The UK is going after a crime while continuing to be complicit with the serial criminal.
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BDS co-founder says UK settlement ban doesn't go far enough; Trump administration says it goes too far
“You ban the stolen goods but let the guy still fencing them keep his loading dock — that's not an oversight, that's the business model. Three countries write the check on this one and ours writes the angry tweet. Follow the produce aisle far enough and it leads straight to fifteen land confiscation orders in a single month, which is the part nobody in Washington wants read into the record.”
“Look, sanctioning an ally's agricultural exports over some paperwork dispute isn't diplomacy, it's overreach — the administration is protecting a strategic relationship, full stop. Okay, it's not paperwork, it's confiscated land, but you can support the relationship and still — did I just call fifteen land grabs a labeling issue? That doesn't sound like me.”
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…
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…
· 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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