Supporters of Israel’s decades-old settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territories have been quick to welcome Donald Trump’s recent U.S. election victory and what they clearly expect will be a boon to their aim of formally annexing the West Bank. CBC | World News
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Canada sanctions ‘extremist’ Israeli settlers
Canada is imposing sanctions on “extremist” Israeli settlers in the West Bank, Global Affairs Canada announced Thursday. CBC | World News
Read More »Months after they were promised, Ottawa still hasn’t imposed sanctions on violent Israeli settlers
The Government of Canada has announced multiple rounds of sanctions against various parties in the Middle East since October 7. But it still hasn’t engaged sanctions against violent Israeli settlers, despite promising to do so. CBC | World News
Read More »Tensions explode as Israeli settlers storm West Bank shooting while Iran threatens war
The violence was the latest in an escalation in the West Bank that has accompanied Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Joly says Canada will sanction some ‘extremist’ Israeli settlers, Hamas leaders
Canada’s foreign affairs minister says that this country is preparing to place sanctions on some settlers and leaders of Hamas. CBC | World News
Read More »Biden signs executive order sanctioning 4 Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday issued an executive order that targets Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been accused of attacking Palestinians in the occupied territory, imposing financial sanctions and visa bans in an initial round against four individuals. CBC | World News
Read More »In the absence of an official Israeli postwar plan, settlers push their goal of a Jewish Gaza
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Read More »As U.S., U.K. and EU sanction violent Israeli settlers, Canada hangs back
The U.S. and U.K. have imposed visa bans on violent Israeli settlers who have staged hundreds of attacks on Palestinians during the past year. The European Union says it will do the same. But the Trudeau government is declining to say whether it will follow suit. CBC | World News
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