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Why They Lie About ‘Jewish Terrorists’
Liel Leibovitz
March 29, 2026

…It’s an effective fairytale, in large part because the people it cast as its ogres—Jews living in their ancestral homeland of Judea and Samaria—have been derided for decades as bearded zealots committed to nothing but savagery, racism, and violence against their peaceable neighbors. But are the accusations true? And, if not, why are we seeing so many of them pop up? The first question is easy enough to answer. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has generated a cottage industry of NGOs, journalists, activists, advocates, and other interested parties, which means we’ve got great data on just about everything that happens in the narrow strip of land between the river and the sea. If violent settlers were running amuck perpetrating pogroms, we’d immediately see their crimes recorded. READ MORE