Levin's views on the Palestinian conflict have varied through the years. According to an
Al Jazeera documentary, in 2013, Levin stated at an arms industry conference that Israel's goal in the occupied territories was to create more 'room to manoeuvre' by punishing the Palestinians, adding that, "You have to understand, most Palestinians were born to die – we just have to help them." The documentary was false because at the conference Levin spoke about his view about the element of punishment during wartime in Lebanon and Gaza, where Israel used to fight militant
jihad organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas, and did not speak about the occupied territories or the Palestinians specifically. The quote was also distorted and he said: "Most of these guys were born destined to die, so we need to help them", committing to the enemy he is facing without saying "Palestinians". A leading figure on the Israeli left and member of the
Israeli Labor Party, Levin is considered a liberal icon. After losing out to
Avi Gabbay in the Labor party's elections in June 2017, he expressed his support for the winner. He has supported
Breaking the Silence, and thinks the army has grown soft because of the occupation. He also believes Palestinians deserve being occupied militarily because they refused to accept the borders set out for two states in the
1947 United Nations Partition Plan. He does not accept the borders existing before the
1967 war, thinks Israel was right to conquer the
West Bank ('Judea and Samaria') and is on record as advocating the expansion of Israeli settlements. He has also opined that if Palestinians fail to abide by agreements, Israel should "tear them apart" in a future war and
forcibly transfer them to "the other side of the Jordan River", i.e.
Jordan. Recently he has suggested a loosening of the
Gaza blockade, and advocates allowing
Palestinians in Gaza the use of an airport and a port, on condition that if rockets continue to be fired against Israel, entire neighbourhoods there should be flattened. In 2023 however, Levin made headlines for speaking at a protest
against proposed judicial reforms. At an interview a day later, he said "there is
apartheid in
Judea and Samaria, the IDF has started being complicit in war crimes, they stand on the sidelines and watch the
Hilltop Youth terrorize the Palestinians and do nothing. The IDF has rotted from the core." He later added "there hasn't been democracy in Judea and Samaria in 57 years. These people (referring to the settlers) do not know what democracy is. They are now rotting the Israeli society from within. These parties (referring to
Jewish Power,
Religious Zionism, and
Noam) now have a part of the majority
coalition in Parliament and
Netanyahu is responsible for giving them power. He gave the keys to criminals who never served in the IDF, people that in a functioning country would have been behind bars are now in charge of the police." The interviewer then quoted a speech delivered by former military general
Yair Golan who claimed that the behavior of some Israelis recalls "horrific processes" taking place in Europe in 1930s, especially in
Nazi Germany, and asked Levin if he agreed with his statements. "Of course", Levin replied, "walk around
Hebron and you will see streets where Palestinians aren't allowed to be in. It hurts to say this but that's the reality. Better to accept it than to ignore that it is happening". In August 2025, at a cultural event in
Tel Aviv, Levin condemned Israeli government's military rules of engagement amid operations in Gaza and instructions to
shoot children and parents seeking food and aid as a
genocide, stating in
Hebrew: == References ==