id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6948 Judaism and violence - Wikipedia .html text/html 9590 885 66 Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Mandate Palestine, urged that Jewish settlement of the land should proceed by peaceful means only.[70] Contemporary settler movements follow Kook's son Tzvi Yehuda Kook (1891–1982), who also did not advocate aggressive conquest.[70] Critics claim that Gush Emunim and followers of Tzvi Yehuda Kook advocate violence based on Judaism's religious precepts.[71] Ian Lustick, Benny Morris, and Nur Masalha assert that radical Zionist leaders relied on religious doctrines for justification for the violent treatment of Arabs in Palestine, citing examples where pre-state Jewish militia used verses from the Bible to justify their violent acts, which included expulsions and massacres such as the one at Deir Yassin.[72] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6948.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6948.txt