UK SLAPS SANCTIONS ON DANIELLA WEISS, ‘GODMOTHER’ OF ISRAELI SETTLER MOVEMENT

Tue 20 May 2025:

The UK government has imposed sanctions on Daniella Weiss, a prominent far-right Israeli settler dubbed the “godmother” of the settler movement.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy stated that the sanctions reflect the UK’s commitment to holding extremist settlers accountable for violence and intimidation against Palestinian communities.

Weiss, 79, heads Nachala, a radical settler group also targeted by the sanctions.

For decades, she has played a key role in establishing Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on land seized by Israel during the 1967 Middle East war.

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In the sanctions sheet, she was described as having been involved in “threatening, perpetrating, promoting and supporting, acts of aggression and violence against Palestinian individuals”.

Weiss was recently featured in Louis Theroux’s documentary “The Settlers” – and has been active in the movement to rebuild settlements in Gaza.

Speaking to BBC News last year, she said: “Gaza Arabs will not stay in the Gaza Strip. Who will stay? Jews.”

“The world is wide,” she added. “Africa is big. Canada is big. The world will absorb the people of Gaza. How we do it? We encourage it. Palestinians in Gaza, the good ones, will be enabled. I’m not saying forced, I say enabled because they want to go.”

In response to the sanctions, Weiss said hundreds of families “are prepared and ready to implement settlement in Gaza – immediately”.

Nachala called for “conquest, immigration and settlement in Gaza” and added that it wants Israel to “continue the war until the enemy is destroyed”.

The UK has also imposed sanctions on two additional settlers, Zohar Sabah and Harel David Libi, along with two outposts, Coco’s Farm and Neria’s Farm, and the organization Libi Construction and Infrastructure LTD.

Outposts refer to settlements established without official Israeli government approval.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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