Settler violence IS Israeli violence
JVL Introduction
Settler violence in the West Bank is on the rise and carried out with virtual immunity; indeed, all too often Palestinians under attack are much more likely to be arrested than the Jewish Israeli perpetrators. As we posted yesterday, the USA used its veto to stop a vote condemning settler violence. That summarised the reality and outlined the geopolitical reasons for the USA’s ongoing support of Israel, despite its innumerable violations of international law. This article tells us in stomach churning detail about the reality of settler attacks for Palestinians under attack and activists trying to support them. A key point is that the Israeli Army =, at best, does nothing but is more likely to facilitate and protect the attackers. This is all part of the strategy of expansion and de facto annexation.
Just imagine trying to live under these circumstances and trying to keep yourself and your family safe from attack and from arrest and incarceration with all that means. Meanwhile the Israeli Knesset have just approved 19 more settlements, despite this being against international law. Furthermore, the leaders are clear that part of the aim of the expansion is to make a future Palestinian State impossible.
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This article was originally published by Ha'aretz on Mon 22 Dec 2025. Read the original here.
There's No Such Thing as Settler Violence. It's Israeli Violence
The violence against Palestinians is the implementation of a long-established policy of ethnic cleansing that doesn’t begin and end with ‘extremist settlers’ or Israel’s ‘far-right government’
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Disgraceful.
The UK and Canada should immediately end their respective free trade agreements with Israel, end all military equipment, including guns and ammunition immediately and suspend all diplomatic ties with Israel.
The invaders must grant full citizenship to Palestinians, birthright citizenship, equal under the same, constitutional law. Theocracy is untenable.