There have been over 1,400 incidents of settler violence in the West Bank since October 2023, according to the UN.
Today’s sanctions target settler outposts and organisations supporting, inciting, and promoting settler violence.https://t.co/0YMg3FhNUh
— Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (@FCDOGovUK) October 15, 2024
BREAKING: The UK has announced sanctions in response to continued violence by “extremist Israeli settlers” in the occupied West Bank. https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3
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It is so very obvious that these “sanctions on Jews” exist only to try to make it look like Western countries are doing something about Jewish mass murder.
They aren’t doing anything and they will not do anything because even if they wanted to, they can’t do anything. The US government funds Israel and always will fund Israel for as long as the US government exists. Nothing is going to change that, other than a fall of the US government.
The UK should not even be talking about Israel.
What is the point?
The UK Foreign Office has announced sanctions against seven organisations that support illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank, but held back from penalising two extremist members of the Israeli government as the former foreign secretary David Cameron had been planning.
Cameron told the BBC on Tuesday that he had intended to impose sanctions on Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, and the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and said he was concerned that the Labour government had not adopted his proposal. He said he had only held back from taking the step in the spring because he had been advised that it would be too political during the general election.
The Foreign Office said its latest sanctions had been in preparation for weeks and were not a kneejerk response to Cameron’s disclosure.
The sanctions are against three illegal settler outposts and four organisations the Foreign Office said had “supported and sponsored violence against communities in the West Bank”. It said there had been an unprecedented rise in settler violence, with 1,400 attacks on Palestinians recorded by the UN since October 2023.
The current foreign secretary, David Lammy, said: “When I went to the West Bank earlier this year I met Palestinians whose communities have suffered horrific violence at the hands of Israeli settlers.
“The inaction of the Israeli government has allowed an environment of impunity to flourish where settler violence has been allowed to increase unchecked. Settlers have shockingly even targeted schools and families with young children.”
He vowed further asset freezes would be imposed to stop “these heinous abuses of human rights”.
If there is a point, it’s that these people are drilling home the fact that the Jews are absolute monsters.
Probably, there are some people in Western governments who are tired of being controlled by the Jews. This is a way to lash out at them.
It is clear that the far-right Netanyahu government is acting without restraint in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
And yet the UK continues to provide arms to Israel.
I asked the Minister if she recognises the UK’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes. pic.twitter.com/JoewEgVjnQ
— Ellie Chowns (@EllieChowns) October 15, 2024