Settler Violence

'Settler violence’ in Israel should be referred to instead as criminal activity - opinion

To describe criminal activity as “settler violence” blurs the line between isolated crime and collective guilt and creates a false narrative of widespread Jewish aggression.

 A PROTEST takes place at the entrance to Jerusalem in 2022, calling for justice for Ahuvia Sandak. The 16-year-old was killed in a car crash during a chase by police.
 Jewish settlers at the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Ramat Migron, on September 8, 2023.

Court charges Jewish father, son with breaking in, assaulting Palestinian family in West Bank

 Defense Minister Israel Katz at a session with military officials to discuss the issue of far Right settler violence against the IDF, July 1, 2025.

Katz: Those engaged in violence against IDF soldiers must be 'dealt with severely'

 Israeli security forces guard as Jews tour in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 28, 2025.

IDF soldiers recieve death threats, called Nazis during Binyamin riots


Editor's Notes: I raise my family on these hilltops, yet I refuse to justify extremists - comment

The perfectly normal rhythms of life in Judea and Samaria have been drowned out this week by the crack of gunfire and the smell of burning tires.

 A Palestinian man stands next to a burnt car after an attack by Israeli settlers in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, June 26, 2025.

Jewish violence in the West Bank is a moral and strategic liability for Israel - analysis

While the numbers can be debated – depending on who is doing the reporting and what is being reported – wider trends are harder to deny.

 Israeli security forces guard as Jews tour in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 28, 2025

Jewish rioters attack IDF soldiers in West Bank, at least six arrested

The source said that IDF soldiers were beaten and even choked by the rioters, with several soldiers and an officer lightly wounded by the end of the incident.

 IDF soldiers are seen operating in the Binyamin region of the West Bank, March 27, 2025

Fact, fiction, or both: A closer look at settler violence in the West Bank

SETTLEMENT AFFAIRS: A new report from right-wing organization Regavim explores instances of supposed settler violence in the West Bank.

 A NEW REPORT by NGO Regavim analyzes the UN database which documents violent incidents in Judea and Samaria. Here, a Palestinian man looks towad Israeli flags placed over a Palestinian house after an incident with Israeli settlers in Bruqin village near Salfit, in the West Bank last month.

New proxy sanction war? New UK sanctions assault Jewish values and identity - opinion

The UK's sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are an ideological attack on Jewish sovereignty and values shared with America.

 BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office earlier this year alongside British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and US Vice President JD Vance.

How the West distorts Israel's reality with false narratives of settler violence - opinion

The global campaign to demonize Israel through "settler violence" is not just a lie—it’s a political weapon used to justify actions against Israel’s government.

THE SANCTIONS imposed on Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (right) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir are galling, and the accusation of ‘settler violence’ is false, the writer argues.

Israeli Finance Minister says banks should not obey EU sanctions on settlers

The Religious Zionist Party chair urged banks not to obey EU sanctions in the name of "a national moral injustice."

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Crowd of masked men set Duma houses alight, injure several Palestinians

IDF, Israel Police, and Border Police personnel arrived at the scene, causing the masked men to flee.

 View of cars and a house of Palestinians that was burned during the night by unknown attackers, in the village of Duma, in the West Bank, May 12, 2024; illustrative.

Masked settlers attack Masafer Yatta, leaving several seriously injured

Masked settlers attacked a village in the Masafer Yatta area for the second time in a week, leaving several people injured.

 Masked men armed with clubs and guns approach a village in Masafer Yatta in the south-eastern West Bank, March 29, 2025.

Hilltop youth torch vehicles, vandalize garage in West Bank villages

A group of Israeli settlers torched five cars and destroyed a garage in Umm Safah, an Arab village near Ramallah.

 A man looks at destroyed vehicles, as Palestinians assess damage at the scene after what they said was an Israeli settler attack, at their village of Um Safa near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, March 11, 2025.

Israeli settlers wound Palestinians in attack in village near Bethlehem

The IDF said that four Palestinians were injured in the incident, while the Palestinian Red Crescent claims that 16 were injured.

Israeli settlers in Burqa near Ramallah in the West Bank October 20, 2024.