"‘Badge of honour’: Israeli settlers shrug off global condemnation

Activists claim sanctions fail to reflect either the depth of violence or state complicity in settler attacks.

When the European Union issued its latest tranche of sanctions against Israeli settler groups and their leaders, Regavim, founded in part by the country’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, these groups welcomed the measures as a “badge of honour.”

Another sanctioned figure, Daniella Weiss, whose movement, Nachala, has held conferences on the Gaza border to discuss plans for settlement expansion into the occupied Palestinian territory, likewise dismissed the European penalties as “ridiculous” and “banal”."
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/6/badge-of-honour-israeli-settlers-shrug-off-global-condemnation

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‘Badge of honour’: Israeli settlers shrug off global condemnation

Activists claim sanctions fail to reflect either the depth of violence or state complicity in settler attacks.

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Israeli cabinet 'secretly approves record number' of new West Bank settlements
Report on i24NEWS reveals new settlements were approved during war on Iran but kept classified

Israel’s cabinet has secretly approved a record number of new settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli news channel i24NEWS.

Amid the war on Iran, the government ratified 34 new settlements in a single decision – more than half the total approved during the previous record-setting year of 2025.

Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are widely regarded as illegal under international law.

Sources told i24NEWS that the Israeli army’s chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, who attended the meeting, did not explicitly oppose the plan but expressed concerns over limited personnel and suggested phasing the rollout to a smaller number of sites at a time.

The cabinet initially kept the decision classified, but details were leaked on Thursday with approval from the censor.
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-cabinet-secretly-approves-record-number-new-west-bank-settlements

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Israeli cabinet 'secretly approves record number' of new West Bank settlements

Report on i24NEWS reveals new settlements were approved during war on Iran but kept classified

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Fifa ‘negeert schaamteloos internationaal recht’

Mensenrechtenorganisaties hebben het besluit van de Fifa om niks te doen flink gekraakt. Fairsquare noemde de houding van de bond in deze kwestie ‘vanaf het eerste moment laf en niet oprecht’. Steve Cockburn, plaatsvervangend directeur van Amnesty International, zei dat de Fifa “faalt in het handhaven van zijn eigen reglementen en het internationaal recht op schaamteloze wijze negeert”.

Niet alleen Fairsquare en Amnesty stellen dat het klip-en-klaar is dat de Westelijke Jordaanoever Palestijns grondgebied is. Vorig jaar schreef een groep prominente academici, historici en juristen, onder wie hoogleraren internationaal recht, al een brief aan de Fifa over wedstrijden in Israëlische nederzettingen op de Jordaanoever. Volgens de ondertekenaars, onder wie ook Israëliërs, was er sprake van een illegale bezetting door Israël.

En dus hoefde de Fifa zich volgens hen helemaal niet bezig te houden met de precieze juridische status van het gebied, maar met de vraag of Israëlische clubs in nederzettingen door zouden moeten gaan met het spelen van wedstrijden.
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https://www.trouw.nl/sport/fifa-geeft-de-palestijnse-voetbalbond-het-nakijken-in-ruzie-over-israelische-clubs-op-de-westoever~b72ebb9e/

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Fifa geeft de Palestijnse voetbalbond het nakijken in ruzie over Israëlische clubs op de Westoever

De Fifa gaat voetbalclubs in Israëlische nederzettingen op de Westelijke Jordaanoever niet uitsluiten van profcompetities. De Palestijnse voetbalbond vindt die clubs illegaal. De wereldvoetbalbond vindt de kwestie te ingewikkeld.

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#Israel wants to show the #world that it can get away with anything. It wants to totally destroy #Iran not only as a #state, but as a #people.

The #Gulf #monarchies are #complicit. They are #colonizers who allow #Western #finance and #USmilitary bases on their #land.

#Khamenei could have fled. He chose #martyrdom instead. Iran has always stood against colonizers, and faced #punishment for it bravely. They support #Palestine and oppose the #USA, Israel, #Europe, and the GCC.

#HandsOffIran

#Europe and the #Gulf monarchies have Iranian #blood on their hands. They have been with the #USA and #Israel the entire time. They are brutal, #authoritarian #colonizers. They do not get to claim #innocence now.

#Africa knows this directly. The #perpetrators of #genocide in #Sudan and #Congo are the same perpetrators of #war in #Iran.

#Alcohol isn't inherently #subversive.

Making alcohol more widespread is a tactic #colonizers have deliberately used to constrain #resistance. Alcohol makes it harder to be aware of what's happening and react with #agency and deliberation. It also keeps you dependent on a very #capitalist industry, giving it your #money. And structuring #social life around alcohol excludes a lot of #disabled and recovering people and #kids--people with direct experiences being #oppressed by #empire.

I am so sick to my stomach after hearing about the centuries of atrocities committed by #colonizers and #whitesupremacists... especially after finding out that SA, pillaging, theft of land, and slavery that there were even more things that I thought were unthinkable... going beyond what I think I've been somewhat desensitized to... #cannibalism and #angelstrumpet adds yet another layer that I was unprepared to deal with.

As I stand with both my privileges and marginalizations I want to puke...