Suspension of arms export licenses to Israel is welcome but inadequate and shows that pressure must be maintained. Yesterday’s announcement by Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, that 30 arms export licenses to Israel will be suspended, does not go far enough. The Foreign Secretary has finally accepted that there is a clear risk that UK arms …
One hundred thousand expected to march in call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to UK arms sales to Israel Hundreds of lawyers and politicians have warned that UK risks being complicit in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza Alicia Kearns, Chair of Foreign Affairs Select Committee, has revealed that Foreign Office has received …
Dear Prime Minister, As you fly off to Washington for your first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, we wanted to highlight a number of issues that should be part of your agenda. Last week, speaking to Andrew Marr, you reinforced the importance of the special relationship between the US and the UK, indicating that …
This is an urgent appeal to help save the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the northern Negev. The Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu was reported to be sending his army’s bulldozers in at dawn on Tuesday 22nd November to demolish this peaceful Bedouin village in Israel. This has now been delayed, reportedly due to strong …
This is an urgent request for action as the communities of two Bedouin villages are under the immediate threat of demolition. Earlier this year we wrote to you about two Bedouin villages under threat of demolition. Almost six thousand of you wrote to your MPs asking them to demand the foreign secretary protests in the strongest terms …