UK imposes sweeping sanctions on Israeli settlements, calls out ethnic cleansing

In a moment that would have seemed impossible just seasons ago, Britain formally declared Israel's occupation of the West Bank unlawful and imposed sweeping sanctions to match — joining twelve other nations in a coordinated international reckoning with settler violence and Palestinian displacement. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, himself a British Jew, stood in Parliament and named what he saw plainly: ethnic cleansing, carried out by settlers operating with state backing. The decision reflects a broader question that democracies have long deferred — at what point does witnessing suffering beco