{"id":570163,"date":"2026-08-01T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/570163\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:50:10","slug":"israeli-lawyer-advocates-killing-palestinians-to-bbc-as-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/570163\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli lawyer advocates killing Palestinians to BBC as revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli citizen told a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-892721\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> reporter he believed hundreds of residents of nearby Palestinian villages should be killed in response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-903540\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deadly shooting<\/a> that killed two Israelis, including an IDF officer, the BBC reported on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a video published by the BBC, Yehuda Shimon, a lawyer with an organization that represents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-903975\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israelis arrested for violence against Palestinians<\/a>, explained that he believed one Jewish life equaled 10 million Palestinian lives and advocated for killing all those living in the nearby villages of Tal, Sarra, Jit, and Farata.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">When asked if this statement sounded racist, Shimon agreed that it was, but claimed it was also justified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cThis is the truth because God chose us. Because of this, you are jealous,\u201d he told the reporter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Shimon confirmed to the reporter that despite his occupation as a lawyer, the only law that really counted to him was the Bible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Shimon spoke to the reporter in the settlement of Gilad Farm, where the shooting took place.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, a wide-scale operation was launched in the West Bank, with over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-903604\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">70 terror suspects being arrested<\/a>, including the father of the Palestinian terrorist who carried out the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Israeli citizen told a BBC reporter he believed hundreds of residents of nearby Palestinian villages should be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1705,42,43,77721,98,40,38,41,39,77],"class_list":["post-570163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bbc","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-settler-violence","tag-terrorism","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570163","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=570163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}