Activist Omar Barghouti called the UK’s actions “largely performative” while Israeli officials responded with fury.

The United Kingdom, France, and Canada joined forces on Tuesday to ban imports of goods and some services from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where settlers and soldiers are assailing, displacing, and killing Palestinians at an unprecedented rate with the backing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. “Today, we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering…

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