Corech 2016: "A week before I got there, poison had been sprayed on their land in an attempt to kill their goat herds...I only saw women scared to feed their children goat milk because they were worried it had been poisoned." Corech, Mijal Simonet (12 January 2016). "I, too, was undercover when I met Ezra Nawi. Here's what I saw". +972 Magazine. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
Steckner 2010 writes that his peculiar combination of qualities – gay, tradesman, Jewish yet of Arabic background, dark-skinned rather than bearing a white complexion – marks him out from the middle-class, intellectual Ashkenazis who make up much of the Israeli activist movement, and confounds all of the usual attributes on all sides. (cf. "Doch anders als viele seiner israelischen Mitstreiterinnen ist der offen homosexuelle Aktivist kein weißer Aschkenazi aus bildungsbürgerlichem Hause, sondern Mizrahi, Jude arabischen Ursprungs und Klempner von Beruf. Mit dieser Mischung aus Eigenschaften durchkreuzt er die gängigen Zuschreibungen auf allen Seiten.") Steckner, Anne (19 November 2010). "Stein auf Stein: Ein Tag in der Westbank zwischen erbosten Siedlerinnen, organisierten Bauern und desorientiertem Militär". ak (in German). No. 555. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
Gavron 2008, p. 38: "Nobody else would even try to grow anything in this place. There is absolutely no reason to prevent these people from living here. The Jewish settlers are relentless in their battle against the Palestinian residents of the territories. Apart from harassing their children, they steal their goats, plough up their crops, and cut down their olive trees. The assault on the olive trees is not confined to this Hebron hills location". Gavron, Daniel (2008). Holy land mosaic: stories of cooperation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 36–37. ISBN978-0-7425-4013-2.
DiLandro 2009. DiLandro, Dan (20 August 2009). "Citizen Nawi". Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO). Archived from the original on 29 December 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
Shulman 2008, pp. 30–31: "passing Susya on his way back to Jerusalem when he saw a light in one of the Palestinian fields... they were stealing another field. They had already managed to lay down several rows of plastic irrigation pipes, a clear statement of ownership in this area; when the Palestinians awoke in the morning, they would discover that the settlers' boundary had been extended, at their expense, by another sizable chunk. Another irreparable loss. Ezra called the police in Kiryat Arba. But the settlers are tuned in to the police network—in effect, the two groups work hand in hand—so as soon as they heard the call, dozens of young settler toughs descended on Ezra, screaming curses and threatening to kill him. Then the soldiers arrived, and also a few of the Palestinians seeking to protect their field. The settlers attacked Ezra's car with rocks and other weapons, but miraculously he wasn't hurt." Shulman, David D. (2008). "On Being Unfree: Fences, Roadblocks, and the Iron Cage of Palestine". Manoa. 22 (2): 13–32. doi:10.1353/man.0.0042. S2CID145654267.
Levinson 2009a: "Ezra Nawi described himself as 'a human rights activist, gay, a Mizrahi Jew who also manages to screw the state. They just don't know how to deal with me'." Levinson, Chaim (28 August 2009a). "Campaign seeks to keep rights activist out of prison". Haaretz. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
"Nawi is not afraid. Over the years, he has clashed with the settlers dozens of times and does not shy away from confrontation. Some say he is even looking for it. 'The settlers have become used to seeing Israelis caving in and crumpling when they get beaten', he says. 'I don't cave in. If anyone beats me, I strike him back. And I'm not exactly a pip-squeak'." (Hasson 2005a) Hasson, Nir (5 June 2005a). "A one-man protection force". Haaretz. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
Hasson 2005a: "In the last few weeks, police intelligence agents have warned him on several occasions that the settlers intend to take him out. 'Whoever brings his head will be very highly regarded in the settlements', says attorney Yael Barda, who helps the Palestinians in the region." Hasson, Nir (5 June 2005a). "A one-man protection force". Haaretz. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
Shulman 2013: "Although the settlers are invariably the spearhead of such attacks, the occupation system as a whole is geared towards dispossession. Under Israeli law, ownership of a field which is not cultivated for three years reverts to the state; Palestinian farmers have, at best, intermittent access to their lands, because of the settler attacks. Our job is to help them in the never-ending micro-struggle for each olive tree, each well, each scraggly, thorny patch on the hill." Shulman, David D. (June 2013). "Truth and Lies in South Hebron". Jewish Quarterly. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018.
Bronner 2009: "That is not the view of the settlers. 'He is a troublemaker,' asserted Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, a spokesman for Israeli settler communities in the area. 'It's true that from time to time there is a problem of some settlers coming out of their settlements to cause problems. But people like Nawi don't want a solution. Their whole aim is to cause trouble'." Bronner, Ethan (27 June 2009). "Unlikely Ally for Residents of West Bank". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
Shulman 2008, pp. 30–31: "passing Susya on his way back to Jerusalem when he saw a light in one of the Palestinian fields... they were stealing another field. They had already managed to lay down several rows of plastic irrigation pipes, a clear statement of ownership in this area; when the Palestinians awoke in the morning, they would discover that the settlers' boundary had been extended, at their expense, by another sizable chunk. Another irreparable loss. Ezra called the police in Kiryat Arba. But the settlers are tuned in to the police network—in effect, the two groups work hand in hand—so as soon as they heard the call, dozens of young settler toughs descended on Ezra, screaming curses and threatening to kill him. Then the soldiers arrived, and also a few of the Palestinians seeking to protect their field. The settlers attacked Ezra's car with rocks and other weapons, but miraculously he wasn't hurt." Shulman, David D. (2008). "On Being Unfree: Fences, Roadblocks, and the Iron Cage of Palestine". Manoa. 22 (2): 13–32. doi:10.1353/man.0.0042. S2CID145654267.
Baram 2004: "I was attached to this community from the moment I came in contact with it, living like people in biblical times, working the land with the most primitive tools. And all of a sudden, they are in existential danger, prosecuted, having their fields burned, their wells poisoned, their elderly beaten and their land taken away from them. You can't just walk away". Baram, Daphna (29 November 2004). "My plumber, my hero". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
McGirk 2009 refers to the same incident. It took place a day after settlers from Susia had tried to drive out a local Palestinian family off their land by poisoning their well with a dead dog. Nawi and other Ta'ayush activists protected them as they drew water. McGirk, Tim (15 August 2009). "Ezra Nawi: Jewish Pacifist Facing Jail for Aiding Arabs". Time. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
"When I first saw it I found it hard to imagine that anyone could take it seriously; it has all the hallmarks of a hack job, a video tabloid. Clips taken on different days are bunched together randomly and accompanied by scare music and voice-over narration that romanticizes the investigators. Images of Ad Kan members setting up their cameras are interspersed with those of scary-looking Ta'ayush volunteers..But this is just a teaser toward the beginning of the program. The same conversation reappears twenty minutes later in the course of a longer discussion of the deal with the Palestinian selling land. Or rather, the same audio reappears, but the video is different. This new video, also in the car, has a different time stamp about 15 minutes later than the first one. Or perhaps it was taken on a different day altogether, since there is only a time stamp and no date stamp on the first video. The camera angle is different. A paper in the foreground on the first run-through has mysteriously vanished and there are no blinding flashes. Only in the later video does Nawi wear sunglasses. In the middle of this new video, after Nawi says that he turns people over to the Palestinian Authority, but before he is asked what happens to such people next, there is a cut, and suddenly the time stamp registers a six-minute long gap. Were there two – or three – hidden cameras? I doubt it. Did Nawi repeat the same words with exactly the same inflection after fifteen minutes, then after another six minutes, or on other occasions altogether? I doubt that as well. Only the speaker, whose mouth is invisible in both versions, connects the visuals. At the end of the new 30-second clip you can finally glimpse his mouth and it is smiling. Is Ezra's 'vicious smile' (in the words of the Jewish Press) the reason that the conversation was attached to these visuals and not to others?" (Olin 2016) Olin, Margaret (18 January 2016). "Ezra Nawi, Ta'ayush, and 30 seconds of video". Touching Photographs. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
Steckner 2010 writes that his peculiar combination of qualities – gay, tradesman, Jewish yet of Arabic background, dark-skinned rather than bearing a white complexion – marks him out from the middle-class, intellectual Ashkenazis who make up much of the Israeli activist movement, and confounds all of the usual attributes on all sides. (cf. "Doch anders als viele seiner israelischen Mitstreiterinnen ist der offen homosexuelle Aktivist kein weißer Aschkenazi aus bildungsbürgerlichem Hause, sondern Mizrahi, Jude arabischen Ursprungs und Klempner von Beruf. Mit dieser Mischung aus Eigenschaften durchkreuzt er die gängigen Zuschreibungen auf allen Seiten.") Steckner, Anne (19 November 2010). "Stein auf Stein: Ein Tag in der Westbank zwischen erbosten Siedlerinnen, organisierten Bauern und desorientiertem Militär". ak (in German). No. 555. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
Shulman 2013: "Although the settlers are invariably the spearhead of such attacks, the occupation system as a whole is geared towards dispossession. Under Israeli law, ownership of a field which is not cultivated for three years reverts to the state; Palestinian farmers have, at best, intermittent access to their lands, because of the settler attacks. Our job is to help them in the never-ending micro-struggle for each olive tree, each well, each scraggly, thorny patch on the hill." Shulman, David D. (June 2013). "Truth and Lies in South Hebron". Jewish Quarterly. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018.
McGirk 2009 refers to the same incident. It took place a day after settlers from Susia had tried to drive out a local Palestinian family off their land by poisoning their well with a dead dog. Nawi and other Ta'ayush activists protected them as they drew water. McGirk, Tim (15 August 2009). "Ezra Nawi: Jewish Pacifist Facing Jail for Aiding Arabs". Time. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
DiLandro 2009. DiLandro, Dan (20 August 2009). "Citizen Nawi". Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO). Archived from the original on 29 December 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
