Diana Buttu: And lest it be thought that these individuals are merely “extremists,” these individuals, include current and former members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party as well as individuals from his governing coalition. In short, this is not a small, persecuted religious minority that simply seeks religious freedom, but a group of occupiers backed by the colonising state who aim to do to Al Haram Al Sharif what they have done to the rest of Palestine: Take over, destroy and pretend we never existed. More here.