CMES Seminar: Jewish Settler Violence in Palestine as Israeli State Responsibility: From Attribution to Accountability under International Law

The phenomenon of settler violence against people and property in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, and in particular the West Bank, has been a feature of Israel's grip over that land for decades. Despite some Western states' attempts to impose sanctions on individual settlers, in recent years, incidents of settler violence have been on the rise in a climate of impunity for perpetrators and endorsement from the political mainstream - including government ministers. 

Building on the propositions convincingly articulated by Mais Qandeel  (2023) that ‘much of settler violence can be categorised as state-backed (international) crimes’, this paper proposes that settler violence is a composite phenomenon underpinned by – and generative of – international law violations which occur under the aegis of the state. It argues that the settler-colonial state is the vehicle of settler violence, in a historic continuum from pre-1948 until the present day. Against this backdrop, a better understanding of attribution of such acts to the state through the 2001 Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA) and other norms of public international law is necessary to hold those responsible to account. 

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