Israeli professor indicted over alleged plot to massacre Palestinians

Tel Aviv,
An Israeli university lecturer has been indicted on charges of planning large-scale terrorist attacks targeting Palestinians inside Israel and in occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. He has also been suspended from his university.
According to a Haaretz report, the accused is a mathematics lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. He is over 60, and his identity is under a legal publication ban. He devised a plan he called “Operation Transfer,” whose core aim was to force Palestinians to flee or relocate to Jordan, Lebanon and Gaza. Prosecutors said he spent more than three years drafting the plan, preparing detailed documents and trying to recruit others. The Times of Israel reported that the State Attorney’s Office said he sought help from “subversive elements” within the Israeli Air Force, artillery and tank units.
According to the indictment, the plan was highly organized, involving 72 Jewish activists divided into 12 groups. They were to carry out simultaneous, coordinated attacks on mixed Jewish-Palestinian cities and Palestinian communities in Israel. The plan targeted ordinary civilians, with instructions to show no mercy to anyone, including women and children. It estimated that 600 to 700 people would be killed and required at least half of the attackers, including the professor, to hold gun licenses. It also counted on help from elements within the Israeli military and aimed to use social media coverage of the attacks to spread fear, so that Israel’s Palestinian citizens would be driven to flee the country.
The professor also tried to recruit former security officials, journalists, academics and right-wing political leaders, including former lawmaker Moshe Feiglin, whose Zehut group has joined Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party ahead of the October 27 parliamentary elections. Around June, he asked his daughter to bring in acquaintances among illegal extremist Israeli settlers known as the “Hilltop Youth” in the occupied West Bank. She refused.
The Central District Attorney’s Office filed the indictment at the Lod District Court and asked that the accused remain in custody until proceedings conclude. Bar-Ilan University has suspended the lecturer, saying it is “deeply shocked” by the allegations and that it has a “zero tolerance” policy toward such conduct. Palestinians make up roughly 21 percent of Israel’s population of over ten million.