Stop Arming Israel! All out this Saturday 14th September in St Peter’s Square, 12pm!
337 days.
48 weeks.
11 months.
This is how long Palestinians in Gaza have been subjected to genocide by Israel. Over 40,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered, more than 20,000 being children. Palestinian livelihoods have been destroyed; their homes and families ripped apart. The sight of limbs has now become commonplace on the streets of Gaza.
18 years.
This is how long Palestinians in Gaza have been subjected to a brutal siege, wherein the land, air, sea and sky are controlled by Israel. Even prior to October 7th, Palestinians in Gaza were being killed, starved, denied freedom of movement and forced to suffer skyrocketing poverty and unemployment. For decades, they have endured slow suffocation. Now, their rapid slaughter is being live-streamed.
76 years.
This is how long Palestinians across Occupied Palestine have been subjected to the relentless Zionist settler-colonial entity, propped up by its colonial brethren, Britain and USA. Palestine is being decimated by artillery created on British soil. Britain’s active participation in apartheid, oppression and genocide is clearer than ever.
£500 million.
This is the minimum value of arms exports funnelled into the Zionist regime by Britain since 2008. Britain’s own legislation, namely the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria, states arms export licences must not be issued if there is a “clear risk” exports might be used in a “serious violation of international humanitarian law”.
Recently, Britain suspended just 30 of 350 arms export licences to Israel and amended its Open General Export Licence policy to exclude direct exports to Israel. Make no mistake, this changes nothing. Only a full and permanent arms embargo will lead to effective change. We must reject performative action. We must end the free-flow of Palestinian blood within British economy once and for all.
Rise up. Join us on Saturday 14th September in St Peter’s Square, 12pm!
