U.S. is even more implicated in Israeli settlement project than we thought

U.S. is even more implicated in Israeli settlement project than we thought

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Philip Weiss on August 30, 2015 

The Israeli colonies are an American problem in a whole new way. Nearly one out of six settlers in the West Bank is an American. Haaretz broke the story. Oxford scholar Sara Yael Hirschhorn says Americans are starkly overrepresented among West Bank settlers:

Roughly 60,000 American Jews live in West Bank settlements, where they account for 15 percent of the settler population, according to figures revealed Thursday by an Oxford University scholar and expert on this population. http://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/implicated-settlement-thought?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=efe2d72866-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-efe2d72866-398529325