{"id":12510,"date":"2026-06-21T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/?post_type=article&#038;p=12510"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:24:27","slug":"settler-violence-is-fabricated-to-punish-political-opponents","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/settler-violence-is-fabricated-to-punish-political-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Settler Violence&#8221; is Fabricated to Punish Political Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSettler violence\u201d has been the subject of a growing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/joint-statement-on-recent-israeli-decisions-extending-unlawful-israeli-control-over-the-west-bank-non-un-document\/\">international<\/a>&nbsp;campaign that seeks to equate acts of vandalism, or, really, any action by Jews in the West Bank and Jerusalem\u2014or even their presence there\u2014with murderous terrorism by Palestinians, in an effort to create a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Congress members, led by Rep. Jerry Nadler, recently proposed legislation that would codify the Biden administration\u2019s unprecedented sanctions on Israelis allegedly involved in such conduct, and which had set the stage for the Europeans to follow. The agenda behind the Democratic play became clear in late May, when the European Union announced sanctions against six \u201cextremist settler\u201d groups and individuals. Though the announcement repeatedly mentioned \u201cviolence,\u201d none of those sanctioned is accused of anything resembling it. Instead, some of them were targeted for \u201cinstitut[ing] legal proceedings and lobbies\u201d against illegal Palestinian construction and destruction of antiquities in the West Bank. Others were sanctioned for building homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria. The EU designations, parroting the Biden administration, make&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeas.europa.eu\/eeas\/eu-sanctions-extremist-settlers-and-entities-undermining-two-state-solution_en\">explicit<\/a>&nbsp;that the real crime is political: allegedly \u201cundermining the viability of the two-state solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration\u2019s and the European Union\u2019s policy deliberately mixes together criminal acts (real or manufactured) by a small number of Israelis against Palestinians\u2014acts that are both inseparable from and numerically overwhelmed by acts of terrorism by Palestinians\u2014with political opposition to the Democrats\u2019 and the Europeans\u2019 preferred political vision of a \u201ctwo-state solution.\u201d In doing so, the policy attempts to use the actions of some Israelis to criminalize perfectly legitimate and legal political opposition by entirely&nbsp;<em>different<\/em>&nbsp;Israelis to the \u201ctwo-state solution,\u201d which, incidentally, has little traction among either Israelis or Palestinians. It\u2019s an old political debating tactic that the Europeans are trying to legitimize under the cover of \u201copposing violence.\u201d By the same measure, as the European Union is full of Palestinians and their supporters who oppose the existence of Israel\u2014an existing state\u2014that would make their views criminal too. Unless the only criminals are those who oppose the existence of a state that doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of those who have been targeted by the Biden sanctions took legal action, and recently the Justice Department settled two lawsuits: one brought by two people sanctioned by the Biden administration,&nbsp;<em>Pilant et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury et al<\/em>., and another,&nbsp;<em>Texans for Israel et al v. U.S. Department of the Treasury et al.<\/em>, by people claiming they would likely be targeted because of their opposition to the \u201ctwo-state solution.\u201d Sure enough, some of the plaintiffs in that case have since been sanctioned by the European Union, Canada, and other countries on precisely these grounds. We helped represent these individuals, and their stories both highlight the problems with the whole \u201csettler violence\u201d narrative and expose its weaponization through sanctions as nothing but the targeting of Jews\u2014including Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Department of Justice settlement acknowledges that two plaintiffs, Levi Yitzhak Pilant and Issachar Manne, are U.S. citizens. That alone underscores the outrageous broadness of the Biden administration\u2019s sanctions; by its own terms, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2024\/02\/05\/2024-02354\/imposing-certain-sanctions-on-persons-undermining-peace-security-and-stability-in-the-west-bank\">executive order<\/a>&nbsp;creating the sanctions ostensibly applied only to \u201cforeign persons.\u201d Even more scandalously, the government based its designations on reports from far-left and pro-Palestinian nongovernmental organizations. Prominent among those is Dawn MENA, which was founded by the late Saudi Islamist operative Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 and is funded by the same foundations that back pro-Palestinian and leftist revolutionary activism in the United States and left-wing NGOs in Israel that are central to feeding the \u201csettler violence\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the Biden administration, Dawn MENA would&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DAWNmenaorg\/status\/1828229170477822332\">publicly accuse<\/a>&nbsp;individuals of \u201csettler violence,\u201d submit uncorroborated \u201cevidence\u201d to the State and Treasury Departments, and demand they impose sanctions;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/2021-2025.state.gov\/sanctions-on-israeli-entity-and-individual\/\">days later<\/a>&nbsp;these individuals would magically find themselves sanctioned. A remarkable example of this pipeline can be seen in the Biden administration\u2019s sanctions order, which even misspelled Pilant\u2019s name the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dawnmena.org\/us-sanction-israeli-mk-sukkot-security-officer-yitzhak-filant-and-yitzhar-settlement-leadership-for-promoting-violence-against-palestinian-civilians\/\">same way<\/a>&nbsp;Dawn did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our clients\u2019 experiences illustrate how the \u201csettler violence\u201d narrative makes lawful actions sound like ethnic cleansing. The Biden administration accused Pilant of leading \u201ca group of armed settlers to set up roadblocks and conduct patrols to pursue and attack Palestinians in their lands and forcefully expel them from their lands.\u201d In reality, Pilant, a captain in active reserve duty in the Israel Defense Forces, was mobilized after the Oct. 7 massacre to defend Jewish communities. The roadblocks and vehicle inspections were standard procedure by the army to prevent much-feared follow-up attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Issachar Manne was sanctioned for seizing \u201cpastureland belonging to the Palestinian community.\u201d Yet the government never established that the land was privately owned by Palestinians. In fact, Manne\u2019s farm sat on land leased from the World Zionist Organization, within his settlement\u2019s municipal borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reut Ben Haim, a young mother of eight, is not even a settler. She was sanctioned for organizing demonstrations against sending supplies into Gaza during the war, because they would be diverted by Hamas. Her husband, an American citizen, also had his finances frozen and is a plaintiff in the Texas case. Before sanctioning her, the Biden administration described this as \u201cprotest activity.\u201d The settlement in her case makes clear that she was not sanctioned for her involvement in any violent activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration\u2019s play was designed to open the floodgates of European and other Western sanctions. In turn, the European sanctions, which are even worse, are themselves a dress rehearsal for what we can expect under a future Democratic administration in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the sanctioned organizations, Regavim\u2014also a plaintiff in the Texas case\u2014has been exposing the European Union\u2019s role in promoting violations of the Oslo Accords by sponsoring the ongoing Palestinian land grab in Area C, the area left under full Israeli control by those agreements. Regavim\u2019s research and whistleblowing activity, it turns out, is&nbsp;<em>also&nbsp;<\/em>considered settler violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regavim\u2019s work forensically documents how the \u201csettler violence\u201d sausage is made, thereby clarifying the function not only of leftist NGOs in Israel, but also of groups like Dawn MENA in the United States. The production cycle goes like this: A deceptive NGO report becomes a settled account, trumpeted by human-rights organizations that are themselves funded by the European Union. Reporters and international bodies cite the NGOs without independent corroboration. Policymakers cite the resulting consensus. The European states that funded the NGOs making the claims then impose sanctions accordingly. What passes for evidence is often nothing more than a chain of ideological citations. And when a handful of these stories were finally forced to address facts, the narrative fell apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take the case of Amana, a company that has built tens of thousands of homes throughout Judea and Samaria for decades. The Biden administration made sure to sanction Amana on its way out, two weeks after it lost the election in November 2024. As justification, it cited Amana providing a loan to Manne, whom it had sanctioned in August of that year. Another justification was that \u201cthe settlers and farms that Amana supports play a key role in developing settlements in the West Bank, from which in turn settlers commit violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the Biden administration\u2019s lead, last month the European Union&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2026\/05\/28\/extremist-israeli-settlers-eu-lists-four-entities-and-three-individuals\/\">sanctioned<\/a>&nbsp;Amana for \u201cinitiating, financing, and facilitating at least 30 violent outposts and settlements.\u201d The word&nbsp;<em>violent<\/em>&nbsp;in that sentence is doing Herculean work. What makes an outpost \u201cviolent\u201d? Amana pours concrete and lays roads. But under the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/page\/settler-related-violence\">definitions<\/a>&nbsp;used by the United Nations, anything from exercising self-defense to an individual committing petty theft is classified as violence. This then allows the European Union to state with a straight face that Amana \u201cfacilitated violent outposts\u201d without identifying a single act of violence that Amana directed, funded, or encouraged. This is not a legal standard. It is a word game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on spurious accusations and bogus legal reasoning, the Biden administration, and now the European Union, turned the very idea of Jews living in the West Bank into a sanctionable offense and an inherent violation of Palestinian human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Criminal and political violence\u2014typically vandalism and property crime\u2014directed at Palestinians by Israeli Jews (not necessarily settlers) in the West Bank does exist. It is both wrong and rare. Israel\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/idf-chief-settler-violence-unacceptable-results-in-extraordinary-strategic-damage\/\">leaders<\/a>&nbsp;and rabbis condemn it categorically, in contrast with the Palestinian Authority, which pays pensions to its terrorists. The clearance rate on such incidents is low, but that is also true of property crime in U.S. and European cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our lawsuit alleged that while the sanctions were facially neutral\u2014aimed at any perpetrators of violence in the West Bank\u2014they were applied discriminatorily, exclusively targeting Jews. The settlement agreement states that the government will not \u201ctarget private organizations and Israeli citizens living in the West Bank,\u201d a hint that this is exactly what Democrats have done and want to do again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Framing settler violence as a crisis worthy of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/protect.checkpoint.com\/v2\/r01\/___https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/denmark-france-greece-slovenia-and-the-united-kingdom-strongly-condemn-the-unprecedented-rise-in-settler-violence-against-palestinian-civilians-in-the-west-bank-and-east-jerusalem\/___.YXAzOnRhYmxldDpjOm9mZmljZTM2NV9lbWFpbHNfYXR0YWNobWVudDpkZTg4Y2ZkNTVkMTBjOGNlMGIxYTBjZmYxZDg0ZjlhNzo3OjU3ZjE6ZjY5NmI1NzE3NDIwYjVhZTkzYzc5NDE3MmMwZjE3YTdjNGI1YTcyMzkxNTJlMDc3NThmZDViYWFiYTk2ZGIwMDpwOlQ6Tg\">global concern<\/a>&nbsp;reinforces a narrative of predatory fundamentalist Jews dispossessing Palestinians. The low level of criminal activity by Jews in Judea and Samaria is a domestic Israeli law enforcement matter and should be treated as such. Thankfully, the Trump administration recognizes this. In the Justice Department\u2019s settlement agreement, the government declares that it \u201ccategorically rejects any policy that would infringe upon Israel\u2019s sovereignty.\u201d Using such language to discuss measures relating to the West Bank is, in fact, a quiet but potentially significant policy change that should be celebrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Written in collaboration with <strong>Mark Goldfeder<\/strong>, CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center and a law professor at Touro Law School.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(First appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/israel-middle-east\/articles\/settler-violence-tool-sanctioning-jews\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/israel-middle-east\/articles\/settler-violence-tool-sanctioning-jews\">Tablet Magazine <\/a>&#8220;How \u2018Settler Violence\u2019 Became a Tool for Sanctioning Jews&#8221;, June 16, 2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSettler violence\u201d has been the subject of a growing&nbsp;international&nbsp;campaign that seeks to equate acts of vandalism, or, really, any action by Jews in the West Bank and Jerusalem\u2014or even their presence there\u2014with murderous terrorism by Palestinians, in an effort to create a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. 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