The New Dark Age

Friday, 23 August 2024 — Crowd Justice

Update on Stop the UK’s profit from war

On Labour’s 50th day in office, we have written a joint letter with Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), and War on Want condemning the government’s failure to suspend export licences for arms transfers to Israel. 

Every day that this government fails to take action, the UK is materially and politically supporting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.  

Last week, Ministers signing off on arms export licences were served hundreds of pages of legal evidence and testimony of the innumerable violations of international law committed by the Israeli government when we filed our full case. 

The only legal and moral option available to the government in the face of this evidence is to immediately halt all arms export licences for transfer to Israel. They must not wait until our hearing in October.  

In this past week alone, massacres have been committed by Israel through airstrikes on schools and tent encampments sheltering displaced civilians and on one of the last functioning markets, a site essential for civilian survival, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. Such scenes of intolerable suffering and inhumanity are ensured by each day of governmental inaction.  

How much longer will Palestinians have their humanity denied and human rights violated with the support of our government? We’re keeping the pressure on, but we need your help. Will you share this crowdfund with someone in your life you think would agree that these weapons exports simply cannot continue?