Israeli rightists push for takeover of Al-Aqsa compound
"Israel's framing of the conflict along religious lines is an attempt to decontextualise the clashes that have been happening between Palestinians and Israeli settlers," Nur Arafeh, a policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, told Al Jazeera.
Arafeh said that Palestinian "resistance to a settler-colonial and apartheid" are time and again "distortedly linked to religious fervor".