Middle East Report Online writes:
On October 8, Tawfiq Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel living in the “mixed town” of Acre, got into his car to run an errand. That day was Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days of the Jewish religious calendar, on which the streets of Israel’s Jewish cities and towns customarily empty of traffic. Jewish residents of Acre, claiming an insult to their beliefs, chased Jamal inside a house and besieged the place; then Arab residents broke some Jewish shop windows; then Jews attacked numerous Arab homes, shops and cars. Understanding the rioting calls for a better understanding of what line Jamal actually crossed on October 8, in turn requiring that his journey that day be retraced, not through a maze of religious sensibilities, but backwards through history.
So argues Peter Lagerquist in “Recipe for a Riot: Parsing Israel’s Yom Kippur Upheavals,” now available in Middle East Report Online.