settler

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The UN documented more than 1,800 settler attacks in 2025 that resulted in casualties or damage to property, in around 280 communities across the West Bank.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

But the recent surge has prompted criticism from influential rabbis, settler leaders and even military chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, who described the attacks as "morally and ethically unacceptable".

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Patriotic Iranian hero Babak Khorramdin, who led a nationalist movement against Arab settler colonialists in the ninth century, hailed from the Azeri city of Ardabil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

Still, the company used the lull to build a new brewery — an expression of faith despite the almost daily settler attacks.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

After settler forces defeated the Cherokees in 1776, one group of Cherokees strongly opposed to ceding any more land moved farther west.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz