An Israeli man was “very surprised” to find he was sanctioned by the Biden administration on Thursday after he was confused for someone else with a similar name.
Aviad Shlomo Sarid, an active Israel Defense Forces reservist serving on Israel’s northern border, was sanctioned in President Joe Biden’s latest batch of sanctions on Israeli civilians who are accused of violence in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank. The sanctions were meant to target a man named Shlomo Sarid, and various other individuals and farms with which Aviad Shlomo Sarid is not affiliated.
“While he is defending Israel, the American administration has imposed sanctions on him by mistake,” Davidi Ben Zion, the deputy head of the Samaria Regional Council who is helping Sarid get free of the sanctions, told The Daily Wire. “It’s very unfortunate and especially disturbing.”
“Every citizen…
