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<\/a>UN agency\u2019s data on \u2018settler violence\u2019 only available to its partners<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nMike Wagenheim<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The United Nations agency responsible for reporting on Israeli \u201csettler violence\u201d says it only makes its data available to selected organizations, \u201cprimarily to protect people\u2019s privacy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Regavim, an Israeli nonprofit that is dedicated to protecting Israel\u2019s national lands and resources, issued a report in April titled \u201cFalse Flags and Real Agendas<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The analysis cited what it said is flawed and misleading data in the annual report on settler violence published by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA.<\/span><\/p>\n The U.N.\u00a0 agency relies on poorly-sourced and fraudulent figures, which inflate actual incidents of violence committed by Israelis against Arabs in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, according to the report.<\/span><\/p>\n The OCHA report claimed that there was a dramatic jump in settler violence during the Israel-Hamas war. Reportedly rising attacks on Arabs led, in part, to U.S. and European sanctions against Jews residing in Judea and Samaria.<\/span><\/p>\n The U.N. agency doesn\u2019t share its data publicly, which made it hard for Regavim to analyze it. (OCHA requires a password to access it.)<\/span><\/p>\n After JNS sought comment several times from OCHA, Jens Laerke, the agency\u2019s deputy spokesman, said \u201cthe data has a degree of personal detail that is needed for partners providing aid, but not for public consumption.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn other words, it is primarily to protect people\u2019s privacy,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Laerke used the example of a burned orchard.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPartners may use detailed data from OCHA to understand which families depended on that land, how they were affected and what support they may require,\u201d he told JNS. \u201cThis level of detail is shared with partners providing aid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n OCHA makes anonymized statistics available to the public \u201cto allow for trend analysis while protecting people\u2019s privacy,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Naomi Khan, director of Regavim\u2019s international division, would not say how her group was able to access the OCHA database and compile a report. JNS did not see any personal information in the materials it viewed.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf only the organizations providing \u2018humanitarian aid\u2019 can see the data, and thus critique it, due to privacy concerns, and only the U.N. decides who its \u2018partners\u2019 are, we are all outside of this closed tautological circle,\u201d Khan told JNS.<\/span><\/p>\n OCHA \u201cpositioned itself as the policeman, judge, jury, court stenographer, reporter and PR agent,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is no point at which its decisions or judgment can be called into question or even examined. The accused have no recourse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Only those with access to the data can see that OCHA repeatedly uses only one source for its data\u2014the Palestinian Authority\u2019s District Coordination and Liaison Office, according to Khan.<\/span><\/p>\n The U.N. Agency cites both of the recognized initials for the office\u2014DCO and DCL\u2014making it appear as if they are separate sources, Khan said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe bias is baked in, but only laid bare if the sources are revealed,\u201d she told JNS. \u201cThe sources are revealed only to \u2018partners\u2019\u2014the very same people, more or less, who provide the \u2018data.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Laerke told JNS that \u201cOCHA\u2019s public statistics on incidents involving settlers only include incidents that result in casualties, property damage or both.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Its closely held data tells a different story.<\/span><\/p>\n Regavim allowed JNS to view its breakdown of the more than 8,000 incidents of settler violence culled from OCHA\u2019s database.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBuried between the lines is the inescapable conclusion that the State of Israel itself, or its various arms, which continue to provide the lions\u2019 share of most vital forms of \u2018humanitarian aid\u2019 to the Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria\u2014drinking water, electricity, food, jobs, medical care\u2014are not \u2018partners\u2019 and therefore are not privy to the OCHA data,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNor are they considered reliable sources of reporting on Arab violence,\u201d Khan told JNS. \u201cThis is what accounts for the absurd underreporting of Arab violence and the outrageous inclusion of official Israeli activity in Area C in the data.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The breakdown shows repeated incidents of Israeli government construction and infrastructure work in Area C of Judea and Samaria, which is under full Israeli civil and security control, labeled as settler violence, trespass or property damage.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhile settler violence can in some cases occur in relation to government activities, the latter as such are not classified as settler violence,\u201d Laerke told JNS.<\/span><\/p>\n That appeared to contradict the detailed Regavim breakdown that JNS viewed.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf Israel paves a road in Area C, or puts up electrical poles, or it corrects sewage systems or brings more water delivery systems, they call that settler violence-slash-trespassing,\u201d Khan said.<\/span><\/p>\n She drew JNS\u2019 attention to several examples in the OCHA database. \u201cIt\u2019s not, of course,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s nonsense.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Khan also pointed to examples of permitted agricultural work on Israeli state land by Jewish communities, which OCHA classified as settler violence.<\/span><\/p>\n Laerke told JNS that OCHA\u2019s \u201creporting threshold means that OCHA statistics on settler violence doesn\u2019t include incidents where settlers merely visited a site within the occupied Palestinian territory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis threshold is applied equally across all areas of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n That also did not appear to match the Regavim breakdown of OCHA\u2019s database, which includes examples of visits by Jews to Jerusalem\u2019s Temple Mount, Judaism\u2019s holiest site, that were classified as incidents of settler violence, even when no violence was documented.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEvery ascent of the Temple Mount by a non-Muslim is recorded as an incident of settler violence, of storming Al Aqsa,\u201d Khan told JNS.<\/span><\/p>\n Those visits accounted for \u201chundreds\u201d of reported incidents of settler violence, Khan said.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> UN agency\u2019s data on \u2018settler violence\u2019 only available to its partners Mike Wagenheim JNS got a rare look at closely-held U.N. information, which critics say is used to claim Jewish attacks against Arabs in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem are growing. 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\nJNS got a rare look at closely-held U.N. information, which critics say is used to claim Jewish attacks against Arabs in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem are growing.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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The Judea and Samaria security barrier as seen from Kibbutz Meirav, with Jalbun and Jenin in the background. Photo by Doron Horowitz\/Flash90.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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