cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/33984182

As illegal Israeli settlements and settler violence escalate across the occupied West Bank, Australia has sanctioned only half of those sanctioned by our allies.

Despite Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s recent announcement of additional sanctions, Australia’s response has not only been minimal, slow and ineffective, with any serious sanctions reform in effect ‘vetoed’ by the Israel Lobby.

Amnesty International has just released a major report detailing Israel’s accelerating annexation and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank – particularly the Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities.

The report is It is a detailed and chilling account of Israel’s state-led and state-funded systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing and settler-army violence. Resulting in an “exponential rise in state-backed settler violence