Always pay attention to the use of words and terms as part of the semantic wars.
For example:
Settler attacks on Palestinian spike, reflecting Israel's systemic failure by Amos Harel in Haaretz, Nov. 19, 2021
Shall we review the use of "spike"?
Spike in Israeli settler attacks serves Bennett government policy: Terrorize Palestinians and take more land on Otober 18, 2021.
On January 28, 2021, we read: Spike in settler violence backed and encouraged by state and on April 14, 2021, the UN 'says': Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians spike to 210 so far this year. And on February 2020, a year earlier, the EU spoke out against Israeli settler spike.
Back in the Fall of 2012, you could have read in an academic article of "The spike in assaults on Palestinians".
Given that "spike" means a sharp increase in the magnitude or concentration of something, obviously, there is usually a reason for that increase and it behooves those who use it to explain why. Or even prove there is an actual spike.
That, I fear, would then defeat the whole purpose of emplying the term "spike" for it is used more as a scare tactic than anything else.
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