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🇵🇸 NATIONAL MARCH FOR PALESTINE This Saturday 18 July ❌ No to war 🛑 End the Genocide 💵 Sanctions now Meet Brighton Station 10:15am to travel as a bloc on 10:28 to St Pancras

This is your legacy on the occupied Palestinian territory, Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. History will remember your complicity. Despite a partial arms suspension in 2024, Keir Starmer's government has continued to enable Israel's atrocities against Palestinians, their families and children through the supply of F-35 fighter jet parts. Nothing can change the horrors Palestinians have faced. But the next Prime Minister has an opportunity to put an end to the UK Government's role as an ally to atrocities. The UK Government must: 🔴 Suspend all arms sales to Israel 🔴 Suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement 🔴 Ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements To the next Prime Minister: what will your plaque say?

The International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court, ruled back in 2004 – nearly a quarter of a century ago – that Israel’s Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem violated international law and needed to be dismantled. It reiterated that demand in a decision two years ago in which it identified Israel as an apartheid state ruling over Palestinians. It warned states to “take steps to prevent trade or investment relations that assists in the maintenance of the illegal situation created by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory”. And yet the West has done nothing tangible year after year as the settlements have stolen more land from Palestinians, made their lives there ever more miserable, and trashed any chance of the West’s supposed ambition of two states living alongside each other. Remember this when Israel’s apologists tell you to wait for the same court’s definitive ruling – in a year or two, or maybe three – on what it deemed in early 2024 to be a “plausible” genocide in Gaza, just three months into Israel’s mass slaughter there. Not only will any such ruling be far too late to make any difference to the victims of the genocide, but the US, Britain and Europe will do precisely no more to punish Israel for this crime of crimes – one we can see for ourselves without an ICJ ruling – than they have done in punishing Israel for the settlements. Why? Because most western states no more wish to impose a penalty on Israel for its crimes than you would want to amputate a healthy arm. If they refuse to lift a finger to stop a live-streamed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, why on earth would anyone imagine they are ready to do anything to stop Israel’s violent settlers ethnically cleansing the West Bank? The settlements are as deeply integrated into Israel as your arm is attached to your shoulder. And in turn, Israel is as much the punching fist of the imperial West’s war machine as the City of London – and its former tax-haven colonies – are the beating heart of the imperial West’s financial machine. Western elites cannot imagine a world without Israel as their military thug in the oil-rich Middle East any more than you can imagine life without your arm. That explains why no one really believed that EU foreign ministers, meeting once again this week to discuss banning settlement products – the bare minimum they have long been obligated to do under international law – would reach an agreement. More than 100 legal scholars had earlier written to the European Commission’s top trade and foreign policy officials stressing the EU’s “international legal obligation”. But as everyone predicted, EU ministers kicked the can down the road – until at least October, when they agreed to more talks about talks. This is an extract from my latest article The West won't punish the settlements. Its two-state solution was always a sham. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

Palestine Action targets Magellan Aerospace in Queens, New York, smashing their windows and spray painting their building. The aircraft manufacturing company produces tail assemblies for F-35 fighter jets, used by the U.S. and the Israeli occupation. Via: pal_action_glbl

INTRODUCTION TO DABKE! ~This Sunday, 19 July ~11:00-12:30 ~Old Palesteine House, BN1 4AA Come dance, learn & move together! 🇵🇸

The Israeli side at the Rafah crossing is vandalizing and throwing away travelers' luggage at the Rafah crossing in a major act of humiliation to which the travelers are subjected.

Israel to grant millions to settler group sanctioned by U.K., France and Canada haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

"Without an armored car, without a bulletproof vest, how do I go to my land?" CNN's @JDiamond1 accompanies the father of an American citizen killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank last year. Their journey turned dangerous when armed settlers ambushed the convoy.

Settler harassment of Palestinians in Taybeh, West Bank 🇵🇸

Palestinian children and women break down in tears as they watch Israeli occupation forces demolish their home in Khirbet al-Deirat, Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank.

🚨BREAKING: With @Imran_HussainMP and 80 other MPs and Lords, I have written to the Foreign Secretary calling for comprehensive sanctions on Israel. The world’s top court is clear. Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal - and Governments must act now to end it!

The #EU can help end #Israel’s impunity for violations of international law and genocide against Palestinians by suspending its trade agreement. Join me and call on @_FriedrichMerz and @GiorgiaMeloni to support the suspension. amnesty.org/en/petition/su…

Utterly shocking but not a surprise. Impunity breeds hubris. All states and people who care for Freedom must rise up in defense of the ICC and int'l justice now, before it's too late. It's rule of law or barbarism.

@SecRubio Pariah nation

The International Criminal Court seeks to become the unaccountable arbiter of a new global law — empowered to prosecute and arrest our citizens at will and existentially threaten American sovereignty. We will teach the ICC the full meaning of American resolve.

It is high time the 🇪🇺 follow its own trade policy and ban trade of all goods and services from 🇮🇱’s illegal settlements in the West Bank. @ecfr ecfr.eu/article/the-eu…

🚨HORRIFIC: Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian child 8 years old Tala Abu Matar in central Gaza, yesterday Since the Oct.10 ceasefire 1,098 Palestinians including 260 children have been killed‼️

Israel uses child soldiers to attack Palestinians. This kid was one of the four people participating in the ambush on us. Terror outposts often recruit children from orphanages, brainwash them and use them to attack Palestinians. Israeli government directly financially supports this, sending these children to outposts for "reeducation". There is an institutional pipeline turning children into terrorists. This is child abuse of the highest order.

I spoke with an IDF soldier immediately after this attack. He didn’t know outposts are illegal under Israeli law, didn’t know the settlers who attacked us were living in Area A, and believed the Palestinian home they’d occupied belonged to them. Also sounds pretty American to me!

The Brighton mural made for the June 13th counter to the far-right demo has now been updated for their intended return on August 8th at Hove Lawns. The Stop The Genocide remains ❤️