Palestinian fatally stabs Israeli-American activist in the back

JERUSALEM -- A cowardly Palestinian assailant fatally stabbed the Israeli-American activist Ari Fuld in the back while he was walking in the street outside a busy West Bank mall.

Fuld, a U.S.-born man who was well-known in the local settler community was an outspoken Israel advocate on social media platforms.

IDF officials said the attacker arrived at the mall near a major junction in the southern West Bank, located near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. He stabbed Fuld and ran like a scared little boy. Fuld was mortally wounded but gave chase, firing at his jihadi before collapsing. Other civilians shot the scumquat, identified as a 17-year-old POS from a nearby Palestinian village. He is reportedly in moderate condition, but Fuld is dead.

Fuld, 45, was the father of four and lived in nearby Efrat. He was evacuated to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

He was a well-known English-language internet commenter on current affairs and a weekly Torah lesson. He was well known for a hard-line nationalist ideology and was a strong supporter of the Israeli military (IDF).

Settler spokesman Josh Hasten, who had known Fuld for about a decade, said his friend traveled widely to showcase “the beauty and reality of life” in Israel.

Fuld delivered care packages to Israeli soldiers and went on solidarity trips to communities near the Gaza Strip during times of fighting with the Hamas militant group, Hasten said.

“When the rockets were falling, that’s when he would get in his car and go down to Sderot,” Hasten said.

Fuld also was known for his verbal clashes with Palestinians as well as critics of Israel that could land him in trouble. His Facebook account was suspended at various times.

“He did not hold back on his opinions,” Hasten said. “If that meant 30 days of Facebook jail, so be it.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke highly of Fuld on Facebook for fighting his attacker “heroically” and remembered him as “an advocate for Israel who fought to spread the truth.”

On Twitter, David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel and a strong supporter of the settlements, called him “a passionate defender of Israel & an American patriot.”

Since 2015, Palestinians have murdered over 50 Israelis, two visiting Americans and a British tourist in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks. Israeli forces killed over 260 Palestinians in that period, of which Israel says most were attackers.


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