Herzog compares Amona synagogue rioters to Duma killers

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog compares the protesters who clashed with police during the evacuation of the Amona synagogue to the radical Jewish group responsible for the Duma firebombing, in which a Palestinian infant and his parents were killed.

“There’s a direct line between the violent rioters that we saw in the last hours of Amona and the underground movement that carried out the Duma massacre. A group of outlaws, with no connection to the law-abiding Amona residents and other settlers,” Herzog says in a statement.

“I said before this painful evacuation, we cannot allow violence of any time, especially not against police officers who are our sons,” he says.

“We must all come together at this time and protect democracy and the rule of law,” Herzog adds.

— Judah Ari Gross