‘Settler violence” has been the subject of a growing international campaign that seeks to equate acts of vandalism, or, really, any action by Jews in the West Bank and Jerusalem—or even their presence there—with murderous terrorism by Palestinians, in an effort to create a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. Democratic Congress members, led by Rep. Jerry Nadler, recently proposed legislation that would codify the Biden administration’s unprecedented sanctions on Israelis allegedly involved in such conduct, and which had set the stage for the Europeans to follow. The agenda behind the Democratic play became clear in late May, when the European Union announced sanctions against six “extremist settler” groups and individuals…The EU designations, parroting the Biden administration, make explicit that the real crime is political: allegedly “undermining the viability of the two-state solution.” READ MORE