(June 25, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
Naomi Kahn, director of the International Division of the Israeli NGO Regavim, challenged the United Nations\u2019 reporting on alleged settler violence in Judea and Samaria during a panel discussion at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem this week.<\/p>\n
Speaking Monday on a panel about developments in Judea and Samaria, Kahn said Regavim had spent more than a year analyzing the raw data used by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to compile reports on settler violence.<\/p>\n
According to Kahn, those reports have served as the basis for sanctions imposed by several governments on Israeli individuals, organizations and military units.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we found was that the data was provided in a very, very particular fashion \u2026 and it is, in short, a modern blood libel,\u201d Kahn said. \u201cNinety-five percent or more of the incidents that are reported as settler violence by the United Nations itself either didn\u2019t involve settlers, didn\u2019t involve violence, or didn\u2019t happen in Judea and Samaria.\u201d<\/p>\n
As an example, Kahn said OCHA categorizes every legal, peaceful visit by non-Muslims to Jerusalem\u2019s Temple Mount as \u201cstorming Al-Aqsa\u201d and includes those visits in its database of \u201csettler violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also said the paving of roads in Judea and Samaria by the Israeli government for use by all residents is recorded as trespass or expropriation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very clear manipulation of events, and the United Nations will not tell you what they\u2019re really reporting on,\u201d Kahn said.<\/p>\n
She further cited testimony from the head of the Israel Police\u2019s Judea and Samaria Division, who she said told Regavim that \u201cthe vast majority\u201d of reported incidents never occurred.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are reported as cases of settler violence in order to keep the entire system busy,\u201d Kahn said. \u201cThis is a system that\u2019s been perfected by the Palestinian Authority over years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Regavim\u2019s findings are detailed in a report titled \u201cFalse Flags and Real Agendas: \u2018Settler Violence,\u2019 a Modern-Day Blood Libel,\u201d which examines the data underlying international reports on violence in Judea and Samaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(June 25, 2026 \/ JNS) Naomi Kahn, director of the International Division of the Israeli NGO Regavim, challenged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-509927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}