Israeli settlers set fire to St. George Greek Orthodox Monastery and the Christian cemetery in the Christian village of Taybeh, West Bank.

A little background:

Left out of this neat tale is that the three Palestinians weren’t killed by “violent settlers.” Rather, they were shot by the IDF, which was returning fire as it came under attack by gunmen in the village of al-Mughayyir. But this example of media coverage has long been the norm. And now that sectarian agitprop is mainstream in the United States, activists have started to frame their stories accordingly for a specific U.S. audience on the right, emphasizing that the settlers were persecuting Palestinian Christians. Hence, one such activist posted a video on X claiming that “settlers” were “attacking the Christian village of Taybeh … setting homes on fire and shooting at residents.”

That none of this happened doesn’t matter, clearly. What the world sees, over and over—and is then understandably outraged by—are settlers killing Palestinians with no punitive action by the Israeli government. Instead, the takeaway is that the authorities are either turning a blind eye or, worse, encouraging the violence with nods and winks.

Except that’s a manufactured fiction. A recent Israeli study explains how in detail.

The report, published in April by the Regavim Movement, an Israeli NGO (cofounded by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich long before he entered politics) that focuses on land allocation, is a 125-page deep dive into the extent of the settler violence phenomenon.

Authorities are quick to investigate settlers and quick to indict them, sending to court many cases that then get dismissed. The overwhelming majority of complaints turn out to be false.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/settler-violence-myth Even as it acknowledges that some violence by settlers—at times animated by nationalistic passions—the report shows that in contrast to the cartoonish public image, there is, in fact, very little such violence. Moreover, whatever violence exists, the report goes on to say, it is actively and effectively handled by law enforcement. The reason we do not know this, the report contends, is because of a well-orchestrated and lavishly funded information campaign, which has blown a marginal phenomenon out of proportion to advance a political agenda: the two-state solution. By framing the problem as one of “extremist” settlers victimizing the Palestinians, the solution seems self-evident: Remove the settlers to make room for a Palestinian state.

This campaign brought together a broad coalition of actors, foreign and domestic: boycott, divest, and sanction (BDS) supporters, Palestinian politicians, peace processors, left-wing Israeli members of Knesset, protesters opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a host of “human rights” NGOs, several foreign governments, the Biden administration, the European Union, and the United Nations. The left-leaning press within and outside Israel played an important role, too, in keeping the topic on the agenda, as did some in Israel’s security establishment.

The way the op generally works is that human-rights organizations collect “evidence,” which the United Nations then compiles. Politicians repeat the “evidence” laundered by the United Nations, and the press disseminates it. Then, if there’s still any doubt, videos on social media “prove” it, showing settlers looting, harassing, and assaulting the local Palestinian population—sometimes lethally.

By any measure, the campaign has been successful: Settlers are known the world over as a violent, extremist group who are responsible for keeping the conflict festering. More importantly, the Biden administration weaponized the op to set up a sanctions machine against Israel. Other states have since followed suit. Most recently, on June 10, the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on two Israeli cabinet ministers, Smotrich and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, for “inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.”

The Regavim report uncovers the reality distorted by years of propaganda.

Where does the data come from? Anecdotal evidence aside, the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) maintains an online database of incidents involving settler violence. The database is based on an updated Excel sheet that is not publicly available on the site, but was obtained by Regavim. The Excel sheet “includes 8,332 ‘incidents involving Israeli settlers and other Israeli civilians’ that occurred in the West Bank or Israel (not in Gaza) between January 11, 2016, and April 30, 2023.”

The police or Shin Bet or whoever, watch the settlers commit crimes and if anyone tries to stop the settlers… those are are the people they arrest.

False

Is Mohammed a false prophet ?

Maybe the christian israeli pilots will bomb the hell out of them like they do for the other terrorists that do such.

Typical visceral knee jerk opportunity to smear Jews by filthy light weight jr. propagandists.

As if anyone could even "set fire" to a ruin that Muslims themselves destroyed centuries ago.

I find this hard to believe. 🙄

Hiding behind those smears doesn’t work anymore. Got anything else?

Hit a nerve?

Try again.

No names, no witnesses. Alrighty then.

There is a scary anti semitic under current on free republic.

Thanks for finding the truth about this and sharing it

They do present an interesting psychological study.

Most likely. I can’t believe that Jews would do this.

You are naïve. Most Jews see Christians as prosecutors and enemies through history.

The following describes some of what Christians put up with in the Holy Land at the hand of Jews:

Physical Assault: Christians have been subjected to physical assaults, including spitting.

Vandalism: There have been numerous cases of vandalism targeting churches, monasteries, and cemeteries. This includes graffiti on church walls, stone-throwing, arson, and desecration of Christian imagery.

Desecration: In one instance, a Catholic retreat house was raided, and sacred objects were damaged and replaced with Jewish religious objects.

Verbal Harassment: Christians have reported verbal harassment, creating a feeling of being threatened in their own homes.

Sources: Jerusalem Post, Vatican News, NBC News

Time to bomb someone else?

YES! Mohammed IS a false prophet! Furthermore, Dispensationalism is a heresy.

This is the same thing the powers that be pulled in Malmo, Sweden. The Muslims rioted, then when people banded together to stop them... out came the batons.

It is amazing to me that anyone thinks any government is moral these days. The US government paid our worst adversary to make viruses more lethal and gave them the technology to do it. But the Israeli government, oh, they are pure as the wind driven snow. BS. The Israelis have been pulling this crap since at least the 1980’s.

Annnnd, we believe this, why?

But the Israeli government, oh, they are pure as the wind driven snow.

Why the simplistic extremes ? Why do you hate Israel ?

Dispensationalism is a heresy.

According to whom exactly ?

Completly unacceptable

Most Christians are treated ok. Messianic Jews get it the worst.