Jul 4, 2026 · 38 min · 11 segments
This is part one of a two-part discussion with Daniel Klein, a former Zionist who grew up in a settlement in the West Bank. He has since moved to the US and regularly shares his transformation with…
Daniel KleinGuest
Jane MarieHost
So can you just paint a picture visually of what your house was like and where you were?
Most of the settlement movement is built into highly developed towns and cities.
So for me, I didn't really even recognize at the time that we lived in a settlement.
And it took decades to actually even come into the full awareness of what that even meant, because green line, pink line, this line, that line, none of that means anything when you're just growing up in what feels like an extension of Jerusalem.
You'd have cafes, pizza shops, restaurants, over the years, bakeries, healthcare services.
And when you say settlements, plural, so biblical, I'm always confused as to whether it's like a group of people get together and decide they're moving there or like if there's a leader that's saying, come here.
Like how, like, Or is settlements just means, like, tell me what settlements means, I guess.
Yeah, so today settlements are highly institutionalized because they're deeply connected to the state itself and the state supports them and works with, let's call them pioneers.
to establish the settlements, give them state-backed legitimacy, and grow them.
So settlements are not groups of people that just go to live on a hilltop somewhere, and it turns into a town.
So can you just paint a picture visually of what your house was like and where you were?
Most of the settlement movement is built into highly developed towns and cities.
So for me, I didn't really even recognize at the time that we lived in a settlement.
And it took decades to actually even come into the full awareness of what that even meant, because green line, pink line, this line, that line, none of that means anything when you're just growing up in what feels like an extension of Jerusalem.
You'd have cafes, pizza shops, restaurants, over the years, bakeries, healthcare services.
And when you say settlements, plural, so biblical, I'm always confused as to whether it's like a group of people get together and decide they're moving there or like if there's a leader that's saying, come here.
Like how, like, Or is settlements just means, like, tell me what settlements means, I guess.
Yeah, so today settlements are highly institutionalized because they're deeply connected to the state itself and the state supports them and works with, let's call them pioneers.
to establish the settlements, give them state-backed legitimacy, and grow them.
So settlements are not groups of people that just go to live on a hilltop somewhere, and it turns into a town.
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