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EU Commission Vice-President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas Pic: Twitter/X

May 13, 2026, 10:41 am

EU sanctions Israeli settlers after Hungary, under new leadership, clears path

'Extremisms and violence carry consequences,' said the EU’s top diplomat, who said Hamas figures are also being sanctioned

By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)

2NRNC57 Hawara, Gaza. 27th Feb, 2023. A view of a building and cars burned by Israeli settlers in a revenge attack after two Israeli brothers were killed yesterday by a Palestinian gunman in Hawara, in the West Bank, on Monday, February 27, 2023. Photo by Debbie Hill/ Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News

March 26, 2026, 9:43 am

Under cover of war, we must listen to the Israelis sounding the alarm

A variety of prominent figures - from both Israel's Left and Right - are speaking out against a pattern that is becoming harder to ignore: the erosion of moral and legal boundaries

By David Davidi-Brown

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).

November 14, 2025, 12:07 pm

Marco Rubio warns that violence in the West Bank could threaten Gaza truce

Rubio’s warning comes amid surging attacks by Israeli settlers on West Bank Palestinians

By Philissa Cramer (JTA)

November 10, 2025, 4:07 pm

October sees unprecedented surge in Israeli settler violence against Palestinians

Violence rises in the West Bank during the olive-picking season

By Lee Harpin

Palestinian-American Ameena Abu Awad from Chicago stands near a car was torched by Israeli settlers in Turmus Ayya, West Bank, on Friday, June 23, 2023. Hundreds of masked and armed Israeli settlers rampaged the peaceful village of Turmus Ayya on Wednesday, where they burned cars and homes of Palestinians in a revenge attack after four Israelis were shot by Palestinian gunmen. Photo by Debbie Hill/ Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News

July 10, 2025, 4:41 pm

Opinion: In the West Bank, a struggle for the soul of Judaism

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg writes that what is at stake are our fundamental values and beliefs: how we understand God, humanity and Torah.

By Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

April 28, 2025, 11:22 am

REVIEW: Louis Theroux does what it says on the tin

Controversial documentary on Israeli settlers revisits issue after 14 years since previous film

By Jenni Frazer

April 1, 2025, 12:37 pm

‘Culture of impunity’ around West Bank settler violence is ‘intolerable’ says Lammy

Foreign secretary faces pressure from MPs to take tougher action over continued settler violence

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

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

December 14, 2023, 11:05 am

Cameron announces travel ban on settlers responsible for violence against Palestinians

Foreign Sec says 'We are banning those responsible for settler violence from entering the UK to make sure our country cannot be a home for people who commit these intimidating acts'

By Lee Harpin

December 11, 2023, 4:17 pm

UK government considering travel bans for violent West Bank settlers, MPs told

Foreign office minister Andrew Mitchell tells the Commons, Lord Cameron "discussed this with his US counterpart last week and I hope it may be possible to say something about that shortly'

By Lee Harpin

Palestinians inspect the demolished family home of Saleh al-Arouri, in the West Bank village of Arura, near Ramallah, on October 31, 2023.(FLASH90) via JTA

November 8, 2023, 5:51 pm

Opinion: A war on multiple fronts

As the war deepens in Gaza, so the dangers are growing of another front opening up in the West Bank, says Richard Miron, a former BBC reporter who was based in Israel

By Richard Miron

March 1, 2023, 6:30 pm

OPINION: After Hawara, the fight is now for Israel’s future

The occupied territories have come to Israel writes Richard Miron, former spokesperson for the UN Secretary General’s Middle East envoy.

By Richard Miron

IDF soldiers run towards potential situation in the West Bank city of Hebron, July 2022

August 3, 2022, 5:58 pm

‘We must fix this for the settlers, soldiers and the Palestinians’

Controversial Israeli group Breaking The Silence attracts increasing numbers of diaspora Jews onto its 'occupation tour' in West Bank cities like Hebron. Jewish News joined one.

By Lee Harpin

Donald Trump embraces Benjamin Netanyahu during a previous meeting in Washington

June 4, 2020, 2:21 pm

Netanyahu attacks settlers for making disparaging remarks about President Trump

Prime minister hits out at David Elhayani, chairman of the umbrella Yesha Council, after he said the proposed peace plan proved Trump was 'not a friend of Israel'

By Jewish News Reporter

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