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Kiswani said on X that pro-Israel groups had been inciting people to target her.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

"Your wife's brother," he said aloud, "Mr. Markelov, has been seized by the peasants whom he had been inciting to rebellion, and is now under arrest in the governor's house."

From Virgin Soil by Townsend, R. S.

The Mullahs, or priests, had been inciting the tribesmen to insurrection; and one especially, who was called the Mad Mullah, had gone about from tribe to tribe, stirring the people up.

From Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti by Paget, Walter

She had been inciting her son all the time to undertake wonderful salvage work by annexing the heiress of Henry Allègre—the woman and the fortune.

From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Conrad, Joseph