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Secretary Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliver joint statements to the press in Jerusalem, Israel, February 16, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via Wikipedia).
US calls for UK to reverse sanctions against Israeli far-right ministers
By Lee Harpin
Marco Rubio said: ‘We remind our partners not to forget who the real enemy is’
Secretary Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliver joint statements to the press in Jerusalem, Israel, February 16, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett via Wikipedia).
June 11, 2025, 9:20 am
US calls for UK to reverse sanctions against Israeli far-right ministers
Marco Rubio said: 'We remind our partners not to forget who the real enemy is'
By Lee Harpin
Jerusalem, Israel. 15th, June 2021. Betzalel Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionism Party joins thousands identifying with the nationalist religious Zionist streams marching in the annual Dance of Flags March from downtown Jerusalem to the Damascus Gate, Jaffa Gate and to the Western Wall. Participants celebrate the anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War in a demonstration of Jewish pride.
June 10, 2025, 7:34 pm
Falconer tells MPs UK would consider sanctions against antisemitic Palestinian ministers
Shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel confirmed the previous Conservative government also considered sanctioning these Israeli ministers
By Lee Harpin
Displaced Palestinians flee from Khan Younis, Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli military offensive in the area, on Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
May 21, 2025, 4:18 pm
Lord Levy, former Middle East envoy, backs Government’s hardened stance on Israel
Community grandee says countries have to take a stand to make Israel change its policy in Gaza
By Jenni Frazer
Gideon Sa'ar, right, meets David Lammy in Jerusalem on Jan. 12, 2024. (Photo by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel)
May 20, 2025, 2:03 pm
UK suspends free trade negotiations with Israel
Israel’s Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely summoned to Foreign Office over the expansion of military operations in Gaza
By Lee Harpin
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (C) at the scene of the crime after 7 people were killed in an armed attack in Jewish settlement at East Jerusalem. About 7 people were killed in an armed attack carried out by a Palestinian on a Jewish synagogue in Neve Yaakov settlement. (Credit Image: © Saeed Qaq/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire) EDITORIAL USAGE ONLY! Not for Commercial USAGE!
December 6, 2024, 10:16 am
220 Israeli expats sign letter calling for sanctions against far-right ministers
The letter, organised by the We Democracy group calls on Labour to 'implement sanctions' against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich andSecurity Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir
By Lee Harpin
David Lammy. Pic: PA
November 18, 2024, 2:52 pm
UK to confirm asset freeze on Iran’s national airline
David Lammy to confirm in speech at UN that Iran Air is sanctioned in response to the Government of Iran’s transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia.
By Lee Harpin
Itamar ben Gvir (L) and Bezalel Smotrich (R)
October 15, 2024, 11:07 am
Tory government planned to sanction Smotrich and Ben-Gvir
Lord Cameron says he was 'working up' sanctions on Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and national security minister Itamar Ben-Gevir prior to the general election
By Lee Harpin
Israeli police evict settlers from the West Bank outpost of Amona, Wednesday. (Photo by: JINIPIX)
May 3, 2024, 1:39 pm
UK imposes new sanctions on extremists for violence in the West Bank
Lord Cameron said:'Extremist settlers are undermining security and stability and threatening prospects for peace.'
By Lee Harpin
A Jewish settler walks past Israeli settlement construction sites around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, near Jerusalem June 30, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
February 12, 2024, 12:49 pm
UK sanctions four ‘extremist settlers’ in the West Bank
Foreign Office statement says the four individuals sanctioned "have used harassment, intimidation and violence to put pressure on Palestinian communities to leave their land. "
By Lee Harpin
Joe Biden
February 2, 2024, 10:41 am
Israeli settlers sanctioned by the US in response to ‘intolerable’ West Bank violence
The four Israelis, who were named, have been blocked from accessing all US property, assets and the American financial system.
By Lee Harpin
Eugene Shvidler
August 21, 2023, 10:48 am
Oil tycoon and Edgware primary school funder loses appeal against sanctions
The High Court in London rejected an effort by Eugene Shvidler to have the sanctions on him declared unlawful.
By Lee Harpin
A Hezbollah flag during the Al-Quds rally in London in 2016 (Photo credit: Steve Winston)
April 18, 2023, 11:58 am
Suspected Hezbollah financier sanctioned by UK government
The UK Government has announced a full asset freeze against Lebanese art collector Nazem Ahmad as part of efforts to prevent terrorism in the interests of national security
By Lee Harpin
An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps soldier flashes a Victory sign during Tehran's 'Jerusalem Day' rally May 2022 (Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)
January 23, 2023, 4:25 pm
UK imposes further sanctions on Iranian regime officials
Iranian deputy prosecutor general Ahmad Fazelian is among the list of names in further sanctions announced by foreign secretary James Cleverly
By Lee Harpin
IRGC tank in 2012 military parade in Tehran (Wikipedia)
December 28, 2022, 4:38 pm
UK imposes sanctions on Iranian Revolutionary Guards
James Cleverly said:: “I hope you will not hear me utter the well-worn phrases: ‘I am concerned by…’ or, worst of all, ‘I am deeply concerned by…,’ without also saying what I am doing."
By Jenni Frazer
Wayne David MP
December 13, 2022, 9:45 am
Iran places six more UK parliamentarians and MI5 chief on new sanctions list
Labour's Wayne David - amongst those on Tehran's list - tells Jewish News he has 'strongly supported the concern Israel has put out about the very real threat Iran poses, and will continue to do so.'
By Lee Harpin
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