Thursday, December 28, 2023

The Jewish settlers 'living the American dream' in the West Bank

"US-born settlers are "overrepresented" in the West Bank, Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a historian and a political analyst working as a visiting professor at Israel's University of Haifa, said.

She told BI there's a higher proportion of residents with American roots in the West Bank settlements than in Israel proper — about 15% versus 1%."

The Jewish settlers 'living the American dream' in the West Bank

Dec 28, 2023

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"According to 2015 research by Hirschhorn for Oxford University, an estimated 60,000 American Jews lived in West Bank settlements.

Hirschhorn said that these figures didn't count suburban neighborhoods of Jerusalem over the Green Line and the number could be much higher."

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"Dror Sadot, a spokesperson for B'Tselem, a Jerusalem nonprofit addressing human-rights violations in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, told BI that all settlements in the territories were illegal under international law but that Israeli law distinguished between legal and illegal settlements.

Sadot said settlers were exploiting Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza to complete their goal of dominating the West Bank"

...READ MORE  https://www.businessinsider.com/60000-american-jews-live-in-west-bank-settlements

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