''Price tag'' activists acted yesterday (June 24) again. This time it happened in Beit Hanina. The inhabitants of this neighborhood in east Jerusalem discovered in the morning that anonymous hands had vandalized 21 cars and sprayed on the walls graffiti of the Star of David star and a slogan: ''We won't keep silent when stones are being thrown.''  

Less than a week before, on June 18, it happened to the inhabitants of Abu Ghosh. The residents of this peaceful and friendly village, situated in the Jerusalem corridor, found that during the preceding night “Arabs out!” hate graffiti and the like had been sprayed on the village's houses, and 28 cars were vandalized.

And if you wonder about the meaning of the term price tag, well, it is laundered language that almost legitimizes and cleanses acts of vandalism which have long since crossed the criminal line against Palestinians and their property. Hurling stones, scattering spikes along traffic routes used by Palestinian vehicles, setting fire to fields and orchards, spraying slanderous racist graffiti and desecrating mosques are just some of these acts.

This despicable term “went on the air” for the first time in the summer of 2008, following the evacuation of the Adei Ad outpost in Samaria. Settlers professedly seeking to protest against the evacuation of the illegal outpost opted for vandalism, damaging property of Palestinians and, incidentally, also breaking property belonging to the Israeli police and the Israel Defense Forces, which had been called on to conduct the evacuation.