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The Danish news outlet Information, together with NGO Danwatch, revealed today that, for the first time, it has been possible to definitively confirm the use by Israel of an F-35 stealth fighter to carry out a specific attack in Gaza. The UK arms industry produces 15% of every F-35 made, including Israel’s 39 aircraft.
50 days of inexcusable delays. 50 days of complicity. 50 days of impunity for Israel’s crimes. On Labour’s 50th day in office, our organisations condemn the government’s failure to suspend export licences for arms transfers to Israel. Every day that this government fails to take action, the UK is materially and
The government must clarify its position on issuing new arms export licences to Israel. This failure to clearly articulate the current status of the UK’s arms export licencing regime compounds impunity for Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, and is against the public interest.
The UK government’s delay in making a decision on whether to stop arms exports to Israel is unconscionable. It is at total odds with Britain’s clear moral and legal responsibility not to render aid and assistance to Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, its unlawful military occupation of the West Bank including East
If we’re really serious about countering terrorism, then we need to accept the reality and the consequences of Britain’s colonialist past and present. We need to look at the terror Britain has caused and is creating across the world, and start making reparations for the damage we’ve done.
Arms manufacturers and fossil fuel companies will no longer be able to advertise on council-owned assets or offer sponsorships for events or partnerships in Scotland’s capital city. This means that relationships with arms companies will be prohibited as well as new contracts promoting ‘high carbon’ products. The call originally came from Scottish Greens Councillor Ben
This is clearly an attempt to repress and deter protests against arms companies - but this is an attempt that will fail.
Noah Hudson describes the experience of hosting the Arms Out Film Tour in his community of Hebden Bridge.
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