Last August, human rights group Yesh Din released a position paper concerning Jewish nationalist crimes in the West Bank. In recent years, far-right militants have titled such crimes "price tag" attacks. The position paper focused on price tag incidents in just six Palestinian villages in the West Bank, adjacent to the Palestinian town of Nablus and the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, from January 2017 to March 2018. All in all, the paper documented 40 separate incidents. Had the paper been published nowadays — in December — the number of incidents would have been much higher.
This December was particularly dramatic. At least one price tag attack was recorded about every three days. These included the slashing of tires of cars belonging to Palestinians, anti-Arab graffiti in Palestinian villages, the throwing of stones, the cutting down of olive trees and more. After the terrorist attack at the Givat Asaf intersection on Dec. 13, dozens of price tag attacks were recorded in Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem. In Beit Hanina, for example, assailants slashed tires and sprayed slogans like “Death to the Arabs” and “We will not sleep when blood is spilled here.” The graffiti included the Star of David, which has been adopted by price Tag activists as a symbol of their nationalist crimes.
