Ihave always supported, visited, protected and promoted the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. These are not “outposts” or “settlements,” as the world cynically calls them. They are the living continuation of the Jewish story; the heartland of our people, the very ground where our forefathers walked and where the covenant between God and Israel was first lived.

From Hebron (Israel’s first capital) to Beit El, from Shiloh (where the Tabernacle stood for 369 years) to Ofra, and from the valleys of Judea to the ridges of Samaria, this is not foreign soil; it is the cradle of Jewish life, matched only by Jerusalem itself. To claim Jews cannot live here is racist, antisemitic and a denial of 3,000 years of Jewish history.

But because these lands are sacred, I must speak out against the

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