Why It Matters Whether an Attack on Palestinians Is ‘Terrorism’

Definitions of the campaign vary. One 2013 tally found nearly 800 cases of suspected price-tag attacks, and 276 arrests, in an 18-month span. In 2014, Israeli security officials blamed a group of about 100 hardliners for most of the attacks.

.. The question of what to call the attacks could be important for another reason, too: money. The Israeli government compensates victims of terrorism and their families. Typically, that has been a right afforded to Israelis who are killed or injured by Palestinian attacks. But in some more recent cases, the government has opted to grant Palestinians compensation as well, as NPR’s Daniel Estrin noted last year.

After Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir was abducted and killed by three Israeli men, his family was paid.