After decades in which European governments denounced Israeli settlements while trading with the businesses that sustain them, an import ban establishes a meaningful principle. But it also preserves a distinction that has become impossible to defend

The move comes amid a stalemate in a French-Swedish initiative to impose EU sanctions on products from the settlements. The U.K. reportedly seeks to limit the measures' impact on…

The countries cited unprecedented settler violence and settlement expansion, saying Israeli policies are undermining the prospects for a two-state solution