Everything is so upside down, but even in Israel, where it’s so difficult to express dissent, Haaretz keep on with this.
There are many ways of setters’ appropriation of land, which while condemned internationally, continues to be sanitised/laundered at base. Think this is important as it’s an attempt at a swerve to appropriate vast areas without the ( if only) culpability of violence. Not diminishing that but it’s an added factor. The last 2 paragraphs are asking for intervention. Have excerpts as links not always reliable:
Only last week, Britain announced sanctions on Israel's Farms Association, which coordinates the activities of and support for settler farms in the West Bank, the settlers' flagship project since October 7, 2023. But in Israel, a criminal government is in power, and instead of stopping crime, it whitewashes it: The Defense Ministry and the military are advancing regulations to legalize these farms, in effect laundering land stolen from the Palestinians.
The state's conduct is not surprising; after all, the settlers did not steal these lands on their own. There are around 100 farms in the West Bank today that were established with the encouragement of the state and in coordination with the Israel Defense Forces. The farms are highly popular within the settlement movement, and their numbers have soared in recent years. Their advantage is that they enable the takeover of vast areas without the need for many settlers. As the settler movement leader Ze'ev Hever ("Zambish") has said, the area occupied by these farms is 2.5 times the area occupied by all the hundreds of settlements."
This is how the method worked: Unlike other settlement outposts, the farms were established by allocating grazing land on "state land" (which is, of course, the land not of the State of Israel but rather of the State of Palestine) that the World Zionist Organization's Settlement Division transferred to the settlers.
This allocation was the legal pretext for establishing the farms, but in practice, they seized much larger areas. Only 40 percent of the area controlled by the farms is "state land."
It must be stressed that even this land should never have been allocated, since what Israel considers state land in the West Bank is, in fact, Palestinian land. Today, the farms cover around 250,000 acres.
Israel is taking advantage of the fog of war and the cease-fires to deepen its control over land in the West Bank. The farms are an important tool for expelling and dispossessing Palestinians, and the attempt to legalize them will never make them legal in the eyes of the world.
These are crimes that must be addressed in Israel for what they are, and the international community must do the same
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2026-06-13/ty-article-opinion/as-the-u-k-sanctions-settler-farms-israel-expands-them/0000019e-c27d-dd0a-a19f-d37d52150000