A new global coalition of civil society organizations spanning Canada and Europe are calling on their governments to urgently sanction the World Zionist Organization (WZO) and its Settlement Division (WZOSD) as part of their sanctions programs against Violent Settler Extremists in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Canadian coalition members submitted a 38-page formal economic sanctions request on behalf of the Global Sanctions Coalition (GSC) to Global Affairs Canada.
The submission calls on the Government of Canada to impose further sanctions under the existing regulations focused on extremist settler violence. While the Canadian government has previously sanctioned individuals involved in illegal settlements, the coalition emphasizes the need to move beyond individual perpetrators to target the central institutions, leaders, and cash flow that enable violent land theft by the Israelis extremist settler movement taking over the West Bank.
“It’s long past time for Canada, and its allies, to use coordinated and targeted economic sanctions against these state-sponsored violent settler organizations. They are the architecture of occupation. Continuing to allow these activities flies in the face of Canada’s recognition of the Palestinian State and commitment to the two-state solution,” said Alex Paterson, of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) .
Since 2022, the WZOSD has notably fueled the mass expulsion and displacement of dozens of Palestinian shepherding communities in the West Bank by offering up privately-owned Palestinian land for the exclusive use of Israeli settlers. Also named are WZOSD officials Gael Greenwald and Hosha’aya Harari, who have openly endorsed the expansion of illegal farming outposts in the West Bank. Greenwald has vowed to “do everything possible to establish, strengthen, and expand” them and praised such outposts as “positive” for Israel, while Harari confirmed WZOSD’s financial backing. (more...)
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