Sanctions Won’t Move Settler Hardliners

Targeted economic measures against West Bank settlements are unlikely to change the behavior of ideologically driven settlers or the political actors who enable them. To produce policy change, measures must alter the incentives of mainstream Israeli voters in cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa, not merely punish frontier outposts. — This reframes debates about sanctions from symbolic signaling to requiring politically consequential pressure on domestic constituencies that actually influence the problematic actors.