Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's defence minister from 2013 to 2016, stated in an interview that "Jewish supremacy is Mein Kampf in reverse".
Ya'alon, who accused authorities of failing to investigate Israeli settler violence in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, said that "The Israeli government is encouraging Jewish pogromists to dispossess Arabs of their land through abuse, including shooting at them."

The interview was made following the former minister's visit to areas south of Hebron where he says to have met with Palestinians who have been harmed by settlers violence.
Ya’alon spent decades in the Israeli military, having taken part in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the violent suppression of the first and second Palestinian intifadas, and the 2014 war on Gaza.
In 2002, whilst serving as the army's chief of staff, he said: "The Palestinian threat harbours cancer-like attributes that have to be severed and fought to the bitter end."

And in 2015, he barred Breaking the Silence – an NGO of former Israeli soldiers who document army abuses – from engaging in activities with the military.
But in recent years, the 75-year-old has adopted a more critical tone towards the current government, accusing it in 2024 of carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

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