Current sectionIsrael NewsShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeBritain's Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, right, and view of the Palestinian town of Al Azariya, in the E1 area of the West Bank. Credit: Itay Cohen/Haaretz, Leon Neal/Pool Photo via APThe British Labour government is preparing biting measures against Israeli settlements. For Britain's Jewish community, the response will test where solidarity with Israel ends and complicity with its extremist leadership begins06:40 PM • August 26 2026 IDTLast week, U.S. President Trump announced "the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY!" against Iran, which he dubbed "Operation Economic Outcast." But there's another country in the Middle East that is bracing for the announcement of an unprecedented raft of economic sanctions, to be imposed by the United Kingdom: Israel. And the measures aren't related to the Strait of Hormuz, but to settlements.In the NewsSyria's Kurdish-led SDF Dissolves as Part of Integration With DamascusSlovenia Undercuts EU Condemnation of Israel's West Bank E1 Settlement PlanBy Smashing a Palestinian Monument, Tzvi Succot Exposed the West Bank's Reality'Israel Is Sending Militias to Commit War Crimes – and I Have to Protect Them'IDF Soldiers Tried to Bar Israeli MK From West Bank Village Under Settler SiegeRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIAn Israeli Startup Is Reinventing Salmon Farming. It May Upend a Global IndustryHasan Piker Talks Hamas, anti-Zionism and Why Americans Are Fed Up With IsraelBeing Israeli Abroad Has Become Embarrassing. You Don't Talk About ItDavid Remnick on Netanyahu, Mamdani and Israel's 'Failure to Face' GazaGermany Found Its Israeli Villain. Will It Continue to Ignore What Produced Him?Ben-Gvir's Ambush Shook Netanyahu – and Unleashed a War for Right-wing Votes