The radical Jewish rabbi who has given the thumbs-up to the killing of non-Jews reveals the true nature of the Israeli regime, says a human rights activist.

Salah Abdul Ati, director of the Independent Human Rights Center, told Al-Alam that the ruling by Yitzhak Shapira is based on “terrorist” Jewish views.

Shapira, in his book published this week and endorsed by prominent religious right-wing figures, suggests killing any non-Jew, including children and babies, who pose a threat to the occupying regime.

Abdul Ati said the book is not the first in its kind and won’t be the last, but warned of the dangerous consequences of the view, which “is against all international rules and regulations”.

Rabbi Shapira’s book also argues that revenge is a necessity under Jewish law.

Shapira is the head of an Orthodox Jewish school in Yitzhar, one of the territory’s most hardline settlements, located near Nablus.