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Dear MP
Re: Illegal Settlements in West Bank, Palestine
A recent statement by the UK Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Barbara Woodward, at the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East makes it very clear that Israel continues to violate international law without consequence.
Ambassador Bardara Woodward went on to demand that the UK government must do more to stop the systematic harassment, intimidation and violence on Palestinian civilians by Israeli settlers backed by the Israeli military.
The statement reiterated that any attempt to alter the geographic or demographic make-up of the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the use of force and outside of a negotiated solution is wholly unacceptable and illegal.
The UK Government calls Israeli settlements illegal and a barrier to peace and, yet in spite of their words, they have taken no action.
As my representative in Parliament, the actions I want you to urge the UK government to take are:
- Criminalise charitable organisations set up to help fund settlements e.g. Jewish National Fund
- Ban Israeli settlement goods from the UK markets e.g. Mehadrin, Miriam, Shoham, Galilee, Hadiklaim and Achdut-Achva where we import dates, mangos, avocados, tahini, halva and bakery products.
- Stop UK companies such as JCB, Opodo and Greenkote profiting from illegal Israeli settlements
- Demand that Israel reunify Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in line with 1967 borders and under the effective control of the Palestinian Authority.
- Place economic sanctions on Israel until it meets the1967 borders demand.
- Bring to justice those that forcibly remove Palestinian communities to make way for illegal Jewish-only settlements.
I look forward to your support in these actions.
Signed
northhampshirepsc.com 