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Attacking the Goyim In the birthplace of Christianity, churches and communities are coming under attack from Jewish settlers
Israeli settlers “feel that everything belongs to them,” Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, told NBC News.
July 18, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
By Matt Bradley
TAYBEH, West Bank — The gleaming white ruins of Taybeh’s fifth-century Church of St. George Al Khidr stand as a testament to just how long the faith has endured in the occupied West Bank’s last majority-Christian town.
But after centuries of perseverance, the Christian community now faces a modern existential threat only a few miles from where its members’ faith was forged: regular, violent harassment by Jewish settlers who would like to force them and Palestinians of other faiths to leave, and an Israeli government that often turns a blind eye to the settlers’ crimes, according to rights groups and church leaders.
Earlier this week, the ruins were fringed with ashes left from recent fires that scorched olive orchards abutting the church grounds and its next-door cemetery — blazes town leaders say were deliberately ignited by Israeli Jews during an anti-Palestinian arson attack on July 7. NBC News has asked the Israel Defense Forces and the country’s police force for comment but did not receive any response.
The settlers “feel that everything belongs to them,” Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, told NBC News on Monday. “Unfortunately, it seems to me that the [Israeli] government is silent, if not supporting them, as we saw. So they feel free to behave as they want,” he added.
The attacks near the church were small and left no casualties but they play into a worsening pattern of deadly settler abuse of Palestinians, the perpetrators of which are rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities. The Israeli government had previously said that any acts of violence by civilians are unacceptable and that individuals should not take the law into their own hands.
Settler violence targeting Palestinians in the West Bank has spiked to unusually high levels over the past several months: The United Nations has reported more than 700 incidents just in the first half of this year. It reported 216 attacks by Israel settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank for the whole of 2023.
Some have blamed this on an upswell of anti-Palestinian anger in Israel following the Hamas-led terror attacks from Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. But they had already been increasing after the most right-wing government in Israeli history took office in late 2022.
“Since the establishment of this government, you have [ministers] saying, ‘Don’t apply the law on settlers,’” Nadav Weiman, executive director of “Breaking the Silence,” an Israeli organization that reports on abuses by Israel’s security services, said in an interview.
“You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to see these videos from the West Bank and see full faces” of the settlers, said Weiman, adding that they enjoyed so much impunity that many often no longer wear masks.
Last Friday, settlers beat to death Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old American from Florida who was visiting his mom, brother and sister in the village of Sinjil. A second man identified as Mohammed al-Shalabi, 23, was also killed in the incident, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Musallet’s death sparked an angry reaction from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee — an evangelical Christian and longtime advocate for settlers’ rights to colonize Palestinian land — who in a Wednesday post on X said Israel should “aggressively investigate the murder,” which he called a “criminal and terrorist act.”
The Israel Defense Forces said last Friday that authorities were looking into the matter. Police told NBC News that several people from “both sides” had been detained at the scene on suspicion of involvement in acts of violence, and that a joint investigation had been launched by the Israel Police and IDF Military Police.
Asked for an update Thursday, the IDF said a probe by the Israel Police and the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division was ongoing. The Israel Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
However, settlers rarely face legal consequences for violence against Palestinians, according to a report last year from the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, which found that more than 93% of investigations between 2005 and 2023 closed without an indictment and only 3% led to a conviction.
In videos taken by eyewitnesses in Taybeh and elsewhere in the West Bank, the settlers appear to be almost exclusively young men in their teens and 20s.
But Palestinian observers say the settler group, known in Israel as “Hilltop Youth,” are just foot soldiers fronting a sophisticated, coordinated effort to settle the West Bank in such a way as to make the formation of a Palestinian state impossible.
Designating Hilltop Youth a “violent extremist group” in October, the U.S. Treasury Department appeared to echo this assessment, saying it engaged “in killings, arson, assaults, and intimidation intended to drive Palestinian communities out of the West Bank.”
The settlers have also taken to grazing their cows and sheep in Palestinian fields. Leaders of the Church of St. George Al Khidr showed NBC News videos of settlers walking their cows into the town center, where they munched on the leaves of commercial olive trees.
Rights groups including Amnesty International and the Israel-based Peace Now, B’Tselem and Kerem Navot say the settlers’ strategy is both to damage Palestinian agriculture and to incite conflicts with residents to create a pretext for violence.
Both goals are intended to push the Palestinians out, the rights groups say.
Girgis Awad, a chicken farmer in Taybeh, said Monday that heavily armed settlers recently attempted to carjack him as he returned home from work at night.
“We are often constantly exposed to situations that make difficult our movement and our daily life,” Awad said. He added that settlers were stopping him and others from traveling to their farms to transfer chicks or food.
Christianity is a constant presence in Taybeh, which is home to Greek Orthodox, Latin and Melkite Greek Catholic churches. Small shrines and steeples loom over its streets, which straddle a hilltop overlooking a pastoral expanse of olive orchards. It’s also home to the Taybeh Brewing Company, one of very few beer companies in the Muslim-majority West Bank.
The Christian minority here is more endangered than perhaps any other Palestinian community. Since Israel’s founding in 1948, the number of Christian Palestinians in what was once Mandatory Palestine has shrunk from around 10% of the population to less than 1%, with many emigrating to the West.
But the settlers aren’t targeting Taybeh for its religious identity, priests here say. They want to cleanse the West Bank of its non-Jewish population, regardless of their faith.
“They don’t differ between Muslims or Christians,” said the Rev. David Khoury, the leader of Taybeh’s Greek Orthodox Church, who said he was born and raised in the town. “The settlers, they are dealing with us the same.
Israeli settlers “feel that everything belongs to them,” Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, told NBC News.
July 18, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
By Matt Bradley
TAYBEH, West Bank — The gleaming white ruins of Taybeh’s fifth-century Church of St. George Al Khidr stand as a testament to just how long the faith has endured in the occupied West Bank’s last majority-Christian town.
But after centuries of perseverance, the Christian community now faces a modern existential threat only a few miles from where its members’ faith was forged: regular, violent harassment by Jewish settlers who would like to force them and Palestinians of other faiths to leave, and an Israeli government that often turns a blind eye to the settlers’ crimes, according to rights groups and church leaders.
Earlier this week, the ruins were fringed with ashes left from recent fires that scorched olive orchards abutting the church grounds and its next-door cemetery — blazes town leaders say were deliberately ignited by Israeli Jews during an anti-Palestinian arson attack on July 7. NBC News has asked the Israel Defense Forces and the country’s police force for comment but did not receive any response.
The settlers “feel that everything belongs to them,” Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, told NBC News on Monday. “Unfortunately, it seems to me that the [Israeli] government is silent, if not supporting them, as we saw. So they feel free to behave as they want,” he added.
The attacks near the church were small and left no casualties but they play into a worsening pattern of deadly settler abuse of Palestinians, the perpetrators of which are rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities. The Israeli government had previously said that any acts of violence by civilians are unacceptable and that individuals should not take the law into their own hands.
Settler violence targeting Palestinians in the West Bank has spiked to unusually high levels over the past several months: The United Nations has reported more than 700 incidents just in the first half of this year. It reported 216 attacks by Israel settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank for the whole of 2023.
Some have blamed this on an upswell of anti-Palestinian anger in Israel following the Hamas-led terror attacks from Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. But they had already been increasing after the most right-wing government in Israeli history took office in late 2022.
“Since the establishment of this government, you have [ministers] saying, ‘Don’t apply the law on settlers,’” Nadav Weiman, executive director of “Breaking the Silence,” an Israeli organization that reports on abuses by Israel’s security services, said in an interview.
“You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to see these videos from the West Bank and see full faces” of the settlers, said Weiman, adding that they enjoyed so much impunity that many often no longer wear masks.
Last Friday, settlers beat to death Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old American from Florida who was visiting his mom, brother and sister in the village of Sinjil. A second man identified as Mohammed al-Shalabi, 23, was also killed in the incident, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Musallet’s death sparked an angry reaction from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee — an evangelical Christian and longtime advocate for settlers’ rights to colonize Palestinian land — who in a Wednesday post on X said Israel should “aggressively investigate the murder,” which he called a “criminal and terrorist act.”
The Israel Defense Forces said last Friday that authorities were looking into the matter. Police told NBC News that several people from “both sides” had been detained at the scene on suspicion of involvement in acts of violence, and that a joint investigation had been launched by the Israel Police and IDF Military Police.
Asked for an update Thursday, the IDF said a probe by the Israel Police and the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division was ongoing. The Israel Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
However, settlers rarely face legal consequences for violence against Palestinians, according to a report last year from the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, which found that more than 93% of investigations between 2005 and 2023 closed without an indictment and only 3% led to a conviction.
In videos taken by eyewitnesses in Taybeh and elsewhere in the West Bank, the settlers appear to be almost exclusively young men in their teens and 20s.
But Palestinian observers say the settler group, known in Israel as “Hilltop Youth,” are just foot soldiers fronting a sophisticated, coordinated effort to settle the West Bank in such a way as to make the formation of a Palestinian state impossible.
Designating Hilltop Youth a “violent extremist group” in October, the U.S. Treasury Department appeared to echo this assessment, saying it engaged “in killings, arson, assaults, and intimidation intended to drive Palestinian communities out of the West Bank.”
The settlers have also taken to grazing their cows and sheep in Palestinian fields. Leaders of the Church of St. George Al Khidr showed NBC News videos of settlers walking their cows into the town center, where they munched on the leaves of commercial olive trees.
Rights groups including Amnesty International and the Israel-based Peace Now, B’Tselem and Kerem Navot say the settlers’ strategy is both to damage Palestinian agriculture and to incite conflicts with residents to create a pretext for violence.
Both goals are intended to push the Palestinians out, the rights groups say.
Girgis Awad, a chicken farmer in Taybeh, said Monday that heavily armed settlers recently attempted to carjack him as he returned home from work at night.
“We are often constantly exposed to situations that make difficult our movement and our daily life,” Awad said. He added that settlers were stopping him and others from traveling to their farms to transfer chicks or food.
Christianity is a constant presence in Taybeh, which is home to Greek Orthodox, Latin and Melkite Greek Catholic churches. Small shrines and steeples loom over its streets, which straddle a hilltop overlooking a pastoral expanse of olive orchards. It’s also home to the Taybeh Brewing Company, one of very few beer companies in the Muslim-majority West Bank.
The Christian minority here is more endangered than perhaps any other Palestinian community. Since Israel’s founding in 1948, the number of Christian Palestinians in what was once Mandatory Palestine has shrunk from around 10% of the population to less than 1%, with many emigrating to the West.
But the settlers aren’t targeting Taybeh for its religious identity, priests here say. They want to cleanse the West Bank of its non-Jewish population, regardless of their faith.
“They don’t differ between Muslims or Christians,” said the Rev. David Khoury, the leader of Taybeh’s Greek Orthodox Church, who said he was born and raised in the town. “The settlers, they are dealing with us the same.
What? Wow….yeah. Could Israel, and this is just a weird theory here, because they have many soldiers in the IDF that are of the same Druze religion/background etc…as that persecuted group in Syria…. Could that be their motivation for what’s going on in Syria…that would appease the Druze minority population, not just in Israel, but in the IDF itself? Wouldn’t that reinforce their loyalty to the IDF and Israel?
They are Goyim. There is no appeasing subhumans.
You're so naive.
IDF rabbinate under fire for discrimination
Army rabbinic rulings book declares 'goyim' don't have equal rights in Israel, recommends that women not affix mezuzas
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Where did you get the idea that Israelis have equal rights? Treating the Goyim as lesser people is systemic.
So which do you prefer? Being called an Infidel or a Goyim?
I have no issue with infidel because I'm still considered a human and not a dog or a pig put on earth to serve the "Chosen".
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Neither. How ‘bout yourself?
How does this compare to the rest of the Middle East? Just curious…
(Tunisia has made notable advancements in gender equality, with women enjoying greater freedoms and rights compared to many other countries in the region. The Tunisian revolution brought about political and social changes, including increased freedom of expression and some legal reforms that benefit women. Tunisia is also considered the most democratic country in North Africa and the Arab world. However, it still faces economic challenges that impact its progress)
The last line in your quote says it all. No legal right to equality.
I've been to 3 Middle East muslim countries, another in Africa and 2 in Asia. From West to East it's Morocco, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Indonesia. Zero problems and treated respect and openness.
How about you?
I’ve been to none of them, and have no urge to go to any of them, or Israel. I’ve only played on this side of the globe where religion wasn’t something people fought about, & I treat people like I want to be treated so I’ve never had a problem.
He take it personally 😂
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Well, I'd excoriate Israel for hypocrisy and speaking fine words whilst being real bastards, but I live in the land where "all men are created equal," so not a lot of room to talk.