Israeli police have rejected a United States terror report's inclusion of Jewish extremist attacks on Palestinians - such as the vandalism of West Bank mosques - as terrorism.
The US State Department's 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism spoke of an increase of racist anti-Palestinian vandalism - otherwise known as "price tag" attacks - against symbolic buildings such as mosques and churches.
"Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian residents, property, and places of worship in the West Bank continued and were largely unprosecuted," said the report.
Israeli police refuted the report's claims and argued that nationalist "price tag" attacks were far from terrorism.
"There's no comparison whatsoever between criminal incidents with nationalistic motives and terrorist-related incidents," said Israel police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
