The Taybeh municipality said it was filing a civil case in the United States seeking damages in relation to so-called settler violence.

Violence in the “West Bank” is being malevolently misrepresented.

The image of violent settlers has become a powerful weapon in the campaign to portray Israel as a colonial aggressor, while the larger reality of Palestinian terrorism is pushed aside.

The Israeli military says it moved to prevent violence; activists deny acting against Palestinians or soldiers.

The mainstream media and Western power brokers are desperate to establish moral equivalence between the two. But is that fair?

“Calling it ‘settler violence’ is a provocation” which “denies our connection to the land of Israel” and “distracts from constant terrorist attacks against Israelis,” said Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon.

A local security fence in Judea became Washington’s latest excuse to pretend Israeli self-defense is the real obstacle to peace.

When Israelis ask Washington to take action against Jews in Judea and Samaria, they are ignoring the context of Arab terrorism and attempting an end run around democracy.

“The UN’s methodology is unreliable, as it has traditionally counted as ‘settler violence’ even incidents of self-defense by Jews,” international law expert Eugene Kontorovich told JNS.