On March 28, Israeli settlers carried out a pogrom in the Palestinian village of Jinba, with the full backing — and later, participation — of the Israeli army. This was just four days after a similar and much-publicized attack in the nearby village of Susiya, yet it received only a fraction of the international media attention: after all, none of the victims had won an Oscar.
It began at 7 a.m. when an Israeli settler driving an ATV charged at a pair of Palestinian shepherds and their flock on the outskirts of the village, located in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank. In a video from the incident, the settler can be seen assaulting one of the shepherds right before the clip ends.
What happens next is unclear, but the settler himself apparently sustained minor injuries. Despite the video showing that the settler was not even with a flock, and another in which he drives away on his ATV, right-wing media in Israel quickly disseminated a narrative that a Jewish shepherd had been “lynched.” ….more
