The left-wing organizations are once again provoking the “settler violence” campaign. Breaking the Silence claimed this week that it was a “growing wave of violence.” However, a document compiled by the police and obtained by Makor Rishon indicates a downward trend in the exceptional incidents.
According to the police data, in 2021 only 33 cases were opened in the SJ District on suspicion of nationalist crime by Jews in Judea and Samaria. Published in Glatz, in these years there has also been a decrease in price tag cases.In 2021 there were 7 incidents of spraying addresses against Arabs on a nationalist background, in response to terrorist attacks.In 2020 there were 18 such and in 2019 there were 36 incidents.
It should be noted that due to the legal status of the Judea and Samaria area, there are cases that are investigated and examined as nationalist even though they do not contain any element that really includes nationalism or suspicion of harming the Arabs.
Adv. Itzik Bam, a criminal law expert and the director of Lavi’s legal counsel, explains that “it must be taken into account that in the SJ district the motive is classified not according to the nature of the act but also a minority who does it. Closed military area order or violation of administrative order.Most cases are not price tag violations but violation of orders and things of this kind and not hate crimes or harm to the Arab population.In addition, most cases do not end in an indictment so there is a very large investment of police resources for investigations opened on suspicion Unrelated to the nature of the offense and the attempt to indict. “
In them he also cites a case in which a traffic offense of driving without a license and an accident was transferred for investigation to the National Crime Squadron at the SJ Squadron because the driver of the vehicle was a hill boy.