Far-right activist interrogated by police

Extreme right-wing activist Noam Federman is questioned by police on suspicion of inciting to violence and racism. The interrogation comes in response to a Facebook post by Federman following an attack in the West Bank Palestinian village of Duma a month ago.

Federman had cited the biblical commentator Don Isaac Abravanel, who posited that the children of enemies must be slain in their sleep, Israel Radio reports.

Saad Dawabsha and his 18-month-old son Ali were killed last month when their home in Duma was firebombed in what is believed to be a nationalist attack by Jewish extremists. The Hebrew words “Revenge” and “Long live the king messiah” were spray-painted on walls at the site of that attack, alongside a Star of David.