Israeli settlers promise another Nakba as Palestinians flee West Bank villages
www.middleeasteye.net
Israeli settler rampages have increased dramatically in intensity and frequency since Hamas launched a multi-pronged assault on southern Israel

(…) Ben Gvir and Smotrich leading the charge

Late last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered into a coalition government with Itamar Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power party and firebrand Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party.

Ben Gvir’s far-right Jewish Power party was founded by Meir Kahane. A far-right rabbi and former MP, he previously led the Kach party, an organisation which was outlawed by Israel after one of its followers gunned down 29 Muslim worshippers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron as they prayed.

Meanwhile, Smotrich, a self-declared “fascist homophobe”, was appointed finance minister and also handed broad authority over civilian issues in the West Bank, enabling him to increase settlement construction and thwart Palestinian development.

Since then, Smotrich has been in charge of civilian affairs in Area C of the occupied West Bank, where Israel has full security and civilian control. (…)

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
      131·
      1 year ago

      Colonists fits way better

      Settlers make it seem like they’re just building their homes in uninhabited places.

    • Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world
      111·
      1 year ago

      Yeah the word “settler” sounds so benign, but displacing human beings and chasing them from their homes is far from benign.

      And I’m not even talking about any of the violence, murder and trauma that’s often involved.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      53·
      1 year ago

      To anyone who’s keeping up with Palestine, settler doesn’t sound like anything but “invading genocidal maniac”, so in that case it’s the appropriate term.

    • roastedDeflator@kbin.socialOP
      210·
      1 year ago

      I wonder why you say this? Anyways, I had the same conversation yesterday, so I hope you won’t mind if I just copy-paste the answer.

      According to the United Nations they are settlers. [link - March 2022]

      “There is today in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 a deeply discriminatory dual legal and political system, that privileges the 700,000 Israeli Jewish settlers living in the 300 illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967

      Also even The Times of Israel calls them settlers
      Palestinian shot dead by settler while harvesting olives in West Bank – report

      So, I think it would be fair to say it is the correct word?