At the JNS international conference in Jerusalem, Israel Ganz — head of the Binyamin Regional Council and chairman of the Yesha Council — responded to calls for boycotts of Judea and Samaria by asserting that companies from the Binyamin area operate in dozens of countries worldwide. "When the world tries to boycott our products, our answer is not to argue — but to grow. That is the real answer to BDS," he said, arguing the region is not isolated.
Israel Ganz, who heads the Binyamin Regional Council (one of the largest settlement blocs in the West Bank) and chairs the umbrella Yesha Council of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, delivered the remarks on Monday at a Jerusalem conference organized by JNS, a Jewish news syndicate. The speech was framed as a direct rebuttal to growing international boycott campaigns targeting Israeli settlements. Ganz did not cite specific boycott measures or trade figures, but claimed that companies based in Binyamin operate commercially in dozens of countries, especially Europe and the United States. The statement underscores a longstanding strategy among settlement leadership: countering diplomatic and economic pressure with a message of normalcy and economic integration, rather than confrontation. No response from boycott-organizing NGOs or Palestinian Authority officials was reported in this batch.
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