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Fathom Highlight: What Palestinian terrorists write on Facebook / 27 October / 2015

In this week’s Fathom Highlight – a preview from our forthcoming issue – Elhanan Miller, Arab Affairs correspondent at the Times of Israel, looks at the drivers of extremism in Palestinian social media through the Facebook pages of perpetrators in the recent wave of terror attacks.

 

Our Voice of the Week is a Washington Institute panel discussion on the wave of violence around Jerusalem and the West Bank featuring Avi Issacharoff, Ghaith al-Omari, and David Makovsky. The discussion was moderated by Robert Satloff.

 

Our Image of the Week is of Hapoel Haifa FC in a message in support of coexistence ‘We refuse to be enemies.’

What Palestinian terrorists write on Facebook

by Elhanan Miller

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As the British government’s recently launched counter-extremism strategy acknowledges the role of social media in spreading hate, Elhanan Miller looks at the drivers of extremism in Palestinian society through the Facebook pages of Palestinians perpetrators in the recent wave of terror attacks. For Bahaa Allyan – who boarded a city bus in Jerusalem on 13 October and shot dead two passengers – the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis playing out in Jerusalem was about more than the perceived threat to...
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