13 U.S. State Attorneys General Warn U.K. and Netherlands Over Israel Settlement Sanctions, Threatening Trade Retaliation and Divestment
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird on November 9 led 13 Republican state attorneys general in a letter to the British and Dutch ambassadors to the United States, demanding that both countries drop sanctions targeting economic activity linked to Israeli settlements.
The letter warned that if the United Kingdom and the Netherlands continue sanctioning settlement-related economic activity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, they could face U.S. trade retaliation, and that U.S. states could divest from British and Dutch companies.
The other signatories are the attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
The United Kingdom has sanctioned illegal settlement activity and expansion, while the Netherlands restricts dealings with extremist settlers and organisations that support them. Neither embassy had publicly responded to the letter.
Source: Office of the Iowa Attorney General
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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