UK settlements ban: How conspiracy theory accusing Burnham of courting 'Islamist voters' went global

More than 1,000 Palestinians killed in less than three years in the occupied West Bank. Sixty-six communities erased in a programme of ethnic cleansing incited by senior Israeli ministers. The hope of a viable Palestinian state wrecked by the E1 settlement programme. For years the British government responded to Israeli attacks on Palestinians with statements of condemnation and policies widely accused of being half-measures. But earlier this month Ed Miliband, after just seven weeks as foreign secretary, tore up the script by announcing a trade ban on Israeli settlements.