Divide as Canada, UK and France implement ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements

By Global News

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There is divide across the globe as Canada and France – in solidarity with the United Kingdom – have announced a trade ban on goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Many have commended the respective governments’ actions, including the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) – members of which called the decision “the mainstream of international law finally being enforced through policy.” Associate Fellow of Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House Dr Julie Norman, too, said the move matters symbolically because it shows the government rejects “any complicity in the settlement project.” Israeli settler business owners, however, think the ban will hurt their Palestinian workers more than it will themselves. “If I stopped working, I have a country that supports me. I feel sorry for my workers, all these Palestinians (workers) that work here. And then if they stop working here, they don't have a job, they will be unemployed,” the manager of a

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