right Jews are trying to break in & shouting the police minister's old song, "death to Arabs." Cops doing nothing to evacuate writes, some in Israel have begun to turn on its Palestinian citizens — long portrayed by the far right here as an enemy within.
More than 8,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7. The Israel Defense Forces has “expanded” its operations in the Gaza Strip in recent days, adding troops and armored tanks. Follow“We are wounded, we are bloody ... and still they rub salt in our wounds?” said Gabi Dayan, a 50-year-old Jewish resident who was part of the angry crowd. After Oct. 7, he said, emotions are still raw. “Where is the solidarity? Whoever is here that is not a loyal citizen, you have to expel them.
In Netanya on Saturday, “we came to demonstrate and ask that they return to us our security,” said Agmar, a reservist who deployed to Kibbutz Be’eri, the scene of some of the worst brutality on Oct. 7. More than 100 people were killed there.“After those sights, I question if we didn’t make a mistake in our whole concept” of Arabs and Israelis living side by side, he said.
Miriam, 19, a Jewish psychology student at the university, said she supported the move. She has spent time with friends in recent weeks trawling though the social media pages of her Palestinian classmates, as well as other Arab professionals in the community. “We are reporting them,” she said: “nurses, doctors, professors.”
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