The hysteria raging through international media channels over violence in Judea and Samaria (otherwise known as the West Bank) has reached new heights. The genocide accusation has shifted, now that the war in Gaza has receded from view, and the campaign against settler violence has taken its place. The key here is the logic of justification: the accusations don’t come as neutral claims, but come with threats, consequences, and punishments to be meted out against Israel. On Aug. 29, David D. Kirkpatrick The New Yorker published an article by David D. Kirkpatrick with a strange proposition: since Israeli settlements are thwarting the establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state, and violent Israeli settlers are allegedly seeking to ethnically cleanse Palestinians, the only option is to evict hundreds of thousands of settlers. In other words, Israelis are ethnically cleansing Palestinians; therefore, the Israelis should be ethnically cleansed. READ MORE