He warned: “We could find out that Britain has a lot more to lose from these economic restrictions than Israel.” The potential impact of blanket measures targeting all Israeli settlements was raised in a report by Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) last week. In it, the group cautioned the government that a boycott of all trade with Israeli settlements over the Green Line would be “practically and politically impossible”. He also told the committee that he took “seriously” the concerns of British Jews about the unintended consequences of “blunt” measures aimed at targeting Israeli settlements. Yvette Cooper, the previous foreign secretary, suggested that the government was looking to link measures targeting Israeli settlements to increased settlement expansion, in particular around the E1 block.