Right now we're seeing days of rage by Jewish settlers of the West Bank after the demolition of a Jewish outpost in the colony by the Israeli government. "Price tag" violence is violence directed against Palestinians, who of course are under occupation. From the Jerusalem Post:
"Price tag" is the name given to acts of vandalism against Palestinians in response to state actions against settlements.
Already on Tuesday, extremist activists engaged in a number of “price tag” activities, smashing Palestinian car windows, throwing a Molotov cocktail into a home and rolling burning tires into two West Bank Palestinian villages. On Monday night, activists blocked roads in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
How long are Palestinians expected to put up with such acts of terrorism, IN ADDITION to the ongoing brutality of the military occupation?
It is vandalism, but it is also terrorism, because its purpose is persuasive rather than merely destructive: it aims either to persuade Israel not to harm the settlement movement or to persuade the Palestinians to leave Israel-Palestine, or both. It should be punished as terrorism.
RE: “extremist activists engaged in a number of ‘price tag’ activities, smashing Palestinian car windows, throwing a Molotov cocktail into a home…” – J. Post
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: Exactly how do these ‘price tag’ “activities” differ from what the Jerusalem Post routinely refers to as “terrorism”? Why aren’t the homes of these “extremist activists” (terrorists) bulldozed?