The Paramilitary Behind the Pogroms: How Israel's "Settlers" Are Organized, Armed, and State-Backed Engines of Ethnic Cleansing

Amnesty International's 149-page report confirming state-led ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is the latest evidence of what Palestinians have documented for years: Israeli settlers are not civilians. They are a state-armed, IDF-trained paramilitary force carrying out organized pogroms, land theft, and agricultural destruction — all backed by Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, and full Israeli government machinery.