UK frames West Bank sanctions as essential to preserving a two‑state future

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband defended the UK’s sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank as necessary to safeguard the two-state solution and to signal that settlement expansion cannot go unchecked; he stressed the measures target settlement activity rather than British Jews, rejected the chief rabbi’s claim that the move would endanger Jews in Britain, and highlighted countering antisemitism, while noting international support for the action amid broader Gaza and Palestinian statehood debates.