Here's why Israel is allowing record murder rates in its Palestinian towns

"Israel is tolerating violence against its Palestinian citizens to push them out, while weaponising anti-Semitism to pull Jews in. While the international media has rightly focused on the genocide and enormous displacement in Gaza alongside the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, the 300 murders inside Israel in 2025, 252 of whom were Palestinian victims, garnered little to no media coverage outside Israel."

"Yet last year marked the deadliest year on record for murders among Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 21 percent of Israel's population but sustain 80 percent of the murders. That is one murder every 36 hours. The international media have also covered the rise in anti-Semitism across the world, even as there has been little to no media coverage of how Israel has been exaggerating and instrumentalising a Zionist notion of anti-Semitism to create moral panic among Jews everywhere."

"Indeed, when I speak to Jewish friends in Israel, they often ask how I, who live in London, cope with anti-Semitism. As consumers of Israeli news, they can be forgiven for thinking that Jews across the world are in imminent danger. These two phenomena the crime epidemic within Palestinian communities inside Israel and the weaponisation of anti-Semitism to amplify Jewish fear might seem totally unconnected. Yet there is a clear thread linking them, and it is called demographic engineering."

Israel tolerates violence against Palestinian citizens and simultaneously weaponises anti‑Semitism to attract and alarm Jewish populations. International media attention has focused on genocide and displacement in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, while murders inside Israel received little global coverage. In 2025 there were 300 murders inside Israel, 252 Palestinian victims, making it the deadliest year for Palestinian citizens of Israel. Palestinian citizens are 21 percent of the population but account for 80 percent of murders, about one murder every 36 hours. Demographic engineering has been central to the Zionist project since 1948, when about 750,000 Palestinians were displaced, 500 villages destroyed, and refugees were replaced by Jewish immigrants by 1951, transforming the state's racial composition without altering overall population size.

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