Incoming Israeli lawmakers include figures with records of inflammatory statements on Palestinians

Israel's projected next parliament will include politicians who have backed collective punishment of Palestinians, called for mass expulsion, pushed for starving people in Gaza or opposed Palestinian statehood, according to a review by Middle East Eye. The outlet listed candidates it says are on course to enter or return to the Knesset, based on provisional election results.

Hanamel Dorfman of Jewish Power, a former chief of staff to Itamar Ben Gvir, comes from the extremist settler movement. Haaretz quoted him at age 17, during a Tel Aviv protest against African asylum seekers, as saying: "The only problem with the Nazis is that I was on the losing side." Footage from his 2013 wedding showed him brandishing knives while dancing to songs that called for attacks on Palestinians.

Another Jewish Power candidate, Yitzhak Wasserlauf, is reported to have cited a biblical passage to motivate soldiers heading into Gaza. Jewish News said a recorded call captured him quoting Psalm 137, including its reference to seizing babies and smashing them against rocks.

From Religious Zionism-Zehut, Tzvika Mor, a settler from Kiryat Arba, has openly promoted collective punishment. In a radio interview this month, he demanded that electricity and water be cut off to Palestinian villages that resisted Jewish occupation, along with the expulsion of their families and the confiscation of their property.

His party colleague Itamar Eitam, a reserve lieutenant colonel, has rejected any distinction between fighters and civilians in Gaza, a view Middle East Eye describes as common in Israeli society. In a July 2024 interview he portrayed Palestinians as evil and dismissed the idea that they, like other peoples, want peaceful lives and an education for their children.

Yonatan Shalev of the Together list is a combat reservist who served in Gaza during the war, which the outlet characterizes as a genocide. He has defended denying Palestinians a state. He told The Jerusalem Post that Naftali Bennett would not permit one, saying of Palestinian land: "We're not going to pass Israeli territory to anyone."

Yulia Malinovsky of Yisrael Beiteinu joined activists blocking Gaza-bound aid trucks on 22 October, and the outlet says she turned the obstruction of supplies into campaign material. She publicized the blockade while accusing Benjamin Netanyahu's government of delivering food to Palestinian men, women and children instead of starving them.

Matan Kahana of the Yashar party said in June 2022 that he would press a hypothetical button to remove Arabs and send them to Switzerland. Middle East Eye says the remark expressed a desire for mass ethnic cleansing and referred to Arabs in general, not specifically to Palestinians in Gaza.

Merav Ben-Ari, also of Together, blamed Palestinian children for their own suffering during an October 2023 parliamentary debate and rejected comparisons with Israeli children who were killed. A later UN inquiry cited her remarks in its examination of rhetoric targeting Gaza's children.