The query of settlements has loomed over the Israeli-Palestinian battle for many years, and has solely intensified prior to now yr. In accordance with a UN report, since October 7, 2023, there was a report surge in settlement actions and elevated settler violence towards Palestinians. Immediately on the present: how the settlement motion grew from a small non secular mission to one of many central tenets of the present Israeli authorities. It is a story that intersects with different matters we have lined in our sequence referring to this battle – the historical past of Hamas, the rise of the Israeli proper wing, Hezbollah, and Zionism.
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Friends:
Khaled Elgindy, Senior Fellow and Director of Program on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs on the Center East Institute
Sara Yael Hirschhorn, Visiting Professor on the College of Haifa and writer of Metropolis on a Hilltop, American Jews and the Israeli Settler Motion
Gideon Aran, Professor Emeritus of sociology and anthropology on the Hebrew College, Jerusalem
Avi Shlaim, Israeli-British historian and writer of the guide The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
Diana Buttu, Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Group
