The United Kingdom’s Labour government has barred Swedish climate scholar and Palestinian rights advocate Andreas Malm from entering the country, without explanation, just days before he was scheduled to speak at a conference that will also feature a co-founder of Palestine Action — an organization banned by the UK government on highly dubious grounds. Malm, an author and associate professor…
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On Sunday, the United Kingdom’s Green Party passed a motion defining Zionism as a form of racism. Within hours of the vote, Israel’s foreign ministry responded, slamming the motion and barring Green Party leader Zack Polanski from entering Israel. “The Greens have adopted not only the green of Hamas, but also its ideology: the elimination of the State of Israel through armed struggle,”…
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The United Kingdom, France, and Canada joined forces on Tuesday to ban imports of goods and some services from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where settlers and soldiers are assailing, displacing, and killing Palestinians at an unprecedented rate with the backing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. “Today, we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering…
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On Tuesday, over 130 legal experts sent a six-page letter to U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, stating that the newly-announced sanctions on Israel are insufficient to meet the U.K.’s obligations under international law. On September 8, the U.K. government announced a set of sanctions banning imports from illegal settlements in the West Bank and penalizing companies and individuals providing…
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The United Kingdom, joined by Canada and France, announced this week that they are taking action against Israeli settlements in the West Bank. It’s an announcement that is at once groundbreaking and insufficient. Specifically, the UK said it would suspend export licenses for weapons materially supporting Israel’s illegal occupation; ban imports of Israeli settlement goods, and…
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From London, we revisit the Gaza Tribunal, an independent, nongovernmental inquiry into the United Kingdom’s complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The tribunal, held nearly one year ago, was chaired by our three guests: former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Israeli professor of human rights law Neve Gordon and Palestinian legal scholar Shahd Hammouri. Their new book is…
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