Former Israeli premier says Israel associated with ‘genocide’ among US students

Drawing a comparison with how countries are commonly associated with symbols, he added: “You say Italy — ‘pasta, spaghetti.’ You say Israel — ‘baby killers.’”Bennett rejected that perception, saying: “Obviously, that isn’t true, and it isn’t fair, but that is the situation.”Read:Israel 'deliberately targeting' Gaza children.

He also blamed part of the shift in public opinion on what he described as Qatar’s influence in the US.“Part of this is because we allowed Qatar to operate and build influence for 25 years,” Bennett said. The interview comes as Israel faces growing international criticism over its war on Gaza and the worsening humanitarian situation in the enclave.

Last October, a US-backed ceasefire agreement went into effect in the Gaza Strip. Since then, however, repeated Israeli truce violations have killed more than 1,300 Palestinians across the enclave and have left more than 4,300 others injured.

Hundreds of bodies of slain Palestinians, meanwhile, have been pulled from under the rubble of destroyed infrastructure.’s Health Ministry, more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its genocidal war on the coastal strip in October 2023.

Additionally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been wanted since 2024 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israeli rabbi calls for Palestinians’ expulsion from occupied West Bank.

An Israeli rabbi has called for Palestinians to be expelled from the occupied West Bank, claiming that non-Jews have no national rights in what he described as the “land of Israel.”In footage published on Sunday by. Al Jazeera.

English, Menachem Ben Shahar is heard telling a group that Arabs who refuse to accept Jewish sovereignty should leave the territory. Read more:Killing of Palestinian children and teens by Israel surges in West Bank. Ben Shahar also said that even a 5-year-old child “loses his right to exist” if the child’s parents are considered “enemies,”.

The date and precise location of the encounter were not immediately clear. Israeli police detained and questioned Ben Shahar in October 2025 on suspicion of spreading extremist messages and inciting violence against Palestinians,. He had previously called for the Palestinian town of Huwara to be “wiped out.”All Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law.

The International Court of Justice said in a July 2024 advisory opinion that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should end “as rapidly as possible.”