The abuses include "torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," the EU Council said in a statement.
Gopstein, who leads the extremist anti-Arab group Lehava, was convicted for a speech ten years ago at a memorial to the extremist Jewish rabbi Meir Kahane.
Imagine if the roles were reversed, with Christians spitting at Jews in some European capital.
Many voicing support for Amiram Ben Oliel allege that his confession was extracted under the duress of torture.
This vandalism and attack in Abu Ghosh have appeared amid a rapid increase in settler violence since a Palestinian terror attack where four Israelis were killed outside of a gas station in Eli.
Bentzi Gopstein was banned from running for Knesset in 2019 as he was indicted on charges of incitement to terrorism, violence and racism.
Israeli teens lead the world in volunteerism and acts of selfless kindness, but there's a strain of extremism snaking its way through Israel’s youth that may change the face of the country.
The two Israelis were originally planning to jump an Arab citizen but abandoned that idea and decided to attack a mosque instead.
Zionism is not a single monolithic idea but an amalgam of often competing ideas and we ought to remember that tensions never lie far from the surface.
A day after Jewish extremists set the Palestinian town of Huwara ablaze, Otzma Yehudit MKs remain belligerent, and avoid condemning the violence.
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