6/ These coercive underpinnings came to the fore in the form of “settlers’ sanctions”, imposed by the Israeli state as a form of economic warfare to further Palestinian dispossession and expropriate more Palestinian land.

5/ The 2024 sanctions were introduced amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and they functioned less as accountability than as deflection.
They reframed state violence as individual misconduct, stigmatised Palestinian resistance and reinforced the coercive underpinnings of Israeli colonization.

4/Those Oslo-era sanctions were tools of “economic peace”: a framework expecting Palestinians to abandon national liberation and self-determination in exchange for individual economic advancement.

3/ The 2024 settler sanctions echo the Oslo era, when Washington used targeted sanctions against Palestinian and Arab organisations, and two Israeli groups it framed as threats to “peace.”.

2/ The Biden Administration’s 2024 sanctions on Israeli settlers were framed as targeting “extremist settler violence” that threatened peace and stability. While praised by some as accountability, they repeat a long US history of using targeted financial sanctions to police the “peace process”.

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