Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps An Anti-Zionist & a Pro-Zionist on “Apartheid Violence” in the West Bank
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Jan 29, 2026 Charlotte Korchack, American-Israeli educator who teaches Israeli and Jewish history. Andrey X, Russian-Israeli journalist who documents West Bank settler and army violence. They debate the surge in settler harassment and tactical violence, the dual legal systems governing settlers and Palestinians, settlement growth and recruitment, and how politics, security claims and law enforcement shape daily life in the occupied West Bank.
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First Shocking Field Experience
- Andrey X described arriving in the West Bank and seeing settlers bring a donkey to plow Palestinian agricultural land, sparking daily confrontations.
- He learned these clashes happened multiple times per day long before the current government and escalated his activism.
State-Backed Fact‑Creating Strategy
- Andrey X says the settler movement uses state resources to create "facts on the ground" that make removal legally and practically difficult.
- He argues the Hilltop Youth are cultivated from troubled local youth and used as a violent vanguard for land capture.
Holiday Prayer Inside A Village
- Andrey recounted settlers celebrating Simchat Torah inside a Palestinian village under army protection while Palestinian residents welcome unarmed Jewish guests.
- He used this to show the "security" rationale is often a pretext for expansion and intimidation.