Social media users in Israel praised and justified an Israeli professor accused of plotting to massacre hundreds of Palestinians, according to an analysis of thousands of comments under news reports of his indictment, published by the Israeli-Palestinian outlet +972 Magazine. The analysis, by political activist and software engineer Fadi Shabita, examined reactions to the case of Shahar Nevo, a 59-year-old mathematics professor at Bar-Ilan University. Israeli prosecutors charged him last month with preparing a terrorist attack, blackmail and obstruction of justice. According to the indictment, Nevo spent more than three years planning to recruit 72 Jewish attackers, organised into 12 armed cells, to carry out simultaneous attacks on Palestinian communities inside Israel and in the occupied West Bank. He allegedly […]