Why Palestinians in Israel believe crime is a ‘strategic state project’

On April 29, Susan Abdelqader was gunned down in her car near her home in Tira — the fifth Palestinian citizen of Israel killed in five days, and the 83rd this year. A well-known community activist, Abdelqader had helped lead Tel Aviv’s “March of the Dead” in 2023, where thousands of Palestinian and Jewish protesters carried symbolic coffins to decry the escalating murders in Israel’s…