{"id":4490,"date":"2008-10-20T22:46:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T03:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2008-10-20T22:46:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T03:46:52","slug":"ali-abunimah-the-arab-jewish-clashes-in-acre-and-the-connection-to-israel%e2%80%99s-extremist-settlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4490","title":{"rendered":"Ali Abunimah: The Arab-Jewish Clashes in Acre and the Connection to Israel\u2019s Extremist Settlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Palestine Center Information Brief No. 167 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemfund.org\/images\/informationbrief.php?ID=197\">15\u00a0October 2008<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Ali Abunimah<br \/>\nPalestine Center Fellow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acre, a mixed city of approximately 52,000 people in northern Israel, recently witnessed four days of violent clashes between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Israeli Jewish residents. While the facts and meaning of these events have been heavily contested, one of the underreported factors is the extent to which militant Israeli settlers from the West Bank, funded by donors in the United States, have instigated tension in Acre and other cities in an attempt to reduce their Arab populations. This brief will summarize the facts available from public sources and provide background and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli leaders have presented the events in Acre as unfortunate intercommunal violence in an otherwise peaceful city. Palestinians have perceived them\u2014correctly it would appear\u2014as being related to efforts organized by Jewish extremists to force Arabs out of the city (Palestinians in Israel are citizens of the state and are often also referred to as \u201cArabs\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemfund.org\/images\/informationbrief.php?ID=197\">Read More<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestine Center Information Brief No. 167 (15\u00a0October 2008) By Ali Abunimah Palestine Center Fellow Acre, a mixed city of approximately 52,000 people in northern Israel, recently witnessed four days of violent clashes between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Israeli Jewish &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4493,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}