The new approach was needed because of the plans for the E1 development - a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut off the occupied West Bank from East Jerusalem and divide the territory in two.
Explaining the rationale behind the sanctions on Israeli settlements.
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We will ban imports from Israeli settlements, prohibit advertising for settlement property in the UK and impose sanctions on companies and individuals involved in financing, construction, infrastructure and other activity supporting…
Anyone who holds British Jews - or indeed Jews around the world - responsible for the actions of the Israeli government, is engaging in antisemitism, pure and simple.
We must and we will ensure this never happens again. So we will ban the advertising in the UK of illegal settlements.
I feel a deep sense of shame over Palestinian suffering during the past three years.
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