Shabtay Bendet

Shabtay Bendet is a former settler who previously covered the settlements for Walla! News, and headed Peace Now’s former Settlement Watch team.

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Israeli settlers attack activists from the Faz3a campaign and other groups, as well as farmers, to prevent them from picking their olive trees near an Israeli outpost of the settlement Shilo, on lands belonging to the Palestinian town of Turmus Ayya, West Bank, October 25, 2022. (Anne Paq/Activestills)
How settlers justify their pogroms
Believing the Israeli army isn't doing its job, and forgoing pragmatic strategies of the past, settlers are increasingly taking violence into their own hands.
By Shabtay Bendet July 17, 2023
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