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Who is Andy Slaughter, UK's Labour Party's new anti-Israel Solicitor General? - explainer

Ultimately, Slaughter’s elevation to the role of Solicitor General places an official with a long-standing record of critical positions on Israel into a key governmental advisory post.

|ByALEX CARSON
Britain's Member of Parliament (MP) Andy Slaughter speaks during the Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Commons in London, Britain, June 21, 2023.
PROTESTERS CALL on the Irish government to impose sanctions on Israel, in Dublin, last month. Over the years, Ireland has taken a more anti-Israel position than most European or Western nations, states the writer.

Ireland's parliament passes bill banning imports from Israeli settlements

This makes Ireland the first EU member state to implement such a ban; however, Spain notably started applying restrictions on imports from Israeli settlements in October 2025.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Bezalel Smotrich

The Association for Civil Rights petitions against the tax benefits law for settlements

The petitioners claim that the criteria were artificially tailored while silencing the positions of the Tax Authority and the Budget Department, which opposed the move.

|ByURI SELA
AN AERIAL view shows the Cave of the Patriarchs, a site sacred to Jews and Muslims, in the city of Hebron, November 2, 2020.

Smotrich claims historic Hebron shift as Israel advances new building plans

This is the first approval of its kind since the signing of the Hebron Agreement in 1997, under which restrictions related to the Jewish community were subject to approval by the Hebron municipality.

|ByHODAYA RAN

From Trump to Biden; from West Bank annexation to Israeli apartheid

The settlement movement is now almost precisely where it was four years ago and in some ways it is in an even worse position.

JANUARY 20, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Donald Trump and Joe Biden

UK, Egypt warn Israeli settlement activity could harm peace efforts

Plans were advanced just three days before US President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office on January 20.

JANUARY 18, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
A general view picture shows a section of Itamar, a Jewish settlement, in the foreground as Nablus is seen in the background, in the West Bank June 15, 2020.

Netanyahu had 11 years to legalize West Bank outposts and failed

Can Gantz be the scapegoat for a 30-year issue?

JANUARY 5, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
The Young Settlement Forum's encampment is seen outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu may approve last burst of settler housing plans prior to Biden

The number rises to 12,159 if one includes the advancement of 3,196 homes this year in the highly contentious E1 section of the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement.

DECEMBER 28, 2020ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
A view of the West Bank

US to label all of West Bank Area C goods 'made in Israel'

"Goods produced in some areas of the West Bank shall be marked as products of  “West Bank” and goods produced in Gaza shall be marked  as products of  "Gaza."

DECEMBER 24, 2020ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, visit Psagot Winery in the hills north of Jerusalem, last month.

Knesset gives initial approval to legalization of 65 West Bank outposts

The Young Settlements Forum called on Netanyahu and Gantz to shortcut the process by holding a government vote on the matter before the country's heads to a fourth election.

DECEMBER 16, 2020ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
The settlement of Kfar Eldad as seen from above.

Israel must annex West Bank prior to Trump exit, coalition chair says

Palestinians can continue to live here, he explained as long as they do not participate in terrorism.

DECEMBER 10, 2020ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
The candles are lit on stage for a Hanukkah ceremony held virtually in the Jordan Valley.

Gantz delays government vote on West Bank outpost legalization

Right-wing politicians and settler leaders are pushing to advance the issue now prior to US President Donald Trump’s departure from the White House in January.

DECEMBER 10, 2020ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Benny Gantz

PLO member Ashrawi: 'Made in Israel' endorses land theft, plunder

Ashrawi also took aim at the Trump administration's willingness to provide separate designations of products coming from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

NOVEMBER 20, 2020ByCODY LEVINE
PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi

Cabinet approves new Gaza border region town for first time in years

The town is currently referred to by the temporary name "Hanun" and will be located east of the Kibbutz Sa'ad.

NOVEMBER 8, 2020ByTZVI JOFFRE, IDAN ZONSHINE
Tamir Idan, head of the Sdot Negev Regional Council, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to approve a new settlement in the Gaza envelope region.