Update: UK sanctions on West Bank settlers are the right step | Letters

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The available account reports that readers respond to the move announced by Ed Miliband to impose sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements As a religious Jew, I am disappointed at the reaction of some of our communal leaders and bodies to the sanctions on trade with illegal Israeli settlements ( UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing, 8 September ). The report also notes that Many Jews in the UK are horrified by the Israeli government’s actions, which include promises from some ministers of burying the idea of a Palestinian state, and turning a blind eye to unchecked settlement expansion and escalating settler violence. While much of the British media may choose to platform one view as being representative of the Jewish reaction to these sanctions, I would point to organisations such as Yachad and Na’amod , which provide an alternative anti‑occupation narrative. It is also frustrating that the opinion of the chief rabbi is upheld by news organisations as though he is the Jewish version of the pope: he isn’t.

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