With the huge wave of terrorism sweeping across the West Bank in the past few months, Israeli security forces are also worried about a discernible increase in the acts of retaliation committed by Jews against Arabs. According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), from January to the end of November 2022, there have been 838 cases of “nationalist crimes” (as the IDF calls it) by Jews against Arabs.
What makes this especially disturbing is the fact that in all of 2021, 446 attacks were committed by Jews against Arabs, and even that was considered a high number. Many of the attacks in 2021 can be attributed to Operation Guardian of the Walls in May of that year, which exacerbated friction between Jews and Arabs.
