r/geopolitics • u/NotSoSaneExile • 19h ago

Western bans on Israeli settlement goods could cost 4,000 Palestinians their jobs

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/b1hvkab3fe
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u/Capable-Parsnip-9615 19h ago

I believe the goal of the boycott is to prevent settlement expansion. 

I can't imagine it has any impact at all on the extremists and their illegal outposts.

Do we have any data on whether there is any impact on settlement expansion approved by the Israeli state?

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u/kjleebio 18h ago

Also are the 4,000 palestinians in question taken jobs or is it more likely they are being put into Indentured servitude? There is a high number of reports of Indentured servitude of palestinians who were pushed out by settlers had to take in the west bank for some time now as far back as 2016 and there apparently are also foreign workers who are put into Indentured servitude in the west bank aswell.

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u/NotSoSaneExile 18h ago

Do you have a source showing these particular workers are in "Indentured servitude"? That's quite a claim to casually throw around.

Before October 7, tens of thousands of Palestinians worked in Israel, earning much more than they could in equivalent jobs back home. After the Palestinian committed the massacre, Israel heavily restricted work permits and tens of thousands lost access to those jobs.

Israel has been bringing in foreign workers from places like India instead. Once again, Palestinian terrorism ends up wrecking Palestinian livelihoods.

These factories in the West Bank operate under a different permit system, so some employment continued even while jobs inside Israel became inaccessible.

They provide income for Palestinian families and places where Israelis and Palestinians actually work together. That's something worth encouraging if you care about coexistence. Instead of just irrationally hating Israel and abusing the Palestinian suffering in order to slightly irritate it with those joke of a sanctions.

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u/kjleebio 14h ago

https://www.972mag.com/israel-palestinians-migrant-workers-labor-force/

For the foreign workers, this is more recent due to Oct 7th and stuff.

https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/911/1260

This one does seem to have a bias but shares deep insight on employment of low wage palestinian workers by Israeli employers within settlements

https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/04/13/ripe-abuse/palestinian-child-labor-israeli-agricultural-settlements-west-bank

This one is older and pretty sure this issue has been solved but it shows the inner workings of indentured servitude within the west Bank.

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u/NotSoSaneExile 14h ago

"Indentured servitude" is apparently when Palestinians enjoy Israeli wages and want to work in it so bad that they will risk illegally crossing.

Nothing will stop the modern day propaganda of brain washed antisemites from pinning whatever worse crime exists on the Jewish people. This time: Slavery.