Ask your next MP to #StopArmingIsrael

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Hi John,

With election day fast approaching, we need to make sure that ending Israel’s assault on Gaza is a priority for the new parliament.

Since October, the British government has given its full political and military support to Israel, even as it carries out the most brutal collective punishment against the people of Gaza. Last week it was revealed that the UK has issued more than 100 arms export licences to Israel in that time – despite all the evidence of how they’re being used.(1)

With every parliamentary seat up for election on 4 July, now is an important moment to redouble our efforts to end the UK’s complicity in war crimes. That’s why we’re asking you to urgently contact your election candidates and ask them to back an arms embargo on Israel.

Will you write to your local MP candidates now and ask them to speak out on arms sales to Israel?

Yes, I’ll email my local candidates

In the last eight months an estimated 37,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military – including children as young as six months old.(2) The scale of the killing is such that the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories has concluded there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and the International Court of Justice has begun a formal investigation.(3)

Despite international censure, Israel has continued to escalate its violence against Palestinians. Health services have been repeatedly targeted, with three mass graves uncovered around hospitals in Gaza, prompting the UN, the US and the EU to call for a war crimes investigation.(4) Israel has also repeatedly attacked or blocked the supply of aid to Gaza with devastating effects.(5) This month the WHO warned of “famine-like” conditions in significant parts of the area.(6)

There is a very clear risk that sending weapons makes the UK complicit in war crimes. Yet our government has continued to supply arms to Israel. As Oxfam said this week, “If you knowingly sell weapons that are being used to kill thousands of innocent children and their parents, why would you continue?”(7)

Enough is enough. We need to make sure that our representatives stand firmly against the UK’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes. Will you write to your local candidates and demand they call for the UK to #StopArmingIsrael?

Email your local candidates

There is a strong democratic mandate for an arms embargo on Israel, with polls showing that a majority of voters in Britain support a ban.(8) We need to make sure our representatives know that – and act on it. Several governments, including Canada, Italy and Spain, have already taken steps to suspend arms sales to Israel.(9) It’s up to us to demand the UK acts too.

We desperately need to elect representatives who will campaign for an end to the war in Gaza, an arms embargo on Israel and lasting justice for Palestine. As the situation in Gaza deteriorates each day, there is no time to waste. Can we count on your support?

Yes I will email

In solidarity,

Meena Ghani
Campaigner at Global Justice Now

Notes

UK has issued 108 arms export licences to Israel since 7 October, The Guardian, 11 June 2024
Israel-Gaza war in maps and charts: Live tracker, Al Jazeera, 21 June 2024
ICJ hearings over Israel’s alleged breaches of the Genocide Convention a vital step to help protect Palestinian civilians, Amnesty International, 10 January 2024
Mass graves and body bags: al-Shifa hospital after Israel withdrew its forces, BBC, 5 June 2024
Israel government continues to block aid response despite ICJ genocide court ruling, Oxfam, 18 March 2024
Significant part of Gaza facing ‘famine-like conditions’, WHO says, Al Jazeera, 12 June 2024
UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel and aid to Gaza, says Oxfam chief, Guardian, 16 June 2024
Majority of voters in UK back banning arms sales to Israel, poll finds, Guardian, 3 April 2024
Canada stops arms sales to Israel: Who else has blocked weapons exports? Al Jazeera, 15 Feb 2024

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