Update 20 July 2024
To no-one’s surprise, Israel’s invasion and subsequent de facto annexation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank is illegal.
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2024 Lib Dem Friends of Palestine conference motion
Conference notes that the Hamas attack of 7th October 2023 and the on-going Israeli destruction of Gaza which followed are but the latest, and most devastating, episode in a cycle of recurring violence in Israel and Palestine,…
Lib Dems support Palestine
This election is your chance to make a difference for Palestinians. Vote Liberal Democrat, and you will vote for a stronger presence in Parliament for a party that supports Palestinians. We will push the next…
The failure to defeat Hamas
Recognition of their state by Britain would be a hugely important moment for the Palestinians, and a blow to those in Israel who want to believe world opinion backs the idea that ‘all Palestinians are…
Ed Davey: The UK must give the ICC our full support
Ed Davey supports the arrest of Israel's PM Netanyahyu
Update 26 April 2024
The outcome of this war must be that Israel has no power of veto over Recognition of the State if Palestine.
Update 2 Nov 2023
When UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the attacks didn’t happen in a vacuum, he was reminding Israel’s leaders that its past treatment of the Palestinians needs to be taken into account.
Update 26 April 2024
Absurdities like wooden crutches and tent poles had to be unloaded (because they might be “repurposed” as weapons) and even a consignment of nappies refused entry.
Update 12 April 2024
There is mounting evidence that the British people want arms sales to Israel to be stopped (62% in the most recent poll), but as with the hundreds of thousands marching at rallies up and down…
LDFP update 12 April 2024
There is mounting evidence that the British people want arms sales to Israel to be stopped (62% in the most recent poll), but as with the hundreds of thousands marching at rallies up and down…
Lib Dem leader calls for UK to suspend arms sales to Israel 3 April 2024
For years Liberal Democrats have called for far tougher control of arms exports, so that British arms are not being used in conflicts such as the devastating one in Gaza. The UK Government must take…
Lib Dems welcome UN Security Council motion for an immediate ceasefire 28 March 2024
The LibDems welcome the UN Security Council motion calling for an immediate, sustainable ceasefire in Gaza. But this must be more than a temporary ceasefire. It’s vital that the UK government use this to move…
Update 24th March 2024
Survivors of the Israeli destruction of Gaza are now being starved, and our government still won’t admit that Israel’s tactics are illegal, or use the word genocide.
Gaza: Hunger Alleviation 18 March 2024
In Gaza we are no longer on the brink of famine, we are in a state of famine, affecting thousands of people … This is unacceptable. Starvation is used as a weapon of war. Israel…
Lib Dem Foreign Affairs spokesperson Layla Moran’s Spring 2024 conference speech
She described her family’s pre 1948 life in Palestine and the catastrophe that followed. She said that the war was serving the wicked fusion of Netanyahu’s government, calling their rhetoric genocidal.