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U.S. SANCTIONS ALLY OF ISRAELI MINISTER, FUNDRAISERS OVER SETTLERS

By Simon Lewis
April 19, 202411:01 PM GMT+2Updated 15 hours ago
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WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - The United States on Friday imposed sanctions
on an ally of Israel's far-right national security minister and two entities
that raised money for Israeli men accused of settler violence, the latest
actions aimed against those Washington blames for an escalation of violence in
the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The sanctions, in addition to those already imposed on five settlers and two
unauthorized outposts already this year, are the latest sign of growing U.S.
frustration with the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The moves on Friday, which freeze any U.S. assets held by those targeted and
generally bar Americans from dealing with them, hit two organizations that
launched fundraising campaigns to support settlers accused of violence and
targeted by previous sanctions, the Department of the Treasury said in a
statement.
The Biden administration's moves against Israeli settlers have upset right-wing
members of Netanyahu's governing coalition who support the expansion of Jewish
settlements and ultimately the annexation of the West Bank, where Palestinians
envisage a future state.
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They come as the complex relationship between Washington and its ally Israel is
tested by the war in Gaza and as the Biden administration urges Israel to show
restraint in responding to retaliatory strikes by Iran.
Washington sanctioned Ben-Zion Gopstein, founder and leader of the right-wing
group Lehava, which opposes Jewish assimilation with non-Jews and agitates
against Arabs in the name of religion and national security. Gopstein has said
Lehava has 5,000 members.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said members of the group had
engaged in "destabilizing violence affecting the West Bank."
"Under Gopstein’s leadership, Lehava and its members have been involved in acts
or threats of violence against Palestinians, often targeting sensitive or
volatile areas," Miller said in a statement, warning of additional steps if
Israel does not take measures to prevent extremist attacks amid an escalation of
violence in the West Bank in recent days.
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The European Union also said on Friday it had agreed to take sanctions against
Lehava and other groups linked to violent settlers.
A spokesperson for Israel's embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to
a request for comment.
Gopstein, the most prominent Israeli figure targeted by U.S. sanctions, is a
close associate of and has family ties to National Security Minister Itamar
Ben-Gvir, who himself lives in a West Bank settlement.

Ben-Gvir, like Gopstein, was a disciple of the late Meir Kahane, an
ultranationalist rabbi whose Kach movement was listed by Washington as a
specially designated global terrorist organization.
Ben-Gvir on Friday slammed what he called harassment against Lehava and "our
dear settlers who have never engaged in terrorism or hurt anyone," labeling the
allegations against them a "blood libel" by Palestinian groups and anarchists.
"I call on Western countries to stop cooperating with these antisemites and end
this campaign of persecution against the pioneering Zionist settlers," Ben-Gvir
said in a statement released by his office.


CROWDFUNDING

Since the 1967 Middle East war, Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan
River, which Palestinians want as the core of an independent state. It has built
Jewish settlements there that most countries deem illegal. Israel disputes this
and cites historical and Biblical ties to the land.
The Biden administration in February said settlements were inconsistent with
international law, signaling a return to long-standing U.S. policy on the issue
that had been reversed by the previous administration of Donald Trump.
One entity targeted on Friday, Mount Hebron Fund, launched an online fundraising
campaign that raised $140,000 for settler Yinon Levi, the Treasury said, after
he was sanctioned on Feb. 1 for leading a group of settlers that assaulted
Palestinian and Bedouin civilians, burned their fields and destroyed their
property.
It said the second entity, Shlom Asiraich, raised $31,000 on a crowdfunding
website for David Chai Chasdai, who the United States sanctioned for initiating
and leading a riot that included setting vehicles and buildings on fire and
causing damage to property in the Palestinian town of Huwara, resulting in the
death of a Palestinian civilian.
“These types of enforcement actions against entities helping violent settlers
evade U.S. sanctions are what give sanctions teeth," said Michael Schaeffer
Omer-Man, director of research for Israel-Palestine at Democracy for the Arab
World Now, a human rights group that has highlighted efforts by supporters to
evade sanctions against settlers.

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Reporting by Simon Lewis; additional reporting by Henriette Chacar and David
Ljunggren, editing by Susan Heavey, Chizu Nomiyama and Deepa Babington

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