Judy Mandelbaum, Salon: Time was when Nazis used to slather swastikas on synagogues and Jewish businesses to prepare the local population for expulsion or much worse... Israelis [are now] regularly defacing Palestinian property with Stars of David...
A gang of Israeli settlers attacked the West Bank village of Hawara... Haaretz writes, 'A small village mosque used only on the weekend, had the word 'Muhammad' sprayed in Hebrew and a Star of David... The attackers also took the opportunity to destroy some three hundred olive trees, a major source of local income.
In February of 2009, a Canadian writer by the name of Marcello Di Cintio witnessed how 'earlier this week, the IDF raided Jayyous. Soldiers entered the village at night, seized about a hundred young men and penned them in the school gymnasium. The troops also occupied several village houses and spray-painted a Star of David over a pro-freedom mural on a school wall.'...
According to the Maan News Agency, in December 2008, 'Israeli settlers rampaged through five villages... vandalizing mosques, attacking farms and harassing residents... Settlers slashed the tires of more than 20 cars and also set fire to thousands of shekels worth of straw bales, used as animal feed... Settlers painted a Star of David and slogans such as 'Death to Arabs' on the village mosque.'...
'On 19 March 2007, Israeli settlers illegally occupied an empty four-story Palestinian building,' the Electronic Intifada reported... 'Already settlers have placed a wire at the entrance of the Palestinian house across the street to trip residents as they exit their homes. They have stoned the house and spray painted a Star of David on the front door.'...
Also in 2007, Tim McGirk blogged about his own experience in the West Bank for Time Magazine: ... 'The settler kids had spray-painted a Star of David on walls of all the Arab houses. A religious symbol used for intimidation. I found this disturbing, like seeing the Ku Klux Klan's cross blazing on a black man's lawn.'
Blogging for the Madison Times, George Arida described a visit to Nablus in 2003: 'We stopped at Joseph's Tomb, a site of archaeological and religious significance... The soldiers had left a spray-painted Star of David on the ancient stone wall. This spray-painted souvenir was left by the Israelis on the walls of many buildings in Nablus.'
Israeli troops pulled out of the West Bank city of Ramallah in 2002. 'The home of Hamdi Flaifer, 35, was in ruins after an Israeli search,' the New York Times reported... 'Just outside his front door, Israelis had spray-painted a Star of David and a number, indicating to other Israelis that his house had been searched.'
