Top US Democrat condemns rampant settler violence in West Bank

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joins the growing list of pro-Israel Democrats to condemn rampant settler violence in the West Bank.

Jeffries issues a statement blasting last week’s “shocking and appalling” killing of Palestinian-American Saif Musalat, who was allegedly beaten to death by Israeli settlers.

Jeffries calls on the Israeli government to investigate the killing, adding that “the rise in violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank directed at Palestinian civilians is completely and totally unacceptable.”

“The Trump administration cannot continue to turn a blind eye to what is happening in the West Bank if it is truly committed to finding a just and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinian people,” Jeffries adds.

Hours earlier, another prominent moderate Democrat — Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin — weighed in on Musalat’s killing, noting that he is the fifth American killed by settler violence this year alone.

“It’s hard to understand this lack of accountability by the Netanyahu government as anything other than tacit approval by the state,” Slotkin says.

She also laments the 60 Palestinians reportedly killed while seeking humanitarian aid.

“Israel has the responsibility to allow humanitarian aid in, just as the US had the responsibility to allow aid into places like Fallujah,” Slotkin writes on X.

Referring to the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Slotkin says, “If President Trump’s hand-picked aid organization can’t get food and medicine to people in Gaza in a safe way, Israel has the responsibility to find one that can.”