Singapore targets Israelis yet stays silent on relentless Palestinian violence, rewarding aggressors and blaming victims.
In an astonishing display of selective moral outrage, the Singaporean government announced new “targeted sanctions” and entry bans against four Israeli citizens, accusing them of involvement in “violent incidents” in Judea and Samaria—while conveniently ignoring the relentless Palestinian terror that has plagued the region daily.
Their statement named Meir Mordechai Ettinger, Elisha Yered, Bentzi Gopstein, and Baruch Marzel, claiming they engaged in “extreme acts of violence” against Palestinians. No mention was made of the countless Palestinian firebombings, roadside ambushes, stone-lynchings, drive-by shootings, and arson attacks that Israeli civilians endure regularly. As usual, Palestinian aggression is normalized while Israeli self-defense is criminalized.
Singapore then doubled down on a tired, outdated talking point, declaring that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria—ancestral Jewish land—are “illegal under international law.” This position parrots the most hostile anti-Israel UN rhetoric while ignoring the simple truth: Jews living in the heartland of Jewish history are not “settlers,” but indigenous inhabitants with a 3,000-year claim backed by archaeology, history, and the League of Nations Mandate.
The statement went further, insisting that Israelis living in their historic homeland “hinder a political solution,” while omitting the core obstacle: Palestinian leadership’s refusal to accept Israel’s existence under any borders, and the celebration of terrorists as heroes.
Singapore also demanded that Israel “restrain violence by settlers” and “bring those responsible to justice,” yet said nothing about the Palestinian Authority’s routine payment of salaries to terrorists, nor Hamas’ never-ending calls for Israel’s destruction.
This moral imbalance—pressuring Israel while indulging Palestinian extremism—does not promote peace. Rather, it rewards aggression, emboldens anti-Israel violence, and paints Jewish self-defense as criminality.
Once again, a foreign government chooses the easy path of condemning Jews rather than confronting the real destabilizers of Judea and Samaria: Palestinian terror networks and the Arab-led campaign to erase Jewish presence from Jewish land.
