The US president sanctions four Israeli settlers accused of attacking Palestinians.

He signed an executive order on Thursday, saying violence had reached “intolerable levels”.

The sanctions will block the individuals from accessing all US property and other assets.

Violence in the West Bank has spiked since Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel.

  • alvvayson@lemmy.world
    1132·
    5 months ago

    Let’s not forget, this is exactly how we ended segregation in the US and Apartheid in South Africa.

    Activism works. Let your voice be heard.

    This is also why bad actors fill sites like reddit with bots, to try and control the public narrative.

    But bots can’t vote. Bots can’t demonstrate. Bots can’t boycott.

    And also kudos to Lemmy and Lemmy mods for keeping this place relatively free from bots.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 months ago

      And also kudos to Lemmy and Lemmy mods for keeping this place relatively free from bots.

      I wouldn’t count on that. I’m a dev, and I don’t really know how you reliably do that. You can catch low hanging fruit, but it doesn’t take much to evade.