15% of West Bank settlers are Americans, new research finds

[Little Tich]

Source: Times of Israel

Approximately 60,000 US Jews have established their homes across the Green Line

Fifteen percent of West Bank settlers are American citizens. According to an Oxford University professor, approximately 60,000 American Jews live in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Haaretz reported Thursday.

“This provides hard evidence that this constituency is strikingly over-represented, both within the settler population itself and within the total population of Jewish American immigrants in Israel,” Sara Yael Hirschhorn, the author of the forthcoming book “City on a Hilltop: Jewish-American Settlers in the Occupied Territories Since 1967,” said during a presentation at Jerusalem’s Limmud conference, Haaretz reported.

The book will be published by Harvard University Press next year.

An estimated 170,000 American immigrants and their children live in Israel, according to Haaretz.

Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/15-of-west-bank-settlers-are-americans-new-research-finds/

[Israeli]

1. Wow ...breaking news ....

“This provides hard evidence that this constituency is strikingly over-represented, both within the settler population itself and within the total population of Jewish American immigrants in Israel,” Sara Yael Hirschhorn, the author of the forthcoming book “City on a Hilltop: Jewish-American Settlers in the Occupied Territories Since 1967,” said during a presentation at Jerusalem’s Limmud conference, Haaretz reported.

Most of our Right wing voters are either religious Americans or secular Russians .

[geek tragedy]

2. Aren't the Sephardi also rightwing? nt

[Israeli]

3. common term here is Mizrahi ....

yes ...not all of them tho .

See : http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-ethnic-tensions-helped-fuel-netanyahus-victory/

[oberliner]

4. Staggering levels of ignorance about Israel

Amazing that people who understand Israel only through an American prism think they can apply the rightwing/leftwing continuum to Israel in the same way that they can in the United States.

[shira]

6. Through an American prism, it would be difficult to find any secular liberal Palestinians...

...in the territories who believe in & advocate true progressive values like equal rights for women & gays, free speech, tolerance, secularism, etc.

Any Palestinians living within Israel who believe in these values (and there are many) are considered Zionist RIGHTWINGERS by Israel's most hostile anti-Zionist critics within the reactionary BDS movement....because they're not maniacally anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah, etc.

Ironically enough, those most hostile to Israel who cry about rightwingery turn out to be quite sympathetic to the most unhinged fascist demagoguery in that part of the world.

[geek tragedy]

7. So you're saying the Likud voters are not rightwing? nt

[shira]

8. Name some progressive Palestinians you support who aren't fascists

In fact, name one.

When you cannot do so, and we all know you won't be able to, you need to stop with these stale, Right/Left bogus I/P talking points of yours. Or else get ready to be called out on this bullshit each and every time.

[Israeli]

11. I dont understand ....

......what he is trying to say either geek tragedy.

How does he expect you to learn anything if you cant ask a simple question ????

[oberliner]

5. Wow - xenophobic much?

Religious Americans and secular Russians, eh?

[King_David]

9. Everything is race and ethnicity to you

Israelis are all divided into small race or religious or ethnic groups?

Wow !

This is an American and Democratic Party supporting board , we don't pigeon hole people by their backgrounds, race , ethnicity or sexual orientation.... My advice to you ... Get off the small town kibbutz and go to Tel Aviv and learn about the melting pot that is modern Israel .....

[Israeli]

12. Yup we are King_David.....

...like oberliner says ...you should not compare us with the United States.

Actually just spent a few days with my daughter in Tel Aviv ....next week I will be in Jerusalem .
I'm retired ....so spend a lot of time travelling around now.

How much time have you spent travelling around my country on your tourist trips ....???

[King_David]

15. I have spent lots of time living and touring around in the Country my grandparents were born,

[shira]

10. Why do u think secular Russians are fed up with the reactionary anti-Imperialist Left?

[Little Tich]

13. For me, the OP was significant because it made me realize that there are 60.000 racist Americans

who are actively promoting apartheid by their choice of residence. It's like finding a secret KKK chapter with 60.000 active members in Vermont or something - very unexpected.

This is an American problem, and these people are not just a small handful.

[azurnoir]

14. actually I'm surprised it isn't higher

and BTW Meir Kahane was an American too

[Little Tich]

16. I must admit that I hadn't connected the dots until I read the OP.

I have no problem with Americans moving to Israel for any reason of their choosing, but illegally settling occupied lands on the backs of the invading military forces is wrong, and shouldn't be allowed. I know also that some of the illegal settlers are EU citizens and that the EU is trying to discourage them from living in the occupied territories, although personally, I don't think cutting pensions for Holocaust survivors is the right way to go.