{"id":2655215,"date":"2026-09-05T14:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-huckabee-again-condemns-violent-israeli-settlers-as-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:50:40","slug":"mike-huckabee-again-condemns-violent-israeli-settlers-as-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-huckabee-again-condemns-violent-israeli-settlers-as-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huckabee again condemns violent Israeli settlers as &#8216;terrorists&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-huckabee-again-condemns-violent-israeli-settlers-as-terrorists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2655215&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Mike Huckabee, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, has condemned violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank, labeling their attacks against Palestinians as acts of \u201cterror.\u201d He previously criticized settler violence, including an incident where settlers attacked a home owned by an American citizen. During a visit to Turmus Ayya, huckabee emphasized that actions such as vandalism, arson, and violence by settlers are criminal and constitute terrorism. He clarified that while the U.S. Embassy cannot investigate crimes, it can pressure the Israeli government to address these issues. following Huckabee\u2019s remarks, residents reported settler attacks, including a mosque fire and vandalism in Bazariya.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the violence, calling it the behavior of a \u201chandful of rioters,\u201d and Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry described the actions as \u201ca disgrace.\u201d Settler violence has increased since Hamas\u2019 attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, with over 1,800 incidents reported in 2025, and resulting in more than 1,000 Palestinian and several Israeli deaths.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Ambassador to Israel <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-huckabee\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1142\">Mike Huckabee<\/a> again denounced violent Israeli settlers in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/west-bank\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1969\">West Bank<\/a>, describing their attacks against Palestinians as acts of \u201cterror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huckabee has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4685922\/mike-huckabee-denounce-israel-settler\/#google_vignette\">previously spoken out <\/a>against settler violence, including after Israeli settlers attacked a home in the West Bank village of Qusra that was owned by an American citizen last month. <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4715133\/mike-huckabee-condemn-israel-settler-terrorist\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Mike Huckabee again condemns violent Israeli settlers as \u2018terrorists\u2019 in West Bank visit<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4715018\/putin-pause-ukraine-strike-witkoff-kushner-moscow\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Putin orders pause in Ukraine strikes as Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Moscow<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4713946\/russia-steve-witkoff-jared-kushner-kremlin-meeting-vladimir-putin\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Witkoff and Kushner to head to Kremlin for meeting with Putin before Kyiv visit<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf there are squatters that come in and put up their own flags and take possession of something that does not belong to them, if they burn a car, if they torch a mosque, if they go into someone\u2019s home and vandalize it, paint graffiti on the walls, that\u2019s a criminal act. But it extends beyond a criminal act. It\u2019s an act of terror,\u201d Huckabee said during a visit to the village of Turmus Ayya, where residents have reported frequent settler attacks over the past year. He clarified that his remarks were directed toward the U.S. citizens living among the Palestinians in the region. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huckabee also emphasized that the U.S. Embassy does not have the authority to investigate criminal activity, but it can pressure the Israeli government to respond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can tell our host government there are needs that need to be addressed, there are issues that cannot go unnoticed, and specific crimes and acts of terror that cannot continue without that country doing the investigation and adjudication that every person has a right to expect,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Large press group turned out to cover my trip to Turmusayya today to meet Americans living there. Decent law-abiding Israelis living in Judea\/Samaria are also disgusted by behavior of the few who violate civil law &#038; Torah by violence &#038; lawlessness. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fn7qqT6jN9\">pic.twitter.com\/fn7qqT6jN9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovMikeHuckabee\/status\/2096241677870530817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days after Huckabee first spoke out, residents of the West Bank village of Bazariya said Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque and spray-painted a message on a wall reading, \u201cHuckabee regards from the terrorists,\u201d in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israeli Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"378\">Benjamin Netanyahu <\/a>condemned the actions of a \u201chandful of rioters\u201d last week. Meanwhile, Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry described the settlers\u2019 conduct as \u201ca disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4694931\/oil-iran-economy-white-house-pr-reprieve-war\/\">OIL FLOWS AND IRANIAN ECONOMIC WOES GIVE WHITE HOUSE MUCH-NEEDED PR REPRIEVE AROUND WAR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Settler violence in the West Bank has surged since Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. According to the United Nations, settler attacks against Palestinians exceeded 1,800 incidents in 2025.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 2023, according to Palestinian health authorities, a figure that includes those killed by Israeli settlers, while dozens of Israelis have also been killed. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huckabee condemns West Bank settler violence as terror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4195,"featured_media":2655216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25232258225655.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4671,5894,67234,6039,3699],"class_list":["post-2655215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-israel","tag-politics","tag-settlers","tag-terrorism","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25232258225655.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655219,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655215\/revisions\/2655219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2655216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}