Israeli police have arrested 10 members of the extremist group Lehava which has been linked to last month's attack on a Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem.
The attack, which incited violence against Arabs, sparked a wave of condemnation and came after months of unrest in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
The suspects were arrested at their homes in the Israeli towns of Petah Tikva and Netivot, as well as in Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Police, who also seized computers, said in a statement they had been detained "following incitement and calls for racist acts of violence and terror".
Among those held was Lehava leader Bentzi Gopstein, who lives in the West Bank city of Hebron.
His lawyer, Itamar Ben Gvir, said the arrests were political.
"The police are acting against Lehava even though it's a legal organisation fighting against assimilation," he said, accusing the "left" of pressuring the police into making arrests.
Left-wing MPs have demanded that Lehava be banned as a "terrorist organisation".
Three Lehava members were arrested last week on suspicion of setting fire to a classroom at the Hand-in-Hand school, which is a rare symbol of coexistence in Jerusalem.
The classroom was badly damaged and slogans, including Death To Arabs and There's No Coexistence With Cancer, were scrawled on the walls in Hebrew.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among those who condemned the attack at the 624-pupil school, which is situated on the Green Line separating west Jerusalem from the annexed eastern sector.
It came after a series of attacks on Jews, including cars ploughing into groups of pedestrians and an assault on a synagogue in which four worshippers and a policeman were killed.
Lehava activists follow the teachings of the late Meir Kahana, a virulently anti-Arab rabbi whose Kach party was banned in Israel.
In 1994 one Kahana follower, Baruch Goldstein, massacred 29 Muslim worshippers at a Hebron mosque.
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