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I'm assuming #1 is largely the result of BDS-style propagandizing.
A lot of major US cities have a plethora of "illegal settling" (whether it be setting up tents on someone's tree lawn and leaving needles in the street like in San Fran or LA, squatting in a property that's not theirs and claiming to invoke "squatter's rights", or just flat out entering the country illegally and setting up homestead, etc...), yet the BDS types tend to sympathize with them.
Same goes for the the aspect of buying the land... if rich white yuppies go into an area buy up the houses and property, it's labelled as "gentrification" (in a negative tone)
It's the same reason why here in the US...
A bunch of rich white yuppies gentrifying a neighborhood is viewed by those types as more "problematic" than a riot that destroys a neighborhood (which get's branded as some sort of righteous outrage)
Are you ignoring obvious power imbalances? Israeli settlers have the backing of the Israeli military, people in homeless encampments don't.
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