How American citizens are leading rise of 'settler violence' on Palestinian lands

[cbabe]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/15/biden-extremist-jewish-settlers-travel-ban-loophole

How American citizens are leading rise of ‘settler violence’ on Palestinian lands

The Biden administration instituted a travel ban on extremist Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians but there is a glaring loophole for US citizens

Chris McGreal in New York
Fri 15 Dec 2023 05.00 EST

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Many of the estimated 60,000 Americans living in the West Bank outside of occupied East Jerusalem moved to settlements for the lifestyle and have little to do with the Palestinians on whose land they live. But a core of ideologically driven US citizens were at the forefront of building religious settlements on land expropriated from Palestinians while others have led the rise of what has been described as “settler terrorism”.

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An American doctor from Brooklyn, Baruch Goldstein, murdered 29 Muslim worshippers in the West Bank city of Hebron in 1994. Goldstein was a follower of another American, Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right religious Kach party that was eventually banned in Israel and the US under anti-terrorism laws.

“If you asked who are the most prominent examples of literally murderous violent settler extremism, the two answers are Goldstein and Kahane. Those people are the prophets of the settler movement,” said Susskind.

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Hirschhorn estimates that another 100,000 American settlers live in occupied East Jerusalem and the settlement blocs immediately around the city. They have been instrumental in the takeover of Arab homes through well-funded settler organisations.

..more… American settlers public relations… powerful politicians…

[erronis]

1. Great reporting, again, from The Guardian.

MIA - the US MSM.

[EarnestPutz]

5. Isn't that the truth? I really wish more Americans read the Guardian and appreciated it's mission. It's the....

......only online news source that I support with a monthly donation.

[erronis]

6. Yup - just this last month I've dropped my NYT and WAPO subscriptions.

While there were still a few worthwhile opinions and articles, the rest of the content just wasn't relevant to me; or worse - perpetuated the both-siderism that these types of outlets promote.

[nature-lover]

2. This is news to me! Thank you for posting.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. This has been happening

fôr a LONG time!

[ancianita]

4. Now what's the State Dept going to do. Passports? Citizenship? Extradition?

Unholy shit!

[erronis]

7. Of course "Americans" exporting their values across the globe

has been going on since there was a place called America and especially since a large part of the North American continent became a nation - and a greedy land-hungry one.

Used to be we'd just send warships and then planes with bombs. Now we export capitalists to infiltrate the local economies.

I come (I think) from a line of Scandinavian invaders of the British Isles who settled down for a bit and then headed off to North America to take advantage. I'm sure the path of my ancestors out of Africa was not more peaceful and idyllic. I shouldn't cast stones and I doubt anyone can look at their place in evolution and think that they are saintly.