U.K. bans West Bank settlement imports, citing 'ethnic cleansing'

In a move that redraws the moral cartography of transatlantic diplomacy, Britain has banned imports from Israeli West Bank settlements, grounding its decision in the charged language of ethnic cleansing — a threshold previous governments had carefully avoided naming. European allies moved swiftly in concert, revealing not an isolated gesture but a coordinated reckoning with decades of settlement expansion and its human cost. The United States, long the anchor of Western consensus on the Israeli-Palestinian question, responded with warnings, signaling that the alliance's shared map of the Middl