{"id":487082,"date":"2026-06-11T06:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/487082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:25:26","slug":"regavim-to-take-legal-action-against-eu-canada-after-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/487082\/","title":{"rendered":"Regavim to take legal action against EU, Canada after sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Zionist NGO Regavim will be taking legal action against Canada and the EU following the imposition of sanctions, Naomi Kahn, director of the International Division at Regavim, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, France, New Zealand, and Australia announced new sanctions<\/a> against several individuals and organizations in the West Bank whom they accuse of violence against Palestinians. As part of the announcement, Canada also imposed sanctions on the Regavim Movement.<\/p>\n

Regavim is a Zionist NGO dedicated to protecting Israel\u2019s national lands and resources. It mainly acts to prevent illegal seizure of Israeli state land, and to protect the rule of law in matters pertaining to land-use policy in the State of Israel.<\/p>\n

Unlike some of the other individuals and entities sanctioned yesterday, Regavim has never been accused of violence against Palestinians. Ironically, in fact, it is known for publishing a report debunking the very concept of settler violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cSanctioning civil society organizations who have absolutely no connection to actual violence or were never accused of violence, have never been accused of any illegal activity whatsoever, is an attack on the state of Israel as a whole, and particularly in our case, it\u2019s an attack on Israel\u2019s judicial system,\u201d Kahn told the Post.<\/p>\n

\"PalestinianPalestinian demonstrators burn an Israeli flag during a protest against US position on Israeli settlements, in the West Bank city of Nablus, November 26, 2019. (credit: NASSER ISHTAYEH\/FLASH90)Regavim sanctioned for lobbying for destruction of Palestinian property<\/p>\n

The EU and Canada both said they sanctioned Regavim for \u201clobbying for the demolition of Palestinian property and an EU-funded Palestinian primary school at the Jabbet al Dhib village, near Bethlehem, in the West Bank<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kahn disputed this, saying, the school was an \u201cillegal structure that was built by the European Union on Israeli state land in Area C, the area under Israeli jurisdiction, and the court found grounds to demolish that structure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, that just means that they don\u2019t like the court\u2019s judgment, and that means that they\u2019re sending a message, not very subtle, to Israel\u2019s judges: \u2018If you vote against the European Union\u2019s activities, even though they\u2019re illegal and everyone knows it, we will sanction you next, and we will sanction the entire state of Israel anytime they do something that we don\u2019t like, even when it\u2019s against the law [to sanction in a particular case],\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a question of whether Regavim<\/a> is or isn\u2019t violent,\u201d Kahn emphasized, \u201cOf course it isn\u2019t. We are a research think tank and policy and lobbying group.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kahn told the Post that Regavim considers it important to push back against this \u201centire affront to Israel\u2019s integrity as a democracy with a functioning judicial system,\u201d and against Israel\u2019s sovereignty over territory over which is sovereign under international law<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an attack on Israel\u2019s sovereignty, on its judiciary and on its legitimacy,\u201d Kahn noted.<\/p>\n

Thus, as mentioned, they will be taking immediate action to file an appeal and a counterclaim.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, there\u2019s a bureaucratic process with all of these sanctions, in which you can appeal the decision to sanction you, so we\u2019re going to do that \u2013 but it essentially has very little chance of succeeding. But in addition to that, we intend to file counter suits because this is a defamation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are somehow including us in a list of people that they\u2019re accusing of violence where there\u2019s absolutely no proof, no hint, no involvement whatsoever in anything [we do] that could be construed as violent. They simply don\u2019t like our political stance. So we\u2019re going to be filing counter suits against this.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, Regavim will call on the government of Israel to push back against sanctions on the diplomatic playing field.<\/p>\n

EU sanctions are attempt to clear path for Palestinian state, NGO says<\/p>\n

Kahn believes that the sanctions are an attempt to clear the way for the creation of a Palestinian state. \u201cAnd it is clear that Israeli voters, Israelis who actually live here and will have to pay the price of that sort of thing, do not support the creation of a Palestinian state<\/a>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Certainly not now, since the Palestinian Authority has been proven to support terrorism, continues to pay terrorists, and continues to encourage the eradication of the State of Israel. So there\u2019s no peace partner. And by the European Union simply forcing this situation, they are endangering our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s just hypothetically propose that every single Jew decided to leave Judea and Samaria. Will that be enough? No, because that\u2019s not really what they want, what they want really is to create a state of Palestine there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIsraelis know what the results of that will be. We saw it on October 7. We know that a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria will be the end of the state of Israel,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Zionist NGO Regavim will be taking legal action against Canada and the EU following the imposition of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[972,245,1685,2226,42,1630,43,2129,8446,67,2200,134563,4321,77721,40,38,41,39,1299,77],"class_list":["post-487082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-headlines","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-ngo","tag-norway","tag-palestinian-statehood","tag-palestinians","tag-regavim","tag-sanctions","tag-settler-violence","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-kingdom","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}