Former Israeli leaders threaten court action over state-backed ‘Jewish terrorism’ in West Bank

Dozens of Israel’s most senior former political, military, intelligence, legal and cultural figures have threatened to take Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to court unless it acts to “eradicate Jewish terrorism” in the occupied West Bank, warning that settler and military violence against Palestinians is being enabled to advance an “ethnic cleansing” agenda and future annexation. In an extraordinary “final warning” to the Israeli government and security establishment, the signatories accused Israeli officials of allowing Jewish extremists to carry out murder, sexual assault, theft, arson and desecration of the dead with “almost complete impunity”. They warned that the campaign of violence breaks Israeli and international law, threatens Israel’s security, deepens its global isolation and fuels anti-Semitism worldwide.   “This letter is […]