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Breakdown: The Stabbers and the Message that Motivates Them

The First Knife Appears Many point to Muhannad Shafiq Halabi as the first stabber in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 3, 2015, the first inspiration to the many terrorists to stab their victims to death. However, the first signs of the current “habba” [buzz] started to emerge in Hebron. On September 22, 2015, […]

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Appendix: Profiles of the Perpetrators
(September 13, 2015 – January 18, 2016)

Sep. 13, 2015, Stones thrown at Israeli vehicle in Armon Hanatziv, Jerusalem, killing the driver Abd Mahmoud Abd Rabbo Dawiyat, 19, from Sur Bahr, east Jerusalem Affiliation: Unknown. During interrogation he claimed he had gone to carry out the attack wrapped in a Hamas flag. He claimed he got it when he participated in the […]

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About the Authors

Hirsh Goodman established the program on media strategy at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. He was a former military correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report and a strategic fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser is Director of the Project […]

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Defending Israel, One Article at a Time

Nestled in a small building in the German Colony in Jerusalem, Israel, is a quaint, historic building known as the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA). This edifice houses a group of scholars who are interested in defending Israel. I had the pleasure of interning for them this summer.

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Combating Delegitimization and BDS

Combating Delegitimization and BDS is a major multilingual public diplomacy program exposing forces questioning Israel’s very legitimacy.

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Anti-Semitism is the Motivation for the BDS Campaign Whose Goal is to Delegitimize Israel

Israel is rightly alarmed at the escalating scale of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. BDS constitutes a concrete threat to the future of Israel’s economic, academic, cultural, sports and political standing. BDS is not only a well-organized and structured global operation that aims to push for Israel to withdraw from territories, but a campaign […]