Ex-Mossad Chief Says West Bank Settler Attacks Mirror the Holocaust

Tamir Pardo, who led Israel’s Mossad from 2011 to 2016, toured Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank and said settler violence against civilians reminded him of the Holocaust. He admitted feeling ashamed to be Jewish after witnessing the abuses. Pardo warned that authorities’ failure to curb settler crimes could sow the seeds for a “next October 7” that would be even more painful and risk civil war. He singled out far-right ministers for supporting extremist settler groups and suggested law enforcement has chosen to ignore the threat. Recalling a 1968 warning by philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz about the “corruption” colonial rule brings, Pardo said the philosopher’s concerns about military occupation proving destructive to Israeli society have proven true. Recent reports show a sharp rise in settler attacks, displacing over 36,000 Palestinians in a year and resulting in at least 16 Palestinian deaths so far this year. More than 1,000 Palestinians have also been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since October 2023.

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