Confronting Settler Violence: Israel's Moral Authority at Stake

Israeli officials must publicly denounce, arrest, and prosecute Jewish settlers who have been killing Palestinians in the West Bank to dissociate the Israeli government from these killings and demonstrate a commitment to protecting innocent Palestinians. Failure to do so risks the world concluding that Israel endorses or tolerates these killings, eroding its moral authority and drawing moral equivalences between Israel and Hamas. The violence by settlers has intensified since Hamas' attack, with over 120 Palestinians killed and 800 forcibly expelled from their homes.