A report from the Washington Post last month doesn’t criticize the Israeli ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, but instead touts the announcement that the Jewish population currently occupying the Palestinian West Bank has grown to 382,031. Israeli nationalists have publicly stated their target for annualized Jewish population growth in the Palestinian state is 4% per year. They’re on target to match that this year.

Illustrating that the terror attacks on Palestinians are widespread and growing, the Times of Israel reported two days ago that another mob of Jewish extremists in the occupied West Bank attacked another Palestinian town. The Israelis attacked a mosque in the village of Aqraba, near Nablu, breaking windows and lighting the house of worship on fire. The Zionist militants also spray painted threats and warnings on the burning mosque. Authorities believe the attack was carried out by a group of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers that have also attacked Christian churches and even pro-peace Jewish groups.

The world responds

Two weeks ago, the government of Belgium condemned Israel over its destruction of a major West Bank power grid responsible for providing much of Palestine with electricity. The military attack on Palestinian utilities is considered by many to be an act of genocide against defenseless civilians. But officials in Belgium are extremely angry at Israel for another reason – the Belgians paid for and built that Palestinian power plant. Wreaking as much misery on the civilian population as possible, Israel went so far as to uproot 70 electric poles and miles of electric wires. Belgium has condemned the act of terror and demanded financial compensation from the Jewish state.

Earlier this week, IB Times reported that the European Union has announced their boycott of Israeli-made dairy products emanating from the occupied West Bank will begin in January. To punish the Jewish state for its ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian lands, the EU will ban the import of products such as powdered milk, eggs and chicken. Israeli authorities shrugged off the announcement saying that the country’s dairy market is a local one and only a small amount of products coming from the Jewish-occupied West Bank are exported to Europe.

Showing that it isn’t only European nations that are stepping up the pressure on Israel, the Kuwait News Agency reported earlier this week that the Arab League had issued a statement of warning to Israel over its current campaign of systematic violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. The statement was released by the Arab League’s Assistant Secretary General Mohammad Subeih and warned that there could be no Middle East peace so long as the ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues.

A report from the Daily Star two days ago details how European Union banks have stopped making loans to Israeli institutions operating in the Palestinian West Bank. And the EU is in the process of requiring all consumer products made in the occupied West Bank to be labeled as such in order to be sold in Europe. The account also details how earlier this month, Sweden officially recognized the sovereign state of Palestine. On Monday, the UK followed suit and also overwhelmingly voted to recognize Palestine. The non-binding vote in the UK’s House of Commons supported the recognition of a Palestinian nation by the lopsided vote of 274-12.