The UK Government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation poses a grave threat to these fundamental rights and represents a dangerous expansion of counterterrorism powers.
After more than a year and a half of bombardment, siege, and systematic starvation in Gaza, it is becoming harder than ever to grasp the true scale of Israel’s atrocities there.
Sanctions should not stop at ministers who incite violence; they must extend to all those who are orchestrating and directing these policies. The UK must also finally ban trade with illegal settlements.
In the face of daily mass atrocities in Gaza, tougher and more comprehensive measures are required to compel urgent, on-the-ground change and pave the way to just and lasting solutions.
The illegal settlement project has long been recognised as undermining the viability of a Palestinian state and as an impediment to peace. But as we try to find a way to a better future, we…
Like very many British Jews, I am not a pawn for pro-Israeli propaganda to use in their grotesque political game. There are plenty of Jewish voices in the UK that show the strength of pro-Palestinian…
We discuss the weaknesses of the motion that we otherwise support because it calls for the immediate recognition of Palestine, an end to arms exports to Israel, and upholds international law.
LDFP & ICJP co-hosted events which attracted 250 attendees, includi the party CEO, the party Deputy Leader, at least 23 MPs, several peers, councillors and assembly members as well as former MEPs.
A state with any respect for international law ought to impose sanctions on sales of arms to Israel, and the UK has a legal obligation to do this, not merely to impose a ban on…
To no-one’s surprise, Israel’s invasion and subsequent de facto annexation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank is illegal.
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…
The outcome of this war must be that Israel has no power of veto over Recognition of the State if Palestine.
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.
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.
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…
