LONDON: Emily Thornberry, chair of the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, has once again called on the British government to ban imports of goods produced in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Such a move could help preserve the prospects of a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, she added. Thornberry stressed that she did not support a blanket ban on all Israeli goods but believed targeting settlement products could serve as a deterrent to settlement expansions and the displacement of Palestinians.

The UK is drafting legislation to ban imports and exports linked to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, following coordinated

LONDON: Emily Thornberry, chair of the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, has once again called on the British government to ban imports of goods produced in Israeli…