We are paying for illegal West Bank Settlements

I heard about that today.
Keir Starmer was asked about this today at PMQs. He said the government is actively investigating the matter. Stated that such funding is unacceptable.

I think the MP is being very brave.

Any charities aiding illegal.action should be stopped and have their licenses revoked.

I don’t think the Charities Commission is fit for purposes.

Any charities donating money to illegal activities abroad should be publicly discredited and shut down.

Fallingstar

Any charities donating money to illegal activities abroad should be publicly discredited and shut down.

I think in this particular example it is going to prove even more difficult than it is usually.

I receive regular updates as I am on Haaretz mailing list.
Here is one from an hour ago:

"France bars Smotrich from country for ‘actively promoting annexation’ of West Bank

Britain, Canada, France, Australia and Norway announced on Tuesday they will sanction six Israeli right-wing groups and one far-right activist, describing the measures as a "coordinated action" meant "to hold extremist settlers accountable" for "violence against Palestinian civilians." Those targeted would face asset freezes and travel bans, which are meant to "disrupt the flows of finance" that have allowed them to "act with impunity in the West Bank," the countries said.

France also said it will sanction Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and bar him from entering the country for "actively promoting the annexation of the West Bank." Last week, Smotrich ordered the IDF to begin preparations to demolish the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar ahead of settlement construction in the area. In the U.K., Foreign Secretary Cooper for the first time issued official guidance explicitly advising businesses against trade with illegal Israeli settlements.

In Italy, prosecutors are investigating Israel's far-right police minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, over the treatment of activists who took part in last month's Gaza flotilla, a judicial source told Haaretz on Monday, adding that investigators are looking into allegations of kidnapping, torture and sexual assault of flotilla activists by Israeli authorities. On Friday, France's national anti-terrorism prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation into similar charges

In Israel, the Netanyahu government is completing a broad move for the wholesale legalization and budgeting of illegal outposts beyond the Green Line, some in enclaves deep within Area A, which is fully administered and secured by the Palestinian Authority, and Area B, where the PA shares defense duties with Israeli authorities.

As part of this move, the government passed a decision in an urgent telephone vote last week to allocate over 100 million shekels ($34 million) for the planning of outposts. In the coming days, it plans to approve the allocation of over a billion shekels for the establishment and development of the outposts under the definition of "temporary sites," even before they are fully legalized.

Last week's decision, which passed under the technical title of Planning Legalization of Locales, included a budget of 125 million shekels to promote "initial planning legalization for settlements in the rural area of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank], which the security cabinet decided to legalize by December 2025."

Gosh Wyllow, how did this slip through the net?

This is extremely alarming, isn't it?
I wonder how much more we don't know.

Chocolatelovinggran

This is extremely alarming, isn't it?
I wonder how much more we don't know.

A Guardian article from February last year explaining how well-know holiday lets firms are advertising apartments etc in occupied settlements.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/27/seized-settled-let-how-airbnb-and-bookingcom-help-israelis-make-money-from-stolen-palestinian-land

So that people can go on holiday to a such a place?
And people actually buy into that? 🙄