Surging ‘Jewish terrorism’ in West Bank condemned but goes unpunished
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“Tel Aviv-based INSS reports an increase in settler attacks since the start of the Iran war, along with a rise in 'the severity of the acts'”
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Wikipedia entries describe the Iran war and Israeli-Palestinian conflict but do not mention INSS reporting on settler attacks or their severity. No direct evidence confirms the claim.
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— On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel started a war with surprise airstrikes on sites and cities across Iran, assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other Iranian officials …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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— Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in West Asia. It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the Palestin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine
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— The Twelve-Day War was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025. It began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Day_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Day_War
“Violence by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has reached unprecedented levels since the start of the war with Iran”
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Wikipedia's 'Israeli settler violence' entry confirms systematic violence by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, aligning with the claim's core assertion about violence. However, the specific reference to 'unprecedented levels since the Iran war' is not explicitly addressed in the evidence.
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— The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughl…
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— Palestinians living under what human rights and international organizations term an Israeli apartheid regime face systematic violence from Israeli settlers and the Israel Defense Forces, mainly in the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settler_violence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settler_violence
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— Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the confl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Palestinian_conflict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Palestinian_conflict
“Assaults by violent settlers against Palestinians have been carried out for years, often to the indifference of mainstream Israeli society”
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Wikipedia's 'Israeli settler violence' entry describes systematic assaults by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, supporting the claim about prolonged violence. The reference to an 'Israeli apartheid regime' implies societal indifference, though this is inferred rather than explicitly stated.
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— The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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— Palestinians living under what human rights and international organizations term an Israeli apartheid regime face systematic violence from Israeli settlers and the Israel Defense Forces, mainly in the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settler_violence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settler_violence
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— Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the confl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Palestinian_conflict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Palestinian_conflict
“Reem Cohen, a researcher at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), states 'there has been an increase in acts of Jewish terrorism since the start of the war with Iran'”
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No sources were found to confirm or refute Reem Cohen's claim about INSS reporting on Jewish terrorism incidents. The evidence provided for this claim is explicitly zero.
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