Call on the government to Stop Arming Israel
Posted: 29th April 2024
To everyone that has taken action over the past six months calling on the government to Stop Arming Israel – thank you!
Please use our updated action to write to your MP again and keep up the pressure!
In these dark times it is the actions of ordinary people that bring hope of a peaceful and just future; taking to the streets in cities and communities across the length and breadth of the UK, challenging arms companies at your doorstep, and holding your elected representatives to account. You have shown our government what humanity looks like.
Thousands of you have emailed your MPs demanding that they take action to Stop Arming Israel. Thanks to your action an unprecedented 90 MPs signed EDM 177 and committed to suspending arms exports to Israel.
We are united in grief for the horror that Palestinians are enduring. Israel is using UK arms exports in a genocide against the Palestinian people.
There has never been more pressure on the government to stop arming Israel. Some of the most significant successes and developments of this UK wide campaign have been:
- Last week Al-Haq and GLAN were given permission by the High Court to challenge the government’s decision to keep arming Israel. Thank you to those that joined us outside court last Tuesday! CAAT will continue to support over the coming months.
- Over 600 legal experts have signed a letter demanding that the UK impose an arms embargo.
- In a letter signed by 134 cross-party MPs and Peers, Zarah Sultana MP wrote to the Foreign Secretary and Business and Trade Secretary urging the UK government to ban arms sales to Israel.
- Civil servants overseeing the export of arms to Israel are threatening legal action against the Government amid concerns they may be found to be in breach of international law by issuing arms export licences to Israel.
These wins are a direct result of the action that you have been taking. We demand our government ends its complicity in this genocide, ends impunity for war crimes, and stops arming Israel.
In solidarity,
Katie Fallon
Campaign Against Arms Trade
P.S. Thank you to everyone who supports CAAT, with your time, energy and money. If you haven’t done so already, please consider making a donation so we can keep campaigning!