As the UK, Canada, and France enact bans on goods from illegal Israeli settlements, some progressive Democrats are calling for the US to join the effort to sanction the escalating wave of state-backed settler terrorism against Palestinians in the West Bank. "Finally, some European countries are going beyond the ritual denouncing of…
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Trump's own ambassador says terrorism, Israeli generals say ethnic cleansing, Congress's ban request goes nowhere.
“Watch the order of operations here — the guy Trump appointed gets to call it terrorism free of charge, the generals get to call it ethnic cleansing free of charge, and the only ask that gets fought over is the one with a price tag on it, the ban on the actual goods. That's not an accident, that's the tell: words are cheap and Washington's fine handing them out, it's the money — the produce, the wine, the trade — that has a lobby standing behind it. Three of our closest allies already found the register button. We're still arguing about whether the ambassador was supposed to say that out loud.”
“Look, the Ambassador's entitled to his personal characterization, that's diplomacy, that's — actually that's not coordinated messaging, so technically it's not the administration's position, so technically nobody said anything. As for the trade thing, we don't take policy cues from London and Ottawa, we're not — okay, three of our closest allies already did this, but that's their call, we have a different relationship with the region. A more nuanced one. Did I say nuanced? I meant complicated.”
The receipts
Amnesty International said Thursday that the far-right Israeli government's recent flurry of land confiscation orders in the illegally occupied West Bank "deepens Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise and further undermines the rights of Palestinians," who are facing an increasingly destructive and deadly wave of settler violence. The…
Huckabee’s statements ‘were not coordinated with the White House’
· Mike Huckabee again condemns violent Israeli settlers as ‘terrorists’ in West Bank visit from the morgue, 5 Sep 2026
· Huckabee calls Israeli settler violence in West Bank an 'act of terror' from the morgue, 5 Sep 2026
· 'This Is Ethnic Cleansing': Retired Israeli Generals Decry Settler Terrorism Against West Bank Palestinians from the morgue, 31 Aug 2026
· 'Political Malpractice': Israel Hawk Moskowitz Picked for Key House Mideast Post from the morgue, 25 Aug 2026
· HMRC threatened with legal action over illegal Israeli settlement trade from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· HMRC threatened with legal action over Israeli settlement trade from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
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