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Foreign Secretary David Lammy at a press conference during a visit with US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to Kyiv in Ukraine, September 11, 2024
DAVID LAMMY has ducked demands from MPs that he sanction Israel’s fascist ministers.
In the latest evasion from the government over the war in Palestine, the Foreign Secretary today refused to answer demands that he act against Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotirch over their support for violent settlers in the West Bank.
Liberal Democrat MP Clive Jones told him that settler aggression was “one of the biggest barriers to peace,” while Labour’s Clive Betts warned that the threat of annexation of the West Bank, promoted by the duo, was “real.”
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
The people of Palestine need our solidarity in actions not words – trade unionists must give them our full support in their darkest hour, writes DANIEL KEBEDE
Sir Keir faces backlash for continuing to enable the genocide in Gaza
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions