Sep 13, 2026 · 58 min · 8 segments
The UK is moving to ban goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, citing international law and the International Court of Justice’s 2024 advisory opinion. France and Canada have…
Emily Schaefer-OmermanGuest
Jess GhannamHost
That's the voice and the face of Emily Schaefer-Omerman, the founder and executive director of Global Eco-Litigation Center, discussing the recent release of a report on basically Europe's complicity in the Palestinian dispossession through the settlement agricultural trade.
I mean, this is things that we've been talking about for many years, Jamal, but this organization has documented assiduously and shows the complicity between Europe and these illegal colonial settlers.
I should emphasize the violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
British officials have become increasingly critical of the expansion of Israeli settlements, particularly where Palestinian communities have been forced from their homes or subjected to violence and intimidation.
The U.K. government's use of the term ethnic cleansing, and I think this is a first, is of particular significance because it represents a strong characterization of what British officials say is happening in parts of the West Bank.
I think the total number now just is 12, including Canada and other countries that put these sanctions in place.
And the sanctions are part of a broader effort by Britain to pressure Israel over settlement expansion and settler violence while maintaining a two-state solution.
The announcement illustrates how criticism of Israel's policies in the West Bank is becoming more forceful among some of its traditional Western allies.
If you look every week, even on CNN, the pollster, their main pollster, Henry...
Henry, Henry Antom, I think his name, he brings a new poll about public opinion in the United States when it comes to Israel, and it's been, it's favorability, if I should say, if I even use the word favorability, it's sinking and sinking week after week.
That's the voice and the face of Emily Schaefer-Omerman, the founder and executive director of Global Eco-Litigation Center, discussing the recent release of a report on basically Europe's complicity in the Palestinian dispossession through the settlement agricultural trade.
I mean, this is things that we've been talking about for many years, Jamal, but this organization has documented assiduously and shows the complicity between Europe and these illegal colonial settlers.
I should emphasize the violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
British officials have become increasingly critical of the expansion of Israeli settlements, particularly where Palestinian communities have been forced from their homes or subjected to violence and intimidation.
The U.K. government's use of the term ethnic cleansing, and I think this is a first, is of particular significance because it represents a strong characterization of what British officials say is happening in parts of the West Bank.
I think the total number now just is 12, including Canada and other countries that put these sanctions in place.
And the sanctions are part of a broader effort by Britain to pressure Israel over settlement expansion and settler violence while maintaining a two-state solution.
The announcement illustrates how criticism of Israel's policies in the West Bank is becoming more forceful among some of its traditional Western allies.
If you look every week, even on CNN, the pollster, their main pollster, Henry...
Henry, Henry Antom, I think his name, he brings a new poll about public opinion in the United States when it comes to Israel, and it's been, it's favorability, if I should say, if I even use the word favorability, it's sinking and sinking week after week.
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