Jewish terrorism against Palestinians is being normalised at the highest levels of Israel’s internal security service, according to Haaretz, which reports that Shin Bet chief David Zini dismisses settler attacks as mere “friction”. Shin Bet’s Jewish Division is said to be in deep crisis, a situation that has worsened since Zini took office. Sources told Haaretz that Zini does not refer to attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as “Jewish terror” but instead calls them “cases of friction” between Jews and Palestinians. Zini has deprioritised the division responsible for tackling right-wing Jewish extremism, despite internal 2026 data showing that, for the first time, there were more Jewish than Palestinian terror incidents. READ: US Jewish organisations slam ‘pogroms’ and […]
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