TEL AVIV (Dispatches) -- Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar has announced a package of retaliatory measures against Britain, including the closure of the British consulate in occupied East Al-Quds and an entry ban on 11 British MPs, after London imposed sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. 
Saar said the measures would also strip UK representatives of their place at the so-called International Gaza Support Center and bring British training of Palestinian forces to an end.
Among the 11 barred by Israel is Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, who brushed off the ban and wrote on X that “Given that this is a fascist regime presiding over genocide, apartheid and an illegal occupation, I’ll wear it as a badge of honor.”
She said the decision would not silence her, and that “If anything, this ban only strengthens my resolve to keep speaking out,” adding that the British government continues to “arm, trade and cooperate with an entity committing genocide against Palestinians.” 
Sultana said she looked forward to visiting Al-Quds “not as an occupied city, but as part of a free and liberated Palestine – a single state with equal rights for all, where Palestinians enjoy the freedom, dignity and equality that have been denied to them for far too long.”
Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labor leader also barred by Israel, responded on X that “Israel’s genocide cannot go unpunished.” He said repeated visits to every part of Palestine had shown him “the horrors of occupation, as well as the resilience and humanity of the Palestinian people.”
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced the measures in the House of Commons on the same day, telling MPs that the UK now accepts that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are being subjected to “ethnic cleansing” at the hands of Israeli “settler terrorists.” 
Britain will also bar goods made in the settlements from its market and refuse new weapons export licenses that “materially contribute to the occupation,” while the 30 arms export licenses already suspended remain “fully in place.” 
Sanctions will fall on individual settlers who have “supported or incited acts of violence” against Palestinians, and on those bankrolling settlement expansion, who Miliband said “will face the full force of UK sanctions.” 
Illegal settlement property can also no longer be advertised for sale in Britain.
Aside from Britain, 11 other states, Canada, France, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden signed a joint statement the same day setting out plans to restrict trade in settlement goods nationally, at European level, or both. Ireland and Spain already have such measures in force.