This is the Forward’s coverage of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a point of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Settlements
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Fast Forward US State Dept Says EU Labeling of Settlement Goods Not a Boycott
The U.S. State Department says European Union guidelines requiring the labeling of settlement goods is not tantamount to a boycott. Edgar Vasquez, a State Department spokesman, outlined the U.S. position on separate labeling for goods from the West Bank, the Golan Heights and east Jerusalem to The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. “We do not believe…
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Fast Forward After Cat Feud, Jewish Settlers Push To Deport Crocodiles
When an Israeli government minister shelved his controversial proposal to expel the country’s stray cats this week, it seemed local animals were safe. But an Israeli municipal head has now suggested transferring crocodiles from the West Bank to a foreign country. The Yafit settlement discovered a small croc on its grounds Wednesday, according to Haaretz….
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Fast Forward Hebron Becomes Focus of Conflict as Israel Backs Jewish Settlers
Israel shut down the main radio station in Hebron on Tuesday and turned part of the city in the occupied West Bank into a closed military zone, with troops clamping down on a district that has become the focal point of violent unrest. The city, 30 km (20 miles) south of Jerusalem, is the largest…
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Israel News Are American Donors Helping To Fuel Jerusalem Tensions With Settler Push?
The timing was hardly ideal when the Israeli police evicted five Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Silwan, near the Old City. The October 19 takeover, coming amid a wave of Palestinian attacks on Israeli Jews, only further enraged many Palestinians, who believe that the government is seeking to…
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Fast Forward Israel Moves to Legalize Bloc of Unauthorized West Bank Settlements
Israel intends to make legal a bloc of unauthorized West Bank settlement outposts. The outposts cover approximately two square miles and include hundreds of buildings near the settlement of Shiloh in the north-central West Bank, Haaretz reported Thursday. Plans to authorize the outposts came to light in the state’s response to a Supreme Court petition…
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Fast Forward 15% of West Bank Settlers Are Americans
Fifteen percent of West Bank settlers are American citizens. According to an Oxford University professor, approximately 60,000 American Jews live in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Haaretz reported Thursday. “This provides hard evidence that this constituency is strikingly over-represented, both within the settler population itself and within the total population of Jewish American immigrants…
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Fast Forward White House Vows To Ignore Anti-BDS Provision on Settlements
The Obama administration will ignore a provision in a new law targeting Israel boycotters that includes entities that boycott businesses in the West Bank settlements. “By conflating Israel and ‘Israeli-controlled territories,’ a provision of the Trade Promotion Authority legislation runs counter to longstanding U.S. policy towards the occupied territories, including with regard to settlement activity,”…
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Fast Forward Israeli Killed by Palestinian in West Bank
An Israeli civilian was killed and another wounded in the occupied West Bank on Friday in an attack apparently carried out by a Palestinian gunman, a hospital spokeswoman and security forces said. Police and the military said the attack took place near the Jewish settlement of Dolev in the central West Bank and that the…
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