(23) But the land must not be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine; you are but strangers resident with Me.

(24) Do not defile yourselves in any of those ways, for it is by such that the nations that I am casting out before you defiled themselves. (25) Thus the land became defiled; and I called it to account for its iniquity, and the land spewed out its inhabitants. (26) But you must keep My laws and My rules, and you must not do any of those abhorrent things, neither the citizen nor the stranger who resides among you; (27) for all those abhorrent things were done by the people who were in the land before you, and the land became defiled. (28) So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you.

"While we recognize that the Palestinian people have every right to continue living within the borders of Israel and in territory Israel controls and that Palestinians are in no way responsible to follow Jewish law or principles, we can nevertheless hope that they will repudiate violence in the same spirit that Joshua hoped the Canaanites would renounce the violence and murder that the Torah contends pollutes the land."

-Rabbi Jeremy Barras

"Deserving of the Land," The Social Justice Torah Commentary, p. 18.

Due to the sin of bloodshed, the Holy Temple is destroyed, and the Divine Presence leaves Israel, as it says: “So you shall not pollute the land wherein you are; for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. And you shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the children of Israel” (Numbers 35:33–34). However, if you defile the land, you will not inhabit it, and I will not dwell in it.

"In prioritizing land over the lives of human beings, the State of Israel violates the biblical warning against defiling the land and the Talmudic threat that God will flee if there is bloodshed in the land."

-Rabbi Jill Jacobs

"'The Land Is Mine,'" The Social Justice Torah Commentary, p. 193.

(3) They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and יהוה is in their midst. Why then do you raise yourselves above יהוה’s congregation?”

(17) Every dispute that is for the sake of Heaven, will in the end endure; But one that is not for the sake of Heaven, will not endure. Which is the controversy that is for the sake of Heaven? Such was the controversy of Hillel and Shammai. And which is the controversy that is not for the sake of Heaven? Such was the controversy of Korah and all his congregation.

"The lesson from Korach is not to stifle values-based dissent but rather to be wary of leadership pursued for the wrong reasons."

-Rabbi Ethan Bair

"Dissent for the Sake of Heaven: American Jews and Israel," The Social Justice Torah Commentary, p. 237.