Jeremy Corbyn

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Banned from Israel; criticized UK contracts to settlement-linked firms

Britain announced on September 8 that it would ban imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and build a sanctions regime against settlement activity over six to nine months. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament that settler groups were carrying out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians with Israel's government turning a blind eye. Israel ordered the British consulate in East Jerusalem closed and banned 11 UK MPs.

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