Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich is now banned from entering France. These sanctions are largely symbolic, but they matter. Why aren't other European Union countries sanctioning members of the Israeli government?

France Tuesday banned Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, as part of coordinated sanctions with other countries over settler violence…

France bans Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and settlers for promoting West Bank annexation and Gaza 're-colonisation'. Learn more about the Isra