Racist slogans were sprayed over gravestones in an old Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, site of a dispute between Palestinians and supporters of a museum being built alongside.

Racist slogans were sprayed over gravestones in an old Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, site of a dispute between Palestinians and supporters of a museum being built alongside, police said on Thursday.

The graffiti on 15 tombs read "price tag" and "death to the Arabs."

‘Israeli’ Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said that "the slogans were painted several weeks ago" and had not yet been erased by municipal authorities.

Hardline Jewish settlers have adopted what they call a "price tag" policy  - a euphemism for revenge attacks against Palestinians and their property following Zionist government measures against settlements.

In recent months, the scope of such attacks has broadened, with vandals targeting IOF army vehicles, mosques and cemeteries inside the Occupied Territories and ‘Israeli’ anti-settlement activists.

On Wednesday, police said they had arrested a suspect in a graffiti attack and bomb hoax at the Jerusalem offices of Zionist settlement watchdog Peace Now on Sunday, in which a wall was daubed with the words "price tag".