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British Foreign Secretary rejects suggestions that sanctions imposed on Israel put British Jews at risk [SOUND]

# British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has rejected the suggestion that British Jews are at risk following the sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Britain has imposed a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements, accusing Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of committing ethnic cleansing. British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis believes the sanctions will succeed only in bolstering the very extremism the government seeks to target. Miliband says any person who targets British Jews because of the actions of the Israeli government practises antisemitism:

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