‘Burn in hell’: Israeli settlers spread hate through graffiti, attacks
Racist and hostile Hebrew slogans by Israeli settlers defacing a wall in the village of Jalud
Ola Mohammad reports in Al Jazeera on 12 August 2026:
Scrawled in black graffiti, the word “Revenge” stains the terracotta facade of a school in Jalud, a village in the occupied West Bank. Other slogans carry a more direct threat: “Burn in hell,” reads one. “Get out of the village,” says another.
It is a familiar sight across this community, located 27km (17 miles) south of Nablus and home to some 1,000 Palestinians.
Under the cover of darkness or in broad daylight, Israeli settlers have been targeting Palestinian public institutions and homes with increased intensity, spraying slogans with racist and threatening messages, as well as invoking biblical passages to justify committing their crimes.
Residents and officials say the defacing of the buildings typically accompanies violent settler attacks. Jalud has been subjected to five major assaults since last January, the latest being on August 4 when settlers burned vehicles and sprayed racist slogans on a residential building.
‘Take revenge here’
Jalud resident Misbah al-Haj Mohammed said some of the slogans bear the names of settlers who carried out previous attacks, as if wanting to “challenge” people in the village and neighbouring areas.
He added that the messages written on school walls are aimed specifically at children to create a sense of fear in them about attending classes, while those threatening expulsion want to signify that “killing and displacement are inevitably coming”.