Ending UK complicity, securing justice for Palestinians

Speakers:

• Yasmin Nimsay, a UK organiser with the Palestinian Youth Movement, a grassroots movement of young Palestinians dedicated to the liberation of the their land and people.
• Nick Dearden, the director of Global Justice Now and a longstanding campaigner for justice for Palestinians.
• Jeff Halper, an Israeli peace activist who writes on how high-tech military equipment, designed and first deployed in Israel, is exported around the globe.
• Blanca Suarez, an activist with Workers for a Free Palestine, which organises mass actions against UK arms manufacturers exporting to Israel.
• Jonathan Purcell, senior public affairs officer at the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, which is holding the UK government to account over its arms export licencing to Israel.

In June, the Conservative government announced that it had granted over 100 new arms licences to Israel since October. Not a single arms licence has been rejected in this time, despite Israel currently being under investigation for genocide at the International Court of Justice. By continuing to arm Israel, even as its military targets civilians, bombing hospitals, schools and aid convoys in Gaza, the UK is complicit in these war crimes.

While many of our politicians are treating the situation in Gaza as if it was normal, refusing to take action to end arms sales to Israel, a huge movement has grown in the UK and around the world. Linked up with Palestinian movements for justice, students are occupying their universities and demanding divestment from arms profiteers. Trade unionists are picketing arms factories, directly shutting down production for days at a time. Millions have taken to the streets to demand a ceasefire, an end to arms exports to Israel and justice for Palestine.

Join us to discuss the history and implications of the arms trade with Israel, and how we can pressure the new government to end it.