PEACE campaigners are taking their protest about Israel’s genocide in Gaza to Welsh Labour’s conference in Llandudno tomorrow.

Left Labour MP for Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr Steve Witherden will join in calls for Welsh Labour to take urgent action to stop the genocide.

Protesters will set off at 11am from Llandudno train station and march to Venue Cymru for a rally outside the conference at noon.

Mr Witherden said: “As Israeli leaders openly vow to ‘wipe out’ Gaza, it’s clear they won’t stop until every drop of Gaza’s blood is spilled.

“Palestinians are being starved and bombed, while our own government fails in its legal and moral duties.

“I fully support urgent calls for a permanent ceasefire, full humanitarian access, an end to arms sales to Israel and a ban on trade with illegal settlements,” Mr Witherden said.

Stop the War Cymru’s David McKnight said: “We are calling on the Welsh Labour Party to oppose this insanity, to stand up for the rights of the Palestinian people, for international law, and for peace and justice.

“The party has a choice — it can either stand shoulder to shoulder with Palestinians, as it did with the people of South Africa against apartheid, or it can be remembered as a party that was complicit in genocide,” Mr McKnight said.

Other speakers addressing the rally will include Jewish Voice for Labour’s Alison Harris, Amira Nimerawi from Health Workers for Palestine and CND Cymru’s Dylan Lewis-Rowlands.

Stop the War Cymru has written to Welsh Senedd speaker Elin Jones protesting at Israel’s deputy ambassador Ms Daniella Grudsky-Ekstein’s meeting with Senedd members earlier this week.

The speaker was asked to condemn the meeting as a flagrant attempt to sanitise Israel’s image.

“The government that Ms Grudsky-Ekstein represents has no respect for human and democratic rights, and should not be offered an audience with members of the Senedd,” the letter said.

Stop the War also said the implication is that the Senedd is at best ignoring international law and at worst displaying contempt for it.

The letter also said it flies in the face of Wales being a nation of sanctuary, if the people creating refugees are being welcomed and legitimised more than the refugees themselves.