Israeli civil rights group calls for US intervention against Irish bill banning settlement goods
Israeli civil rights group Shurat HaDin has urged U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to intervene against Ireland’s newly approved Israeli Settlements (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2026, calling the measure discriminatory and a form of “economic warfare” against Israel.
The bill would criminalize the import of goods produced by West Bank Jewish settlements, including east Jerusalem. Shurat HaDin said Ireland has not imposed similar restrictions on goods from other disputed territories, including Northern Cyprus, Western Sahara, Tibet or Russian-controlled areas.
“If Ireland’s true legal principle were opposition to commerce from occupied or disputed territories, consistency would require universal application. Instead, Ireland has chosen selective enforcement against the world’s only Jewish state,” the group wrote in its letter.
Shurat HaDin President Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said the legislation gives legitimacy to anti-Israel boycott campaigns.
“When a European government singles out Jewish commerce from historically Jewish lands for criminalization while ignoring every other territorial dispute on earth, that is not policy — that is prejudice,” she said.
