Thread by @jvplive

In recent months, there has been an increase in Israeli settler violence towards Palestinians. In the media, these horrific and racist attacks are often attributed to “violent mobs." This term fails to capture these attacks organized + premeditated nature

washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

Right wing groups like Lehava and Hilltop Youth are organized cells that plan these attacks, ranging from burning land to tagging racist slogans to brutal physical assault. These groups technically act independently of the government, but they do not act alone.

They have the explicit endorsement of the Israeli state because they help further the government’s goals of ethnic cleansing. Israeli security forces even go so far as to provide protection for settlers and right wing groups to terrorize Palestinians.

Knowing that there is an inherent link between these purportedly "random violent mobs" and the organized systems of power in Israel is crucial to understanding how Israel enacts every day violence against Palestinians to further their goals of colonization.